Public Option: Do You Feel Lucky?

Here’s the facts:

Not all hospitals, clinics and physicians are equally talented and knowledgeable in the delivery of healthcare services; here are some which are simply better than others, and experience matters. It’s actually pretty difficult to kill someone.  The human body is amazing in its ability to adjust to changes, whether it is the [...]

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Improving Labor Efficiency in Healthcare

This site is focused upon efficiency as a contributing solution to the cost of providing healthcare services. Efficiency alone won’t carry all the water needed to address the cost of healthcare, but it will make a profound difference in the scope and amount of services provided per dollar spent.  Last year I began a study based [...]

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Texting and Efficiency – This is Just The Beginning

“This message of twenty four words and 138 total characters takes you less than five seconds to consume, that is why texting is popular.”

According to a University of Pennsylvania study, the speed with which we consume information from our eyes to the visual cortex in the brain is approximately 10 megabytes per second, we hear at [...]

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First What then Who, Managing Personal Healthcare

This is a personal, first hand story about our healthcare system and the choices patients have to make. As the discussion regarding nationalized healthcare escalates you will certainly hear heard breaking accounts of pain, loss and cost. This is a true story of choices, and the ability to make them. [...]

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Details on the Healthcare Labor Force

Since my last post some time ago, I’ve been working on a piece that I hope will better explain what is happening in the healthcare labor economy and its contrast to what is going on outside healthcare.

Certainly much has changed in the general economy over the past six months, and more recently some exceptionally [...]

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