Promising Reimbursement Methodology; More on Music and Real Estate Industries; Another Blog Post Goodbye to an Employer

Ted Eytan — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:29:05 +0000

January 12th through January 13th:

Prometheus Payment, Inc. – A new payment model that supports outcomes, evidence-based care, and transparency
The music industry | From major to minor | Economist.com – “Then they had the money and could have built the competence by buying concert agencies and merchandise companies,”…Now it may be too late.
Coverity Incorporated Scan – Company working with the US Govt to harden open source code for use by agencies including Homeland Security. They are finding bugs and the bugs are being fixed.
Online Real Estate Sites Work To Get A Listing Standard – Another industry that is seeing the benefits of standards, and the challenges of disruption
Gone Indie ? Thought Palace – Interesting insight on the work environment at Apple. LEAN production? You decide. I will say, though, that even though Apple is not embracing Web 2.0 like other companies are, I have solved many problems using their hosted discussions. These actually work well on Apple’s site I think because they do a great job of leveraging their loyal customer base. Yet another blog “goodbye” to an employer.
Lean Manufacturing Blog: 1 Hour Kaizen – Excellent template and approach to small improvements. Just takes an hour. Can we have physicians shadowing nurses and vice versa?

HIT Resources; Blogging about “breaking up” with your company; Dr. Phil (Marshall) joins the blogosphere

Ted Eytan — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:15:13 +0000

Health Information Technology Toolkit – An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit – Produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – a bibliography and web sites of conventional wisdom related to HIT
The Afro American Newspaper: Washington, DC Women more likely to die from breast cancer – Access is cited as a key issue in this situation.
TWI Job Instruction for Lean Healthcare – Fascinating materials from the 1940′s, before Training within Industry was abandoned. Let’s bring it back.
Nathan Stoll: Breaking up with Google: a difficult, highly personal decision and a very fond farewell – Interesting both as a metaphor (“breaking up” when leaving an organization), and in using a blog to make the broader announcement.
Dr. Phil’s Blogajawea – Dr. Phil Marshall is the VP of Product Strategy for WebMD, the co-founder of Genacy and is the Executive Director of the Oregon Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps.