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BusinessWeek September 24, 2009 Tim Brown |
Change By Design In his new book, Change by Design, the CEO of design shop IDEO shows how even hospitals can transform the way they work by tapping frontline staff to engineer change. |
Fast Company April 2006 Chuck Salter |
A Prescription for Innovation The Mayo Clinic's new SPARC lab is driving experimentation at the frontier of health care. How? By getting physicians to think more like designers. |
CIO February 1, 2003 Christopher Koch |
Off the Charts An electronic medical records system at the University of Illinois Medical Center did more than transform communication, it converted the least likely users into technology believers. |
CIO November 1, 2000 Susannah Patton |
The Rx Files Hospitals are prescribing healthy doses of IT to divert costly and sometimes fatal medication errors... |
BusinessWeek June 23, 2011 Drew Armstrong |
The Simplest Rx: Check on Your Patient Doctors and insurers cut costs by sharing information. |
CIO August 1, 2003 Sarah D. Scalet |
Paperless Medicine Saving Money, Saving Lives Health-care CIOs face intense pressure to install electronic medical records and order-entry systems, in spite of physician resistance and large up-front costs. Here's how early adopters are overcoming the obstacles. |
BusinessWeek May 17, 2004 Bruce Nussbaum |
The Power Of Design From its inception, IDEO has designed hundreds of products and won more design awards over the past decade than any other firm. Now, this company is transferring its ability to create consumer products into designing consumer experiences in services, from shopping and banking to health care and wireless communication. |
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 |
The Doctor: Dr. Lauren Koniaris Online prescribing and record-keeping free her up for patients. |
Job Journal May 2, 2010 Arianna Jordan |
Nursing Careers come in Many Settings In sorting out your options for a nursing career, start with where you'd like to work. |
Fast Company September 1, 2007 Ellen McGirt |
Fast-Food Medicine Retail health clinics are dotting the landscape like Starbucks, frustrating doctors but delighting patients. Is this the beginning of the answer to our national health-care crisis? |
InternetNews January 15, 2010 |
Hard Drive Theft Nets Health Data of Thousands Breach of protocol leads to the potential loss of Kaiser Permanente patient data in California. |
BusinessWeek January 31, 2005 Carol Marie Cropper |
Between You, The Doctor, And The PC More physicians and hospitals are putting their medical records online |
BusinessWeek June 25, 2009 Catherine Arnst |
The Family Doctor: A Remedy for Health-Care Costs? How making primary-care physicians the center of America's health-care system could drive down costs. |
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 Timothy J. Mullaney |
Saving Lives Shouldn't Be This Hard The health-care system doesn't give patients the tools or the support they need to make confident decisions about choosing doctors, treatments, or hospitals. |
BusinessWeek June 11, 2007 Catherine Arnst |
The Right Cure For Ailing Elder Care? Nurse practitioners could save the nation money - while providing quality service. |
Job Journal June 24, 2007 Julia Hollister |
RNs Take Their Pick of Perks, Pay & Programs In short supply, RNs enjoy signing bonuses and generous perks. |
Science News March 28, 2009 |
Science Past For March 28, 1959 Thoughts on patient resocialization in a mental hospital during the 1950s. |
HBS Working Knowledge April 8, 2009 Deborah Blagg |
Clay Christensen on Disrupting Health Care Professor Clayton Christensen suggests some disruptive innovations that will make health care both more affordable and more effective in the future. |
Fast Company Elizabeth Segran |
Doctor Visits Are So 2014 For scrappy startups, going up against the health care system sometimes seems like an impossible task. But fortunately, major players in the industry, such as McKesson, are pushing for change as well |
Fast Company April 2012 Christina Chaey |
Srikant Iyer Streamlines Patient Care In Hectic Emergency Rooms This health-care innovator uses a different kind of triage system to identify who is very ill and who is mildly ill, keeping emergency room care moving. |
Entrepreneur July 2002 Chris Penttila |
How's Your Health? When health care is healthy, it's the industry to be in -- and the current chaos in the sector may be the opening you need. |
Managed Care May 2003 Bob Carlson |
Shared Appointments Improve Efficiency in the Clinic Do more with less -- that's what we all must learn. In the physician's office, when patients share their doctor's time, everyone benefits. |
Managed Care December 2003 Martin Sipkoff |
Health Plans Begin To Address Chronic Care Management As with so much else in health care, observing protocols, analyzing data, and rethinking benefit designs are important. |
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2014 Ben Comer |
Take as Directed: From Force to Finesse in Promoting Adherence Healthcare players tout patient education and engagement as the keys to better drug adherence rates. Patients agree, as long as that translates to convenient and affordable access to therapy. |
Managed Care June 2002 Frank Diamond |
A Look at Kaiser CEO's Legacy: Faith in Quality Never Waned David M. Lawrence, MD, MPH, guided the country's largest not-for-profit health plan through the tumultuous managed care decade. |
BusinessWeek June 12, 2006 Michael Arndt |
Big Pharma's Nurse Will See You Now Drug companies are hiring RNs to educate patients - and boost marketing. |
The Motley Fool September 2, 2004 Rich Smith |
Translating Your Doctor Bill A lawsuit is currently in the works aiming to overturn an unfunded federal mandate that requires federally funded hospitals, clinics, and doctors to make translators available to patients who speak limited English. |
CIO August 1, 2005 Susannah Patton |
An End to Medical Forms? Patients could keep all their medical information online using iHealthRecord, a new service that Medem (a joint venture of the American Medical Association and six other medical societies) introduced in May. |
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 |
The Nurse: Melanie Weigeshoff Why the "laptop-on-a-stick" is a hard-pressed R.N.'s best friend. |
BusinessWeek March 4, 2010 Clayton Christensen |
Health Care: The Simple Solution When it comes to reform, we should drop the public-private debate. The way to cut costs is to put care and insurance in the same bed. |
BusinessWeek November 20, 2008 |
Financial Triage Innovative ways that hospitals are looking at patient finances. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Robert N. Charette |
Dying for Data A comprehensive system of electronic medical records promises to save lives and cut health care costs -- but how do you build one? The many technical, social, and political issues are also formidable. |
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2005 Lena Chow |
Docs of Shanghai They're short on status, pay, and respect, but China's young doctors hold keys to the world's fastest growing pharmaceutical market. |
The Motley Fool January 26, 2007 Jack Uldrich |
Big Blue Will See You Now A new medical-records search engine could streamline medical services and improve patient health. This system is just one more reason IBM makes a great blue chip investment. |
HBS Working Knowledge November 23, 2009 Martha Lagace |
Management's Role in Reforming Health Care An interview with HBS professor Richard M.J. Bohmer, MD, and an excerpt from his book Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care. |
Managed Care July 2002 |
Money isn't everything Physicians are fairly happy with their incomes, but unhappy with the number of hours they have to work, as well as with the ancillary duties involved in practicing medicine, according to a survey. |
IndustryWeek November 1, 2003 Patricia Panchak |
Lean Health Care? It Works! A medical researcher has real-life proof that a TPS (Toyota Production System) approach to health care slashes costs for all involved, and a group of Iowa manufacturers is making it happen. |
The Motley Fool February 22, 2007 Jack Uldrich |
Intel Frees the COWs A new tablet PC for hospitals could lead to bigger dividends for Intel. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2011 Suzanne Sataline |
Code Blue? Many financial planners say their physician clients are fretting that they won't have enough money saved to retire on schedule, and that their savings won't hold through their elderly years. |
Salon.com June 19, 2000 Lisa Ochs |
In the shadow of a glass mountain One nurse observes how the fear of lawsuits causes healthcare professionals to neglect patients. |
The Motley Fool February 22, 2008 Brian Orelli |
Google in Your Medicine Cabinet Does Google have what the others don't as it moves one step closer to launching its health-care website? |
InternetNews March 5, 2008 Susan Kuchinskas |
Eyeing the Personal Health Portal Can Google and Microsoft transform health care the way they changed business? |
Managed Care August 2002 |
Patients' unpaid bills come from physicians, hospitals With health care costs rising and the number of uninsured Americans close to 40 million, physicians and hospitals are feeling the pinch. |
American Journal of Nursing June 2011 Lisa M. Black |
Original Research: Tragedy into Policy: A Quantitative Study of Nurses' Attitudes Toward Patient Advocacy Activities In 2007 and 2008, 115 patients were found to be either certainly or presumptively infected with the hepatitis C virus through the reuse of contaminated medication vials at two southern Nevada endoscopy clinics. |
BusinessWeek September 25, 2006 Michael Mandel |
What's Really Propping Up The Economy Since 2001, the health-care industry has added 1.7 million jobs. The rest of the private sector? None. |
Managed Care March 2005 Frank Diamond |
Kaiser's Asthma Outcomes Will Take Your Breath Away The company's Mid-Atlantic States Region has seen impressive savings since launching a disease management program for asthma. |
BusinessWeek June 9, 2009 John Carey |
Giving Patients the Data They Need A growing effort by doctors, insurers, and politicians helps people make better-informed medical decisions |
BusinessWeek November 12, 2009 Catherine Arnst |
10 Ways to Cut Health-Care Costs Right Now Employers and hospitals don't have to wait for Congress to address inefficiencies and waste. |
IDB America March 2004 Christina MacCulloch |
Medicine first How an emergency drug-distribution program is revitalizing the role of local clinics in Argentina's low-income neighborhoods |
Managed Care March 2008 Kathryn J. Alexander |
Health Plans Embrace Retail Clinics Convenient care clinics, as they like to be called, are spreading quickly because members and plans like them |