Contracting Professional of the Year Quotables
The Journal of Healthcare Contracting congratulates Laurel Junk in being named this year’s Contracting Professional of the Year. JHC talked with Junk about a number…
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Loving Your Work
“When you start loving what you are learning, it will no longer look like work. Everything will fall in place after that. Just fall in…
Leadership and Culture for Higher Safety Performance
Improving organizational health and safety is like motherhood. Everyone is in favor of it.Vision, values, and mission statements abound with warm words about its importance….
What Have You Committed To Become?
Big thinkers, backed by integrity and big personal commitments, many times accomplish big, worthy results. Take the case of Larry Potterfield, founder of a…
Value analysis and purchased services? Yes.
Purchased services seem to be getting more attention in supply chain circles today. The question is, can the principles of value analysis, technology assessment, and…
Review of “The Happiness Advantage” by Shawn Achor
Up until the late nineties psychology was overly focused on the “sickness model” and treating mental illness. In The Happiness Advantage Shawn points out, “as…
Lessons from Demonstration Projects
In his latest Observation Deck, JHC Editor Mark Thill talks about the “Lessons from Medicare’s Demonstration Projects on Disease Management, Care Coordination and Value-Based Payment,”…
Presidential Leadership Advice
It has been my honor and privilege to visit each and every United States Presidential Library and Museum in America. The Presidential Libraries/Museums are managed…
AMA: Studies needed on ambulatory care, too
In a recent opinion piece for American Medical News, the American Medical Association is calling for “much more robust safety research in the ambulatory care…
What’s at the heart of your organization?
Love isn’t “the word” found in most organizations. Fear is more like it. Fear of criticism, fear of failure, fear of getting caught, or fear…