Monitoring the birth of an industry
by Gregg Anthony Masters, MPH Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of posts on ‘Patient Safety’ and specifically the NMP (“not my patient, not my problem”) problem in medicine. I recently participated in the World Patient Safety Day in Washington, D.C., September 17th, 2024, with organizing founding members of the Patients for …
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by Gregg A. Masters, MPH and Fred Goldstein, MS* In the still unfolding operating ‘new normal‘ wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic the path forward presents perhaps the career challenge of a lifetime to both seasoned and emerging U.S. healthcare leadership. No doubt, in health system c-suites across the nation the strategic question is and will …
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By Fred Goldstein, MS, Alexandria Skoufalos, EdD and Gregg Masters, MPH Can you believe it’s been 20 years since the first Population Health Colloquium? Back then, we were just a few months into a new century. Maybe some of you even remember the concern over whether Y2K (a programming shortcut that used two digits to …
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By Gregg A. Masters, MPH I have followed this narrative for quite some time albeit inside the industry contained debate of whether so-called ‘non-profit’ [501(c)3] hospitals or their parent systems (really more aptly characterized as “tax exempt”) actually earn this financial advantage via material ‘returns’ to the communities they serve. As can be expected you …
by Gregg A. Masters, MPH I proudly display the ‘MPH” (master of public health) tag awarded by the School of Public Health from UCLA (a long time ago) and have both tweeted and blogged about the ‘we need more MPH’s and less MBA’s’ to solve America’s pressing healthcare challenges (access, affordability and quality imperative or …
Continue reading “Ebola: What’s Accountable Care Got To Do With It?”
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