Cataldo Doria

Jon: that is my approach too. Listen to what everyone has to say. Do not disregard any suggestion or recommendation. However follow-up only with what makes most sense.

Angela: I am with you! Giving in would make Matulovic susceptible to criticisms, and more vulnerable in the future to further pressure on other agenda items he might want to push ahead.

Diane: Your comments, to my mind, brings up the issue of how to properly interview, and hire personnels. I am wondering whether or not you wanted to have people around that had IT basic knowledge/understanding.

Ademola: how is the turn over at your Institution? That is also a symptom of how happy or unhappy people might be.

Ademola: that is great! I actually remember that in a previous job where I started a transplant program in Europe on behalf of an US Academical Center, was much better regarded than the experience I had in the early ’00 in Philadelphia. I guess is just a matter of leadership and priority.

David, I have heard of some controversial report about the EMR fulfilling the expectation of the “Obama Care.” Also, some Health Care Professionals claim that EMR produces more exposure to liability. It is surprising that the majority of the posts in this section are about organizations that under invest in IT, and at the same time we leave in a…[Read more]

I work for a large academic hospital in Philadelphia. When I first started in this job, 12 years ago, IT was definitively under invested. However in the past 2 years after a change in leadership the organization has definitively made a move in the right direction First and foremost by hiring a CIO, and preparing to implement a better EMR. What…[Read more]

Mary,
you are right. Marketing is a very important piece. Personally, I migrated from the classic billboards, and radio announcement to a very heavy presence on the web. Quite honestly the OMBA pushed me through this change which I am really enjoying. I also believe in the personal reach out, and the hand shaking: in other words the classic…[Read more]

Xiaoying, as we learned this week systems thinking is a specialised branch of holistic thinking. Also, you can think about anything holistically but is the application of the holistic thinking to the system thinking that makes idea such as the ones of a scientist progress toward discovery

An example of system thinking is basic science research where scientists understand in depth every single step of the experiment or series of experiments in a trial. The scientist is also capable of connecting all these information together to interpreter the results. When a scientist aims at a specific discovery, there are a number of…[Read more]

David, costs of course have a large impact in everything that we do. Hospitals before insurances are interested in cutting costs as much as possible. When we look at the issue of insurance companies and transplant programs the issue of costs, in my opinion, is about to hit hard our discipline. Thus far insurance programs have been partnering…[Read more]

Kristen: doing what is best for the corporation is definitively what Matulovic has to do, and that is why he feels so pressured. I also believe that no matter what he does he will not be well seen by those who will not end up receiving the support they expect, unless he will be astute enough to make his colleagues perceive that the new management…[Read more]

I really enjoyed reading the Business Model Generation. I am a doctor, and I practice transplant surgery. I decided to pick the value proposition box in the business model canvas. As a back ground, competition in my field is extremely high. In addition to that, because of the lack of organ donors, there is no growth in transplantation. Also,…[Read more]

The situation described in the case study sounds quite familiar to me. I think it has some analogies to our budget season. Every year everyone has a “very important,” actually “the most important” new item to be listed in the budget. Often times these items are not trivial and actually ask for substantial resources. Nevertheless, everyon…[Read more]

Mariya: I get your point, very well taken. However, I want to tell you a story that happened to me, personally, in S. Francisco in 1994. I went there for a job interview at UCSF. At night, after the interview, I wanted to go for dinner to China Town. I hired a cab, and the taxi driver while riding me to my destination did not stop at a red…[Read more]

Mori, in my opinion, the negative and the positive remarks available on a site such as Yelp, even if un-currupted, can only be “relatively” helpful. In the restaurant example, how do I know if the consumers that left a positive or a negative review have my same expectation, or taste for food, of appreciation for a specific cocking stile?

To a 5 year old: Yelp is like a blackboard where your teacher writes a list of the good and bad things you do in school. Wouldn’t it be bad if someone you do not know, and your teacher does not know would cancel some of the good things you did?

I never trusted Yelp. I actually think there more reliable ways to know which one is a good r…[Read more]

Diane:

I leave in town (Queens Village). The response time is a matter of seconds, whereas with cabs you never know if someone is going to show up. You actually get the cell phone number of the driver and you can call the driver if you wish – I always do it to confirm my address. I am a transplant surgeon and I work, very often, at night. I…[Read more]

I have used UBER multiple times and I really enjoy the service provided. In the city of Philadelphia cabs are not generally clean and the drivers and not always friendly. Taxi driver, also, are not usually very respectful of the driving laws. All of the above makes the taxi riding experience, in Philadelphia, quite poor. Uber has changed this…[Read more]

The EMR at Sunnylake Hospital suffered from a cyber attack three years after its implementation. As a result of that the access to it was denied to the healthcare providers, as well as any other authorized users. The CEO of the hospital was warned a few days prior of the imminent attack and was asked to pay 100K to avoid or revoke the security…[Read more]