Good Health and The Latest Health Wonk Review Is Up!. Elvonda

Happy Anniversary to the Health Business Blog. And what better way to celebrate the occasion than by hosting the Health Wonk Review .  David...

Good Health and Promoting Amphetamines for Over-Eating - What Could Possibly Go Wrong? . Elvonda

Every day seems to bring the latest breathlessly touted innovation in modern health care.  The endless hawking of new health care wonders is...

Good Health and The Third Wave, Informatics, Quantum Mechanics and Health Care Reform. Elvonda

Schr�dinger's cat While the Population Health Blog continues to mull the promise vs. reality of Alvin Toffler's book on The   Third ...

Good Health and Timing Discharges to Maximize Revenue - "Corruption" of Corporate Long-Term Hospitals?. Elvonda

A recent Wall Street Journal article that focused on a quirk in US Medicare payment rules that may be gamed by long-term hospitals also rev...

Good Health and Don't Forget the Irma Ruebling Distinguished Speaker Series on March 19, 2015! . Elvonda

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Good Health and You Called Me "Greedy?" - $2.2 Million/Year CEO of Catholic Health Care Whose Mission is to Bring "God�s Mercy to the Poor and Under-served" Sues Union for Defamation. Elvonda

From the annals of cognitive dissonance.... Background Here is the background.  Mercy Health, formerly Catholic Health Partners, claims to b...

Good Health and Pay 'em When They're Up, Pay 'em When They're Down - CEO Value Extraction Even at Small Non-Profit Hospitals. Elvonda

To the tune of "Dirty Laundry," by Don Henley, some more of health care's dirty laundry... We have frequently discussed the se...

Good Health and Wall Street Journal: "ObamaCare�s Electronic-Records Debacle" . Elvonda

This WSJ Op-Ed could have been entitled "President Sucker:  Led Down the Garden Path by The Healthcare IT Industry." It is entitle...