I’ve spent more than 30 years in health care and have run the gamut from non-profit to for-profit, from rural to urban, from clinical care to management, from doctor to patient. Along the way, I’ve been exposed to all sorts of incentives. And, looking back, I have to say that beyond the basics of fundamental financial security, […]
Author: Mike Magee
As Bush shifts rhetoric on global warming, the U.S. remains #1 in total millions of metric tons of carbon emitted into the air. Loyalists are now beginning to point the finger at China, as if to say, “They are worse than we are.” It’s true that China isn’t doing that great — with projected annual increases […]
When you have as much money as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the question becomes “How do you spend it wisely?” The foundation’s answer? Prove that a strategy or approach works. But to prove it, you have to define the outcomes, then measure them. And as anyone who’s been in the quality management business over the […]
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Brailer Comes Home
Dr. David Brailer, former Health IT Czar for the Bush Administration, has literally and figuratively “come home.” While part of the administration, with limited resources, he focused on the need for a coordinated national medical information infrastructure. It (perhaps by necessity) reinforced traditional power silos and an interventional system centered on a primary loop for […]
So I opened the Sports section of The New York Times one day last week, and in the bottom right corner was an article titled “Detour on the Scott Boras Express.” Scott Boras is deemed the “most powerful agent in baseball,” but what caught my eye wasn’t the text but the accompanying photo of one of Mr. […]
In a prior Health Politics program, I outlined the major disconnect between supply and demand in organ transplantation. The popular press since that time has shed light on the selling of organs and the various ethical and moral issues triggered by this often elicit practice. Jim Tosone, avid subscriber to Health Politics and expert at […]
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The Moral of the Boeing Story
If you’ve seen the title of this week’s Health Politics program, you might be thinking to yourself: what can health care learn from Boeing? Seems a little out there, right? But as you’ll see when you watch the video, the idea isn’t all that crazy. Industries outside of health care go through transformational change all […]
