By Tom, on July 8th, 2009%
“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 roughly one . . . → Read More: Texting and Efficiency – This is Just The Beginning
By Tom, on November 24th, 2008%
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.
. . . → Read More: First What then Who, Managing Personal Healthcare
By Tom Coss, on November 16th, 2008%
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 dramatic and . . . → Read More: Details on the Healthcare Labor Force
By Tom Coss, on May 17th, 2008%
This blog began around the compelling evidence mounting around the shortage of RN’s. The graph below is another view the result of a National Institute of Health publication of 2004, showing the demand for nurses (green line) against the supply based upon various assumptions on increasing supply of graduates. Still this isn’t the story, but rather . . . → Read More: Three Things All Nurses Should Know
By Tom Coss, on May 4th, 2008%
Discussed in earlier posts, is a growing concern over the increasing demand for healthcare services, and shrinking number of providers. On April 14th of 2008, the Institute of Medicine published an exceptional report entitled “Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce”.
. . . → Read More: Institute of Medicine Report on Heatlh Care Workforce