It is April and here in the Deep South every day is a guessing game. My daffodils are  just shedding their colorful blooms and I can see tender buds tentatively peeking out from the trees in the backyard. The last couple of weeks have brought thunderstorms, snow, nippy keep-the-heat-on days closely followed by shorts and ...

The introduction of two new hospital facilities in the US marks the beginning of a shift in the healthcare industry. According to a recent news release from Dark Daily, a nationwide change from inpatient- to outpatient-based treatment approaches has resulted in the construction of “bedless hospitals.” In preparation for changes due to the ...

We all know the saying ''birds of a feather flock together.''  This does not only refer to the fact that those with common interests and values tend to be friends and hang around each other. Research has shown that adopting synchronous body language (essentially mirroring someone else) tends to make the individuals feel closer without ...

There’s that famous saying, “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” I think it can be applied to any quality, especially leadership. As a kid, I always thought it was something people were just born with in the same way that some people are just athletic and others are just funny. I think we all ...

Since the ASCP took over the popular and progressive NCA in 2009, I have periodically received emails from medical lab professionals not happy with the merger for various reasons.  Prompted by this overwhelming response, I have previously blogged about this subject. I have also addressed the mixed response to the move. Recently I have ...

Imagining health IT in 10 years, implementing a health and wellness program, and the technologies that keep the C-suite up at night. Get daily tweets by following us @ExecInsight. KentBottles The flaws of electronic records 　http://www.philly.com/philly/health/20130218_The_flaws_of_electronic_records.html　… Perficient Health IT Top 10 Tech ...

New list! CIO and CMO partnerships, HIMSS tweetups, patient-centered medical home infographic, and is iEHR really dead? Get daily tweets by following us @ExecInsight! Stephen Wilkins Infographic on patient-centered medical home http://shar.es/Y7SUX　#PCMH Ken Congdon Is iEHR really dead? http://ow.ly/hE0yd　 via @GovHIT Vala Afshar ...

I recently ran the Disney marathon -- It was magical. Also, long. After the race, I proceeded to consume my weight in fried food and chocolate for about a week until I finally evened out and started eating like a normal person again. Of course, I’ve written about endurance athletics before (I used small pieces of Clif Bar instead of energy ...

Editor's note: This blog was written by Daniella Koren, president, DKI. For the past 12 years, my focus and interest has been relationship marketing (RM), specifically patient relationship marketing. It has been the allure around building, segmenting and leveraging a database of qualified patients, usually suffering from disease states where ...

New graduates especially are familiar with the frustration of looking at an ad for a dream job only to see the dreaded ''experience required.''   In frustration, they argue, ''How can I get experience if no one will give me a job, a chance to gain some experience?'' But such frustration is not confined to new graduates. A colleague who ...