by John G. Self | May 16, 2014 | Healthcare
HOUSTON, Texas — Extending the theme of my Wednesday post, The Future of Healthcare: Going Out On A Limb, some hospital executives have confided that there are days, weeks, even months, in which they feel like they are caught up in a distracting game of musical...
by John G. Self | Jan 20, 2014 | Healthcare, Leadership
A recent study determined that the hardest businesses in the world to manage are hospitals — 20 percent tougher than any other enterprise. For health system and hospital CEOs, those results amount to nothing more than a blinding flash of the obvious. While I do not...
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 | Sep 23, 2013 | Current Affairs, Healthcare, Leadership
John is off today. The following blog first appeared in July of 2009. Reforming healthcare is one of the most complex, daunting and important tasks of this decade. What began with great hope and good intentions to avoid the reform mistakes of the past is now going...
by John G. Self | Aug 28, 2013 | Healthcare
“There is a lot of talk but not a lot of action,” says Rich Williams, Principal of DFW-based Advanced Plan for Health, a nine-year-old population health management enterprise. Hospitals, at least the ones that know that population health management will be one of the...
