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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Medical Practice and 20% of Income from Cash

In regard to portability and ease-of-use, competing with a pen and piece of paper is difficult.  We all know how a pen works, paper is lite and is easily moved about – there is no “down time” or “learning curve”; in addition, pharmaceutical and medical device companies will gladly give you all the pen’s you [...]

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Commentariolus Medicus

As legend has it, while being arrested for his believes (based upon evidence) that the Sun, rather than the Earth, was the center of the universe; Nicholas Copernicus said of his captors:  “I cannot admire enough those who accepted the heliocentric (earth as the center of the universe) doctrine despite the evidence of their senses.” [...]

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Repricing in America

I’ve been bothered in the best possible way by a comment made by Richard Davis, President and Chief Executive Officer of U.S. Bancorp. In almost a throw away fashion Richard told an audience of business executives in Orange County California, that the economy is going through a process of “repricing ” downward.

Clearly we know [...]

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