Congrats to Woman of Impact, Dr. Bernadette Melnyk! AACN Honors Ohio State’s Melnyk for Her Work Advocating for Evidence-Based Nursing Practice
Kate Dickerson The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) honors Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, RN, APRN-CNP, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN, with a 2018 AACN Pioneering Spirit Award. This AACN Visionary Leadership Award recognizes significant contributions that influence high-acuity and critical care nursing and relate to the association’s mission, vision and values. The presentation will occur during […]
American College of Physicians Outlines Steps to Achieve Gender Equity
Darilyn Moyer, MD Despite some gains, gender inequity still exists in the physician workforce, a new position paper by the American College of Physicians (ACP) finds, and is urging all organizations to work toward the elimination of compensation inequity and help eliminate obstacles to female advancement. The position paper, Achieving Gender Equity in Physician Compensation […]
Make Match Day a Movement Toward Health Citizenship
Tanisha Carino, PhD For thousands of U.S. medical students, March 16 is the day they will find out where their next steps will be in their pursuit of saving lives. These new clinical leaders are entering a quickly transforming world. Big data and artificial intelligence are on the cusp of accelerating scientific advancement. Society has […]
Is the Future of Value-Based Payment at Risk?
By Dr. Susan Turney, Chief Executive Officer, Marshfield Clinic Health SystemThe U.S. healthcare economy is beginning an incredible transformation. If it continues at the current pace, in a few years from now we may hardly recognize the way healthcare is measured, billed and paid. Incentives will be better aligned, costs will be lower and care […]
Opinion: Quality Stars and Payments Ought to be Earned
Ceci Connolly Originally posted on the Morning Consult. The federal government rates Medicare Advantage plans using a star system that evaluates clinical quality, patient satisfaction and regulatory compliance. This star rating system is designed to help America’s seniors evaluate the quality of their healthcare options. And it has successfully incentivized health plans to coordinate care […]
Modern Healthcare Editorial: The case for women executives and a second shortlist for Bezos, Buffett and Dimon
Dr. Joanne Conroy and Fawn Lopez Originally posted on Modern Healthcare. Amazon, Berkshire-Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase created shock waves in January when they announced plans to launch their own healthcare company. On March 8, they generated even more buzz when news spread that a search was underway for a CEO to lead the joint […]
VISTA: The Future of Health Care Is In Hospital Delivery Sciences
Eleven years ago, I remember being a junior faculty member attending the first “Quality Fair” at the University of Chicago, and presenting my work among roughly 20 posters on how to measure quality for hospitalized older patients. While I am proud to say this poster actually won an award, I am also embarrassed to say […]
Why Healthcare Needs More Women Leaders
Recently, Modern Healthcare published its list of the 50 most influential physician executives and leaders. The list included only seven women. There were seven in 2016, nine in 2015, and eight in 2014. Women comprise less than 10 percent of that list. As you will see, the math does not add up. Women make up […]
The Value Dilemma
The oft-used phrase, “from volume to value,” was coined here in Pittsburgh by our own Harold Miller as the title of a framing paper for our first of three Payment Reform summits. It clearly had resonance. I hear it in every venue where health reform advocates gather. “Value” is hot, and the Centers for Medicare […]
Health Care Mergers and Acquisitions: A Promising New Environment for Medical Research?
The changing health care landscape, accelerated by the Affordable Care Act, has signaled a move of the federal government, as well as private insurers, from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursements. To ramp up for this change, academic health centers are creating larger, integrated care delivery systems through mergers and acquisitions of hospitals, physician practices, and potentially […]