Healthcare Matters

Healthcare with a side of cheesecake

Annals of Health Care

It was Saturday night, and I was at the local Cheesecake Factory with my two teen-age daughters and three of their friends. You may know the chain: a hundred and sixty restaurants with a catalogue-like menu that, when I did a count, listed three hundred and eight dinner items (including the forty-nine on the “Skinnylicious” menu), plus a hundred and twenty-four choices of beverage. It’s a linen-napkin-and-tablecloth sort of place, but with something for everyone. There’s wine and wasabi-crusted ahi tuna, but there’s also buffalo wings and Bud Light…

A quick fix?

7 ways to improve patient care through pharma

Despite all the innovations in the healthcare industry, the sad truth is that errors with wrongly prescribed medication are happening more than ever. Not only can this be costly for healthcare organizations, it can also have tragic consequences. Drug errors occur for any number of reasons but one thing that could help reduce them and improve patient care in general is communication between doctors and pharmaceutical companies…

Cheers to efficiency!

Improving the Nation’s Health with More Efficient Healthcare

The information displayed in GE’s Working in America data visualization helps us understand today’s economic situation. Let’s appreciate that the economy is driven by technological change and that the labor force not only contains the “vital few” who do the innovating and the new business formation (engineers and entrepreneurs) but also the army of talented and well-trained people who move the innovations forward. The IT industry could not have emerged without the genius engineers who could imagine holding information in silicate chips and then design and produce them in ever increasing capability; but it also required programmers who could communicate with computers by writing code.

From Spend Matters

Examining Services Procurement SOW Adoption: Learning and Industry Adoption

In looking beyond the state of SOW interest within RFPs, procurement organizations are keen to learn the potential of what SOW solutions can deliver. A combination of analyst firms, consultants, software companies and MSPs are providing an invaluable service by educating the market around the afterlife of what SOW enablement can provide…

From Spend Matters UK/Europe

Government Procurement Service Annual Report and Overview published – and Francis Maude wants to keep his job

Government Procurement Service – or at least the “trading” arm, Buying Solutions as was, released their annual report this week. It’s a fairly weighty document, but alongside it they also published a snappy 8-page “Performance Overview”, which gives a very readable summary of their activities. It’s heavy on bar charts and while there’s a lot of data in there, it is clearly presented – a good initiative to make the results more transparent and accessible to the casual reader.