What if what you think you know, isn’t so? Version-1

A few years ago I worked at a company that provided us with sales and revenue targets each year. Sales for what we “booked” this year, and revenue from what was sold earlier, and now installed.  The problem, I soon discovered, is that we never met our revenue number, not once for over 4 years. [...]

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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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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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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 Everything Else You Do In Life

Last June, the Senate Judiciary Committee began hearings on texting. Included in the discussion were executives from AT&T, Verizon along with othere the focus of which was the nature of charging for text messages. Though the hearings were interesting, the real headline is in the data surrounding texting itself

In 2008 over one trillion text [...]

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