Most of us have probably entered a room and felt the tension resonating off of a few people or a couple of groups of people. Many of us have experienced this kind of situation while at work, which makes conducting business difficult at best. For the select few who work in the healthcare industry, added stress like this can translate incongruent goals...

Population Health Management is often not unclearly defined. A basic grasp of Population Health Management has to do with the knowing a certain population, like a community or city, and actively strategizing to provide the best care at the lowest possible cost. This happens by knowing what infections and diseases are prevalent to the area, what treatments...

One of the greatest demands that has been placed at the feet of healthcare professionals is to do their job better and to do it with less money out of pocket. This is a daunting task for any expert in their own field, but had seemed almost insurmountable for doctors and other in the medical business. A tool was employed to do what had been done in other...

To begin any project of significant size, whether it is new or renewal, you must have plans and tools with which to work. This is also the case when making quality improvements within a healthcare organization. The bigger question is where to start; are improvements even needed? Which departments are struggling and where? Is the system to blame or processes?...

Do you have one of those desks that has files piled high, sticky notes stuck to almost every horizontal and vertical surface, and you are the only one that understands the “system” to the madness?  What if this were the case for your doctor or other health professional: would you feel confident in his or her ability to treat you?  Probably not.  Yet,...

Nobody wants to go through a traumatic medical event of any sort.  To experience a heart attack is difficult enough, but to be on the road to recovery and then to be readmitted into the hospital for heart failure related complications is something that no one wants to go through.   However, it is an all-too-common course that people end up on.  In fact,...