If this headline caught your attention, that was my intention. Certainly the 1990s, at least today, aren’t viewed as a particularly innovative time in healthcare. The 90s brought the rise (and fall) of managed care, a rush to employ (and…
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“We are living in a world where average is not an option. In an era of hyper-competition…the only way to stand out from the crowd is to do something different.” The importance of differentiating yourself and your organization from competitors…
Today, the use of predictive analytics by Internet retailers is ubiquitous. Amazon was one of the first to use it widely, creating algorithms to recommend books consumers might like based on their previous orders and ratings. Other bookstores, like Barnes…
Lean and Six Sigma aren't the answer to improving your hospital. Being like Toyota is, but that doesn't mean the answer is gemba walks and value stream maps. Don't let the consultants fool you. The Lean approach to process…
There's a theme arising in the various conversations I've had about leadership lately: The front-line employees are the ones with the real power to transform an organization, leadership just guides them. This, of course, is an intuitive concept, but one…
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What emotional response does your healthcare brand trigger for patients? Medicine X, a conference hosted by Stanford on emerging healthcare technology, took place last weekend on the university's campus. Among the speakers — which included Amir Dan Rubin, president…
Irving, Texas-based Novation and Irvine, Calif.-based Edwards Lifesciences have entered a distribution agreement providing Novation members with Edwards' heart valve therapies.
High-reliability organizations don't implement best practices. They continually make new best practices. Healthcare is an industry obsessed with best practices. And for good reason. Our costs are growing almost uncontrollably, and quality is highly variable from hospital to hospital, department…
Irving, Texas-based Novation has awarded an Innovative Technology Contract to AngioDynamics for its minimally invasive medical devices.
If you near a large metropolitan area, you've no doubt heard a lot about Uber, the ride sharing/taxi competitor, recently. Uber, which launched in 2010 in San Francisco, allows users to book a private — "black," the terminology used by…