Featured blog post: Atul Gawande--Why healthcare should be like baseball
Medical Staff Leader Connection, October 7, 2010
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Medical Staff Leader Connection!
Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, gave the keynote address at this week’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2010 Annual Conference in Bethesda, MD. Gawande is a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Dana-Faber Cancer Institute, associate professor at Harvard Medical School, both in Boston, and, perhaps, is best known for his work as a staff writer for The New Yorker and a New York Times best-selling author.
Among some of the inspiring words was Gawande’s proposal that the healthcare system use science to improve patient safety and change the culture of medicine.
Ringing a bell with Boston attendees, Gawande referenced former Red Sox general manager (now Oakland A’s general manager) Billy Beane’s approach to baseball. Using statistics, Beane recruited Kevin Youkilis and acknowledged his ability to get onto first base, despite his reputation for being a pudgy and poor third baseman. Youkilis went onto become a two-time World Series champion.
Read more of this blog post on MedicalStaffLeader.com
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Medical Staff Leader Connection!
Related Products
-
The Medical Executive Committee Handbook, Third Edition
Updated to reflect the new 2007 Joint Commission standards, this best-selling resource offers practical tools and strategies...
-
Medical Staff Leaders' Practical Guide, Sixth Edition
Written by experienced medical staff leaders currently working in hospitals, The Medical Staff Leaders' Practical Guide...
-
Assessing the Competency of Low-Volume Practitioners:
The Joint Commission requires that hospitals verify physician competence using performance data. Yet organizations often...
-
The Final Verdict on MS.01.01.01:
The Joint Commission has finalized and communicated the changes to MS.01.01.01. This program will not restate what you...
-
Medical Staff Briefing
This monthly resource acts as a support system by providing time-saving tools, expert advice, and analyses to help you...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Q/A: Volume requirement for reporting hydration services
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- Catch up on what's new with injections and infusions
- Topic: CMS, OESS post new security compliance review information, checklist
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- News and briefs: Oklahoma Osteopathic Association against residency bill change
- Capturing all necessary codes for IUD insertion and removal can be challenging
- QA:Coding multiple initial infusions
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- HIPAA Q&A: Level of encryption needed for email
- E-mailed
-
- Q/A: Volume requirement for reporting hydration services
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- Catch up on what's new with injections and infusions
- New conflicts of interest create new challenges
- Q&A tackles coding questions about injections and infusions
- Joint Commission Center announces handoff communication solutions
- Inside best practice: Reduce patient falls with a stoplight
- Identify modifiable risk factors to prevent patient falls
- Hospitalist-surgeon comanagement has no effect on outcomes
- Case Management Monthly, June 2012
- Searched