April 2011
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Kate Burton Marple
Kate Burton Marple was born yesterday, April 18th, at 10:44AM, weighing 7 lbs. 1 oz. Mother and daughter are healthy, home now, and feeling fine.
While all of that is true, this standard announcement doesn’t begin to reflect the incredible experience of her birth.
It’s 6 in the morning, and Yin gently shakes me awake, wide-eyed. “I think it’s time,” she says. At...
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Accountable Care Orgs: Design and Implementation
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HSMA: A Fond Farewell
The Health Services Management Association is the Boston University School of Management’s student-run club for people interested in the health care delivery industry and its related services. Our mission is to foster a community of like-minded students and alumni through events that educate, entertain, and enlighten.
I had the honor and privilege to serve as the club’s President...
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The New ACO Regulations
Interesting discussion on Paul Levy’s blog about the merits of the new CMS Accountable Care Organization definitions. I’m arguing that they’re a small step in the right direction, without much support.
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March 2011
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Disruptive Innovation in Healthcare
One of the themes that’s captured our imagination this school year has been the idea of disruptive innovation in the healthcare market. Last fall, Marcel Tam invited Dr. Jason Hwang, co-author of The Innovator’s Prescription, on campus to explain how Clayton Christensen’s concept of disruptive innovation applied to healthcare. With health care costs spiraling out of control,...
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Even Babies Are Affected By Financial Incentives →
Another story about hospitals rerouting patients into more expensive procedures - this time it’s just that the patients are newborns. I’m never surprised when provider organizations (or anyone) act in their financial best interest. It’s human nature, and can be rationalized many ways, as evidenced by the quote from Dr. Hankins in the article.
This is exactly why we need...
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Commonwealth Care - How Well Is It Working?
The Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority, the state agency that acts as insurance broker for the subsidized Commonwealth Care commercial insurance offerings, recently posted membership survey results. These results were presented to the Connector Authority’s Board of Directors, and they highlight both the successes and the challenges still ahead for Massachusetts health care...
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Our Tour of the Yawkey Center for Cancer Care
Boston University’s health services management club, HSMA, was privileged to experience a guided tour of Dana-Farber’s new Yawkey Center for Cancer Care. The building, Dana-Farber’s first patient-care-only facility, just opened in January. If that weren’t exciting enough, our tour guide was none other than Janet Porter, Dana-Farber’s dynamic COO. I want to express...
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The Essence of Self-Leadership
This will be the first post in what I hope to be a continuing series about the most important concepts that I’ve learned in business school. Title ideas anyone? I’m hoping that reviewing these concepts will be helpful for others, but I’m also trying to ensure that I don’t forget these big ideas as quickly as I learned them.
One of the encompassing ideas I’ve...
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Recalled
Intel recently issued a recall for the motherboards for its new Sandy Bridge chipset, and I’ve been hit twice. I just built a new PC for my parents to replace their dying one. They’ll be without a computer when I rip their faulty mobo out of their PC, send it back, and wait for a replacement. And my current desktop needs a new mobo, but because motherboard manufacturers learned...
