Innovation
How the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Dulling the Point of All Those Healthcare Regulations
So, it took a deadly pandemic to expose how utterly useless most healthcare regulations are in ensuring that patients get the best possible care at the lowest possible cost when …
System Dynamics
Pandemic Preparedness 101: Creating Appropriate Surge Capacity
In 2014, Israel opened a parking garage that can be turned transformer-like into a 2,000-bed hospital. The architects hired by the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa designed the walls of …
Economics
COVID-19 Will Test the Ability of Healthcare CFOs to Manage Financial Risk
Chief financial officers around the world are scrambling to figure out how to manage the short-term economic impact and the long-term economic effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on their companies …
Outcomes
Adjusting to Life with Spreading Covid-19: Stay Safe and Be Productive
Covid-19 is stressing American society and us all in fundamental ways. The obvious and most important impact is the potential loss of life, particularly for the frail elderly and medically …
Economics
Hospitals at the Margins
Almost every hospital or health system that I’ve covered over the past 37 years as a healthcare business reporter claims to be failing financially or on the brink of financial …
