Category: Innovation

Pandemic Problem Solving: Building the Ship While Sailing the COVID-19 Tidal Wave

An Interview with CHI Franciscan’s Lab Director Tracy Bradfield When the pandemic struck, the clinical laboratories at CHI… Read More

By David W. Johnson March 30, 2021

Innovation

4sight Friday | Meet Healthcare Revolutionary Thompson Aderinkomi | The Gospel of Scientific Wellness | From Amazon to Grand Rounds to Ginger

Read 3/26/2021 Edition here. Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Columns here. Find 4sight Health… Read More

By David Burda March 26, 2021

Economics

How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think: 10 Questions with Thompson Aderinkomi

Welcome to the second installment of 4sight Health’s new monthly interview series, How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think. The interview… Read More

By David Burda March 25, 2021

Consumerism

Pandemic Threats to Patient Safety

ECRI’s latest annual list of the top 10 patient safety concerns got a lot of attention when it… Read More

By David Burda March 24, 2021

Innovation

Getting Scientific About Wellness: Introducing Lee Hood

Three things will last forever — faith, hope and love — and the greatest of these is love…. Read More

By David W. Johnson March 23, 2021

Economics

Sludgebusters

Last Thursday’s Dispatch profiled how medical bill hassles cost workers and their employers an astounding $144 billion each… Read More

By David W. Johnson March 9, 2021

COVID-19

Pandemic Problem Solving: COVID Couldn’t Defeat Virtua’s Supply Chain. It Made It Stronger

An Interview with Bill Christie, AVP Support Services The pandemic tested the supply chain at Virtua Health like… Read More

By David W. Johnson March 9, 2021

Rethinking COVID-19 and Healthcare Consumerism

One of my working theories is that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated healthcare consumerism as peoples’ fear of… Read More

By David Burda March 8, 2021

Consumerism

What Healthcare AI Adoption and the Old Kiddieland Amusement Park Have in Common

Exactly one year ago, I wrote a column called “How Can Healthcare Avoid Screwing Up AI’s Potential?” A lot… Read More

By David Burda March 4, 2021

Innovation