Category: System Dynamics

Economics

Feds Gave Hospitals a Little Extra for Their Trouble

I’m all in favor of helping those in need, and I’m fine with paying higher taxes to help… Read More

By David Burda June 1, 2022

Podcast: Reversing the Course of Clinical Burnout and Turnover 5/27/22

It’s not all about EHR systems and money. What can providers do to stop the flow of doctors… Read More

By David Burda May 27, 2022

That Giant Sucking Sound: Lost Patient Volume

As health systems report their earnings for the first quarter of 2022, the red ink is flowing in… Read More

By David W. Johnson May 26, 2022

Outcomes

Uncomfortably Numb to Patient Harm

I’d like to think that I have pretty decent search skills as a reporter. I usually can find… Read More

By David Burda May 25, 2022

Transforming Monterey County, California, with Co-opetition

Creating Cooperative Relationships with Traditional Competitors Examples abound: Apple and Samsung; DHL and UPS; Ford and GM, Google… Read More

By Allen Weiss May 24, 2022

Overcoming Medical Orthodoxy (Part 4): Retooling Clinicians for “New Medicine”

Author Note: This is the final article in a four-part series on reinventing medical education and clinician training…. Read More

By David W. Johnson and David B. Nash, MD, MBA May 19, 2022

Overcoming Medical Orthodoxy (4-Part Series)

This series looks at ways forward-thinking health systems are preparing clinicians to meet the demands of New Medicine… Read More

By David W. Johnson May 19, 2022

Policy

Capitalism, Perversions, and Health Utilities

The collision of capitalism, healthcare, and a government payment system has produced perversions in the healthcare system that… Read More

By Kerry Weems May 17, 2022

Policy

Hospital + Doctors = Higher Prices

I told you. Beware the vertically integrated employed physician. Maybe now you’ll believe me. A new study in Health… Read More

By David Burda May 11, 2022

System Dynamics