Archive for September, 2011

  • Health Insurance Costs UP 9+% Health Insurance Costs UP 9+%

    Many recent news articles are quoting this statistic with alarm.  No kidding!  Any way that one looks at the number or the graph, they see continuing decline of the health care value construct. If you want to go beyond the news clips and get some of the background data, go to the source - this ...

  • NASCAR, On-site Clinics, and Medicine NASCAR, On-site Clinics, and Medicine

    Forbes had a recent article that we should all read and re-read about one of the key innovators in medicine, Dr. Harlan Krumholz of Harvard, labeling him as one of the most powerful doctors "you never heard of."  We will pardon their misuse of the preposition at the end of their description, bu...

  • Contracts and RFPs - Transforming Your Vision Contracts and RFPs – Transforming Your Vision

    OK, let's go out and address the grass issue by getting a "riding  mower."  The problem is that whatever you describe is what you will get if you use the request-for-proposal (RFP) approach.  The RFP needs to be pretty specific if you want the end product to match your vision.  If you have e...