Future of Healthcare
Change Management and Echo Consulting – Where the Rubber Hits the Road
January 9th, 2017by: Mary Jo Snyder
There are few words in the business world open to as much interpretation as integration. In health care, the word is suddenly ubiquitous. It’s part of the language of health care’s brave new world. And it leaves oh so many details shrouded in mystery. The new integrated acute care program at US Acute Care Solutions […]
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Physician Burnout Challenges Our Assumptions
December 7th, 2016by: Dr. Anoop Kumar
I probably set a record for the earliest a physician ever burned out: less than a year after earning my MD. Some may not call it burnout; it could just as well be called “internship.” I call it burnout because beyond the exhaustion and can’t-take-it-anymore, there was a gnawing sense that something fundamental was missing […]
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A Better Way to Manage Acute Care
November 3rd, 2016by: Dr. Tim Corvino
A few weeks ago, we received a letter from a patient who had recently been treated at one of our integrated acute care locations at Somerset Hospital. The patient had come to the emergency department and was ultimately admitted to the hospital. The letter detailed how grateful he was that the same physician assistant who […]
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The Challenge and the Opportunity of ONE USACS
September 22nd, 2016by: Dr. Angelo Falcone
When I began my career some 25 years ago, my measure of success was pretty simple: take better care of my patients. The average emergency medicine clinician will treat 75,000 patients over a 25-year career. That’s a staggering number of lives to touch. At some point early in my career, I realized there were different […]
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The National Clinical Governance Board: Our Answer to a National Problem
August 25th, 2016by: Dr. David Klein
Emergency physicians know well the realities of evidence-based guidelines in emergency departments throughout the country: either there is wide variability in their use and uptake, or there just aren’t any evidence-based guidelines. Patients don’t often think about it when choosing emergency departments – they mostly think about the wait time – but it’s there. Two […]
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Four Months After Becoming a Founding Partner in USACS: Where Are We?
May 11th, 2016by: Dr. Angelo Falcone
On January 1st of this year, MEP Health became a founding partner in US Acute Care Solutions. Four months later, one thing is abundantly clear, if it wasn’t already: if you’re not comfortable with change, you’re probably working in the wrong industry. Some might say you’re living in the wrong century. Our decision to help […]
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The New Worldview in Health Care Should Be Based on Wellbeing, Not Disease
April 15th, 2016by: Dr. Anoop Kumar
Over the last decade, I’ve studied, trained and practiced my craft in the emergency department, dedicated to doing my best for each patient. In that time, I’ve also realized that while I am a part of the medical care system, I am not actually part of a health care system. While my goal is to […]
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Clinician Groups: Amid Widespread Healthcare Consolidation, What Are Your Choices?
January 20th, 2016by: Dr. Angelo Falcone
It’s been described as “a cyclical arms race,” as well as a Game of Thrones-style struggle for dominance over the healthcare kingdom. Whatever you call it, the widespread consolidation of health insurers on the one side and hospitals and health systems on the other leaves clinician groups with a difficult choice to make. They can […]
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Wall Street Journal Should Dig Deeper on Observation Care
December 17th, 2015by: Dr. Robbin Dick
The Wall Street Journal’s Dec. 1 story on observation care is relatively even-handed and does a good job at bringing to light the highly complex web of regulation, which has gotten a little slice of the U.S. health care system to where it is today. The gist of the story is rather straightforward: 30-day readmissions […]
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Medicine and Meaning: Thoughts On Change
November 23rd, 2015by: Dr. Anoop Kumar
Ever notice how quickly things can change in the ED? One minute things seem to be well under control, the next minute several alarms are going off, three nurses are simultaneously asking for you, and there are no inpatient beds available. How’d that happen so quickly? In emergency medicine, we are experts in change – […]
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