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Healthcare Camouflage

rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: Open the New York Times last weekend and there were two articles concerning healthcare quality in th … more →

Tags: Healthcare, Healthcare Newsletters, Quality Improvement in Health Care

Tiered Healthcare System?

rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: In my Quality Controls class, a number of students have been debating the merits and detraction of a … more →

Tags: General, Newsletters, Quality Improvement in Health Care, Tiered Healthcare System

A New Blog is Born

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 →

Tags: Healthcare Newsletters, Newsletters

Balance Billing -- Grief for Everyone

rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: The practice of balance billing is increasing, according to this Los Angeles Times article. Balanced … more →

Tags: Strategic Management, Executive leadership, Balance Billing, health costs, Health Insurance, Healthcare

The Strategic Helix of CQI -- Sherika Hill

rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: As time permits, I am posting final exam papers written by selected students of mine (with their con … more →

Tags: Quality Improvement in Health Care, Strategic Management, General, Executive leadership, performance psychology, Continuous Quality Improvement, Healthcare, Sherika Hill, Helix of CQI

"Tragedy" of Coverage for Preventative Medicine

rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: The common churning of patients/customers between insurance companies every few years suggest that c … more →

Tags: Strategic Management, Health Insurance, patient churning, preventative medicine, Tragedy of the Commons

Are CFOs Taking Over Healthcare?1 comment

rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: CNBC’s Mike Huckman is reporting on an Ernst & Young survey of senior executives in the pharmace … more →

Tags: Quality Improvement in Health Care, healthcare marketing, Strategic Management, Investments, cfos, Chief Financial Officers, Healthcare finances, Pharma

De Beauvoir Revisted ... and Explained

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 →

Tags: Quality Improvement in Health Care, Executive leadership, Healthcare Policy, practitioner leadership, Quality Improvement, simon de beauvoir

Will the US Healthcare System Implode?1 comment

rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: If you work in healthcare leadership, you live the mantra of “The Boomers are Coming, the Boomers ar … more →

Tags: General, Healthcare Policy, Medicare, Medicaid, Healthcare Insolvency, patent protection, Pharmaceutical Industry, Medical Supplies Industry, Medical Equipment Industry

Newsletter -- February 7, 2008

rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: Medical error deaths in Pennsylvania. We are all customers with something of a common experience. On … more →

Tags: Healthcare Newsletters, Quality Improvement in Health Care, Strategic Management, Executive leadership, Newsletters, CQI, Quality Improvement, Healthcare Costs, Six Sigma

Eat 'em if You Got 'em -- Smoke 'em, too -- Why The Fat Chick and the Marlborough Man Are Saving Healthcare Dollars

rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: In the earlier “Luddites” piece, I argue that the problem of healthcare inflation is not … more →

Tags: Quality Improvement in Health Care, Newsletters, Healthcare Costs, smoking, obesity, Public Health

The Ludites Were Right -- Technology Costs Threaten to Bankrupt US Healthcare5 comments

rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: Testifying before the Senate Budget Committee on January 31, 2008, Congressional Budget Office Direc … more →

Tags: Quality Improvement in Health Care, Strategic Management, congressional budget office, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Policy, Peter R. Orszag, public health policy, Senate Budget Committee, technology

Newsletter – February 3, 2008

rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: Medicare / Medicaid Budget Proposal. After several years of consecutive budget cuts by the federal g … more →

Tags: Healthcare Newsletters, Strategic Management, Executive leadership, performance psychology, leadership, Charles Manz, Henry Sims, Innovation, Medicare

The Critical Mass of Collective Intelligence

rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: An earlier posting, titled “The Outlier’s Power — Why We Emerged from the Caves, … more →

Tags: Quality Improvement in Health Care, Executive leadership, performance psychology, Quality Improvement, Creativity, Healthcare Policy, Innovation, Self-Leadership

Is Healthcare a Free Market? Lessons From Seattle.4 comments

rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: In 2000, the state of Washington deregulated the healthcare insurance industry. Individual patients … more →

Tags: Strategic Management, General, Newsletters, Healthcare, Health Policy, Healthcare Crisis, Government Policy

California: The Problem in a Nut Shell -- The Looming Crisis of Healthcare

rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: The rising and unsustainable cost of health care inflation has prompted cutbacks in state funding of … more →

Tags: Strategic Management, Health Policy, Healthcare Crisis, Government Policy

IS MARKETING THE SILVER BULLET OF HEALTH CARE?

rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: IS MARKETING THE SILVER BULLET OF HEALTH CARE? Robert T. Crawford, MBA Adjunct Lecturer University o … more →

Tags: healthcare marketing, Strategic Management, ARS Medicinea, Dr. Filipe Basto MD, socialized medicine, Healthcare Policy

Healthcare Recruitment in Small Town Settings -- HR & Marketing

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 →

Tags: Healthcare Newsletters, Quality Improvement in Health Care, healthcare marketing, Strategic Management, Executive leadership, CQI, Continuous Quality Improvement, Rural HealthCare, physician recruitment

Government Reporting Provider Pricing to Reduce Indigent Care Costs

rcrawford wrote 1 year ago: The San Francisco Chronicle indicates that California is now the second state to provide hospital pr … more →

Tags: Strategic Management, Executive leadership, Robert Crawford, Healthcare, Unintended Consequences, indigent care, price reporting, public health policy, trend identification


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