Errors and Fallacies in Healthcare Productivity Measurements

Are you a Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist or Speech and Language Pathologist who is measured by your productivity? What if you were to discover that the means by which that productivity was calculated was wrong, and moreover, always understated? Read on, you’ll be surprised and perhaps more than a little angry. [...]

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Saving Time

Last week’s roll out of Google Instant search is an amazing testimony of small improvements in efficiency producing astounding results. With these seemingly modest, yet profound improvements to searching for information, Google suggests that they can save 11 hours of world wide time for every second; how amazing is that. [...]

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Where the money is.

According to a press release by ADVAMED (Advanced Medical Technology Association) over $380,000 was spend on lobbying efforts in Q2 alone. You might think this a large amount, yet it pales in comparison to GE who spend $7 million and of all things Pacific Gas and Electric the California-based utility company spent $15 million for all levels, municipal through federal government. Pfizer alone spent $2.25 million in Q2 [...]

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