RWL Newsletter #47
Greetings from the University of New Hampshire! I'm a day late sending this out because I spent most of the day on the road yesterday, including a tour of the new ICU at Lowell General Hospital (pic of the outside of LGH above). I recorded an interview with Tim King of G. Greene Construction, the firm that LGH contracted with to do their ICU rennovation. Tim's interview will be on the Health Leader Forge some time in the fall.
In the meantime, here are this week's links:
Read
What: Modern Healthcare, The push for clinicians to talk more about health costs, by Steven Ross Johnson
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20170601/NEWS/170609984?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20170601-NEWS-170609984&utm_campaign=am
Why: From the article: "A survey of more than 400 emergency medicine professionals found that only 38% of them could accurately estimate the cost of treating three common conditions in an ER." I think this is an important dysfunction in our health system. On the one hand, we don't want cost to be an issue when health is at stake. On the other hand, we are constantly thinking about how to drive cost down. Should physicians be more knowledgeable about cost? That's actually a complicated question, since cost to the patient varies a great deal with who the patient has contracted with for insurance. The idea of "financial harm" is an interesting one - in light of "first, do no harm."
Watch
What: from Stanford Business School, Richard Cox: Creating Authentic Power (8 minutes)
https://youtu.be/IVaOP-r_yH8
Why: This is a short video about being conscious of our body language and how it establishes our power. I don't know that I consider this "authentic power" per se, but it's real. Worth a few minutes of contemplation.
Listen
What: Conversations with Tyler, Garry Kasparov on AI, Chess, and the Future of Creativity (36 minutes)
https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/garry-kasparov-tyler-cowen-chess-iq-ai-putin-3bf28baf4dba
Why: Garry Kasparov is a world famous chess grandmaster, and famously lost a chess match to IBM's Deep Blue computer in 1997 - the first time a reigning chess champion lost to a computer. He's written a book Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins. I'm not a chess aficionado, but this interview is much more wide ranging than chess. It's actually an interesting discussion about the future relationship between man and technology. For those of us in the healthcare field, that should hold a great deal of interest.
That's it for this week!
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Thanks for reading and see you next week!
Mark
Mark J. Bonica, Ph.D., MBA, MS
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Management and Policy
University of New Hampshire
(603) 862-0598
mark.bonica@unh.edu
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"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor." - Henry David Thoreau