Comments on: What We Measure Matters…A Lot!

By: The Fix That Fails, And Worse — Medical Malprocess

The Fix That Fails, And Worse — Medical Malprocess — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:44:11 +0000

[...] to maintain our good health and to reduce medical costs. Need I reiterate our current situation? HIPAA was supposed initially to give us portable (job-to-job) health insurance and later, to protect the [...]

By: We Need the Right Consensus — Medical Malprocess

We Need the Right Consensus — Medical Malprocess — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:43:21 +0000

[...] and painful, we avoid them. We pretend that we all agree. But we do not, and without a consensus on desired outcomes, we cannot fix [...]

By: Doctor “Rats” Won’t Gnaw at Costs — Medical Malprocess

Doctor “Rats” Won’t Gnaw at Costs — Medical Malprocess — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:31:54 +0000

[...] system that: measures only negative short-term outcomes, like costs and deaths; fails to reward the outcomes we want; and refuses to connect positive incentives with desired [...]