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Exploring the health care system of tomorrow. Richard Wittrup, Blogger. Comments are encouraged and appreciated. Just click on the word COMMENTS at the end of each posting. Friday, October 29, 2004. Still No Vision for IT in Health Care. The introduction to the H&HN report talks about the CEO shaping the direction of.information technology for the organization. That is not what the airline executive and Sam Walton did. They shaped new and previously impossible directions for doing the work of...An exampl...
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Exploring the health care system of tomorrow. Richard Wittrup, Blogger. Comments are encouraged and appreciated. Just click on the word COMMENTS at the end of each posting. Sunday, April 25, 2004. Preventing Useless Cost in Health Care Whose Job? The following was composed some weeks ago but seems somehow not to have gotten posted. On re-reading, it still seems worthy so here it is:. The question I would ask is, who now is responsible for taking action in light of this new information? The NYT article di...
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Exploring the health care system of tomorrow. Richard Wittrup, Blogger. Comments are encouraged and appreciated. Just click on the word COMMENTS at the end of each posting. Wednesday, June 24, 2015. D to S time. If, God forbid, you should have a heart attack, the chances of your living or dying is determined more by door-to-stent (D to S) time than by the relative competence of the physicians who treat you. If not the patient either dies or is left with a badly damaged heart. Some years ago, the American...
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Exploring the health care system of tomorrow. Richard Wittrup, Blogger. Comments are encouraged and appreciated. Just click on the word COMMENTS at the end of each posting. Thursday, May 13, 2004. No Wonder Reform Comes so Hard. The posting below on Laparoscopic surgery for colon cancer prompts me to report that Mrs. Wittrup (Marilyn) underwent the same type of surgery last month to repair a torn rotator cuff. The orthopedist was personable, attentive, and, according to anything we can learn, highly comp...
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Exploring the health care system of tomorrow. Richard Wittrup, Blogger. Comments are encouraged and appreciated. Just click on the word COMMENTS at the end of each posting. Saturday, January 31, 2004. Information Technology and Health Care Still a Poor Fit. It also occurred to me that the airlines were not simply automating their established routines. Instead, they were using computer technology to perform a function in a new and more efficient way that would be impossible without it. Dan Ford’s story el...
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Exploring the health care system of tomorrow. Richard Wittrup, Blogger. Comments are encouraged and appreciated. Just click on the word COMMENTS at the end of each posting. Friday, February 27, 2004. Leapfrog The Need for a Better Approach. The report is available at http:/ www.hschange.com. In order to do that, there are three other issues that will have to be faced:. Freedom of choice will be compromised for employees who are beneficiaries of employer-sponsored health insurance. Healthcare Economy Plan...
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Exploring the health care system of tomorrow. Richard Wittrup, Blogger. Comments are encouraged and appreciated. Just click on the word COMMENTS at the end of each posting. Wednesday, July 28, 2004. Responding to the posting on the article by Porter and Teisberg in the Harvard Business Review (advocating that the health care market concentrate competition around particular treatments), Don Arwine continues to be concerned about the movement to specialty hospitals. Here is his comment:. Making use of mode...
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Exploring the health care system of tomorrow. Richard Wittrup, Blogger. Comments are encouraged and appreciated. Just click on the word COMMENTS at the end of each posting. Friday, August 29, 2003. Health Care System Redesign and Politics - Oil and Water. An editorial by former Speaker Newt Gingrich that appeared in the August 18, 2003 issue of Modern Healthcare illustrates the limited contribution government can make to the necessary redesign of our system of health care. Wednesday, August 27, 2003.
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Exploring the health care system of tomorrow. Richard Wittrup, Blogger. Comments are encouraged and appreciated. Just click on the word COMMENTS at the end of each posting. Tuesday, August 31, 2004. The Al Qaeda Obsession. If you read the following posting through to the end, you will see that it relates to the health care theme of this blog. Well, sort of anyway. 9/11 has been given the status of continuing threat by a terrorist entity known as Al Qaeda. The fact that nobody quite knows what Al Qaed...
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Exploring the health care system of tomorrow. Richard Wittrup, Blogger. Comments are encouraged and appreciated. Just click on the word COMMENTS at the end of each posting. Tuesday, May 26, 2015. I recently finished reading The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee. It is the story of the study and treatment of cancer one of the most stubborn scientific puzzles ever faced. That seems to be changing. The article also said that New cases are presented at weekly cancer conferences.and a multid...
