Health Care
Health Care
As biotechnology has continued to advance, some eagerly anticipate the creation of new intellectual property and a new bioeconomy. On the other hand, some fear that the desire for profit is leading to the unethical...
Many healthcare facilities struggle with providing quality healthcare in an efficient manner, so that the patient is discharged to the home or to the next level of care as quickly and as medically appropriate as...
It will not come as news to most Americans that the United States health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer people can afford to pay for medical care and fewer businesses can afford to provide...
In Beyond the Gift Shop, Mindy Thompson-Banko explores the collaboration between two very different industries—retail and healthcare— and what is required for them to work together and create something...
In the age of consumerism in healthcare, hospitals must reexamine their traditional practices and provide greater sensitivity and responsiveness to patient preferences. In Reinventing the Patient Experience...
The failure to execute is a common problem in healthcare. Faced with a rapidly changing business environment, many progressive healthcare delivery organizations are now striving to become “high performance” health...
The healthcare industry has undergone profound change during recent decades. The aging of the population, new treatment options, changes in technology, and access to information once available only to physicians, have...
In Seven Strategies to Improve Your Bottom Line, E. Preston Gee outlines different tools and strategies that can help healthcare executives cut costs and improve their hospital’s efficiency and overall...
In Partnership of Equals, Peter McGinn discusses the various ways in which CEOs and board members can productively work together to resolve conflict and make a better, more effective healthcare...
While hospital administrators and doctors often have different perspectives on patient care – and consequently take divergent approaches to it – they share the common goal of providing quality care to patients....
