Addressing Patient Wait-Time Woes
It's no secret that some patients get upset at long wait times…
The Role of a Certified Nurse-Midwife [INFOGRAPHIC]
What Is a Certified Nurse-Midwife?Certified nurse-midwives are licensed healthcare practitioners educated in…
We Ask Physicians to Lower Cost, Then Penalize Their Innovation
We penalize efficient physicians that leverage innovation, then we cut their reimbursement…
More Nursing Shortage Myth Building
My piece on the nursing shortage myth received more than 100 comments…
Promising Nursing Careers Beyond the Bedside
Tell people that you are pursuing a nursing degree and most of…
A Framework for Collaborative Peer Review
I titled this post "Collaborative Peer Review" because peer review brings out…
Physician Capacity
A little while ago Scott Gottleib and Zeke Emmanuel co-authored an op-ed…
Cut-Rate Concierge Medicine? One Medical Resorts to Discounting
I have mixed views about concierge medicine. On the one hand I…
Why Every Hospital Should Be Doing Search Engine Marketing
More and more hospitals are trying out search engine marketing (SEM) through…
How Hospital Marketing Fits Into the Physician Quality Reporting System
One element of hospital reimbursement that looms large in 2014 is the Physician…