Reflections on Healthcare Management

In 2014, Don Berwick, MD, MPP, compared his months on the Massachusetts Gubernatorial campaign trail with Marco Polo's travels to the legendary city of Xanadu. Instead of [...]

The Military Health System (MHS) is a vast, global, integrated healthcare delivery system. One of the largest healthcare organizations in the United States, the MHS manag [...]

Spending 44% of their work days on administrative and clerical tasks rather than direct patient care, it is no surprise that medical providers are currently experiencing [...]

This paper reviews the basics of Goldratt's Theory of Constraints (TOC), followed by a discussion of how they have been adapted for project management (PM). Some of the b [...]

Incorporation of the stand-up huddle into traditional waterfall project management methodology can improve communication in complex, multi-site projects. Huddles are inte [...]

How do we best decide which projects to move forward? While a wide range of project and quality management tools and templates exist, little is available in the current l [...]

Introduction for the second collection of work from the School of Medicine's Division of Management. Jessica Walter comments that nearly all of the papers touch on the th [...]

The practice of medicine increasingly relies on machine intelligence. Most of the existing technology functions as tools to support human activity, but some emerging uses [...]

In 1981 the United States Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) expanded the legally recognized forms of death to either (1) the irreversible cessation of circulatory [...]

Abuse of patients by healthcare workers is an issue of serious concern for every hospital and healthcare facility. These investigations present a serious challenge to hea [...]