Innovation

Tufts Medical Center recently announced that the prestigious Ellen M. Zane Award for Visionary Leadership will be presented to athenahealth Inc. Chairman and CEO Jonathan Bush at the 2016 Working Wonders for Tufts Medical Center benefit event, on Wednesday, March…

In support of the company’s therapy innovation strategy, Medtronic recenlty announced it has acquired Aircraft Medical, a privately held medical device company based in Edinburgh, Scotland, that develops affordable, handheld high-quality video laryngoscopes used by anesthesiologists and critical care professionals…

Tulsa (Okla.) Spine & Specialty Hospital. The Tulsa Spine & Specialty Hospital was founded in December 2002. The hospital features 10 spine physicians who treat a variety of conditions of the central nervous system and spine. The physician-owned Tulsa Spine…

Penn State Milton S. Hershey (Pa.) Medical Center. Not only did U.S. News & World Report rank Penn State Hershey as high-performing in adult neurology and neurosurgery for 2015-16, it also ranked the hospital No. 44 nationally for pediatric neurology…

If health organizations really want to move the needle when it comes to sustainable design, they need to truly commit to creating buildings that can stand longer tests of time.

These individuals (and one company) have ignored, challenged or expressed frustration with the established way of doing things in healthcare. They have shared unconventional, if not unpopular, opinions and perspectives. In this case, rebel is a close cousin to "disruptive…

Tuesday, January 27, 2015 | 2:00 PM CST Overview: With the move from volume to value-based healthcare delivery it is now more important than ever for Healthcare organizations to understand how lean strategies can help them achieve their desired outcomes…

Last week, a fellow editor couldn't take it any more. She had to get something off her chest. "You know what system I hate writing about?" She paused her typing, turned to me and named a newly formed health system in the Midwest,…

Healthcare has a lot of problems, and oh, if only problem-solving were simple. When we talk about creating solutions to problems in healthcare, the 'how' is becoming just as important has the 'what.' Often, the question is a helpful one.…

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…