Lean HealthCare
Will not be available for the next four years
If the pseudo-elected administration survives for the full four years, lean healthcare will not be available. The illiberal administration needs to maintain control of United States Healthcare to allow their manipulation and control as in socialism and Marxism. The head of the Democratic party has informed its members never use the word: Socialism. It is […]
Basic routine outpatient health care is cheap unless you have insurance. A private non-governmental base program will reduce health care cost
I’ve been evaluating a private non-governmental base program to reduce health care cost. My premise is that basic health care is very cheap unless you run it through an insurance company which makes a fortune on this type of coverage. Just looking at data from my 45 years of pulmonary practice, I came to the […]
Simplify your life in 2020 It’s a new decade. Time to get these privacy-invasive, depression-causing, money-sucking apps off your phone for good.
27+ smartphone apps you should delete before 2020 https://www.fastcompany.com/90435619/27-apps-to-delete-in-2020?utm_source=pocket-newtab [Source illustration: Jane_Kelly/iStock; Pavlo Stavnichuk/iStock] By Michael Grothaus The modern smartphone app has existed for almost a dozen years now—ever since Apple launched the App Store back in 2008. In that time, apps have become a part of our daily lives, and some of them have […]
5. Lean HealthCare: Is based on Deductibles and Co-Pays on Every Procedure
Over my 45 years in the private practice of medicine the excessive costs we daily observed were primarily related to patient demand for additional unnecessary consultations; additional unnecessary laboratory testing; additional unnecessary x-rays; CT scans, MRI scans; additional unnecessary hospital days above that which was necessary for making the diagnosis and begin appropriate treatment. We […]
5. Lean HealthCare: Cost in Perspective Who’s To Blame For Our Rising Healthcare Costs? By Louis Goodman & Timothy Norbeck
Capital Flows Contributor Guest commentary curated by Forbes Opinion. Avik Roy, Opinion Editor. For many years and in countless articles, physicians have been the scapegoat for rising healthcare costs in the U.S. In fact, they have been blamed by many critics for the U.S. leading the world in healthcare expenditures. A close examination of the […]
Avoid the High Cost Centers with Catastrophic coverage
Health insurance plans are supposed to give us peace of mind in case something unimaginable happens. After all, that’s when we need these medical benefits the most. More people just want catastrophic coverage and don’t want to have to pay high premiums for basic, every day care. If that’s you, these options normally include the […]
Lean is ubiquitous. Or is it?
How many private jets are going to Davos in 2019? Based on official statistics for business jet use into and out of Zurich and St Gallen airports, we estimate 14% less private jet use in 2019 compared to 2018 Taking into account the average number of flights expected at both airports during the year, this […]
The Most Energetic Area of Lean Practice
James Womack: The Lean MovementWith the current activity to increase the minimum wage, we need to review what James Womack said in 2008 when he was reflecting on the progress of the Lean Movement: “One critical indicator is our success in extending lean thinking to new industries and activities. In recent years I have been […]
It begins and ends with the patient
www.lean.org. Lean Production Begins with LPPD by John Y. Shook Lean Product and Process Development (Insert PATIENT everyplace you see CUSTOMER/ Lean Production isn’t just about the factory. It doesn’t even begin there and certainly doesn’t end there. It ends with the customer. Where does it begin? Also with the customer. But that pithy statement […]
Automatic if Doctor and Patient are totally in charge
There are many forces dealing with controlling health care costs. All efforts have failed. In fact, most of these efforts have increased health care costs and also eliminated essential care. This has caused a decrease in the Quality of Care (QOC), the purported reason for policing doctors and hospitals. Controlling health care costs from the […]