Open the New York Times last weekend and there were two articles concerning healthcare quality in the United States. The first recounts the efforts by New York State government to close or consolidat… more →
RTCrawford's Weblogrcrawford wrote 1 year ago: Open the New York Times last weekend and there were two articles concerning healthcare quality in th … more →
rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: In my Quality Controls class, a number of students have been debating the merits and detraction of a … more →
rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: Over the last several weeks, I’ve been hard at work with the start of the new school year and … more →
rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: The practice of balance billing is increasing, according to this Los Angeles Times article. Balanced … more →
rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: As time permits, I am posting final exam papers written by selected students of mine (with their con … more →
rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: The common churning of patients/customers between insurance companies every few years suggest that c … more →
rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: CNBC’s Mike Huckman is reporting on an Ernst & Young survey of senior executives in the pharmace … more →
rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: A short time ago I entered a posting in this blog linking Simon de Beauvoir’s concept of “The Other” … more →
rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: If you work in healthcare leadership, you live the mantra of “The Boomers are Coming, the Boomers ar … more →
rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: Medical error deaths in Pennsylvania. We are all customers with something of a common experience. On … more →
rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: In the earlier “Luddites” piece, I argue that the problem of healthcare inflation is not … more →
rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: Testifying before the Senate Budget Committee on January 31, 2008, Congressional Budget Office Direc … more →
rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: Medicare / Medicaid Budget Proposal. After several years of consecutive budget cuts by the federal g … more →
rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: An earlier posting, titled “The Outlier’s Power — Why We Emerged from the Caves, … more →
rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: In 2000, the state of Washington deregulated the healthcare insurance industry. Individual patients … more →
rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: The rising and unsustainable cost of health care inflation has prompted cutbacks in state funding of … more →
rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: IS MARKETING THE SILVER BULLET OF HEALTH CARE? Robert T. Crawford, MBA Adjunct Lecturer University o … more →
rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: A former student of mine is a hospitalist in Boone, North Carolina. Among all the students I have ta … more →
rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: The San Francisco Chronicle indicates that California is now the second state to provide hospital pr … more →