by John G. Self | Nov 18, 2013 | Healthcare
It’s over. That period of time, and accompanying belief system, where regardless of how messy attempts to reform healthcare become, that everything will somehow work out, that the business model we know will survive relatively unchanged, is just not realistic. Yet,...
by John G. Self | Oct 30, 2013 | Healthcare, Leadership
Being a medical doctor does not automatically qualify someone to run what Peter Drucker described as …one of the most complex of all human organizations ever devised by man – a hospital. We are on the front end of an emerging school of thought that says...
by John G. Self | Oct 28, 2013 | Healthcare
Post filed from Atlanta, Georgia. John Self joined Stephanie Drake, senior executive director of the American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration (ASHHRA) of the American Hospital Association (AHA) as keynote speakers to the American Health...
by John G. Self | Oct 23, 2013 | Healthcare
Healthcare executives are primarily focusing on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) as the next big game changer for healthcare delivery. They are probably right to focus on ACA today, but this event is only the set up for the biggest healthcare game...
by John G. Self | Oct 21, 2013 | Healthcare, Leadership
There is an abundance of complexity in the daily operation of a hospital that affects quality of care and patient safety, and contributes to the new estimate of more than 440,000 preventable deaths each year. Back-stabbing politics and abusive managers should not be...
by John G. Self | Oct 14, 2013 | Current Affairs, Healthcare
Posted From Chicago Three days until we hit the debt ceiling and the art of cash management for the federal government becomes a really tricky deal… Meanwhile, our leaders – with a small “L” – are scrambling to find a solution. As of this writing, on a beautiful cool...
