Some may think throwing more money around will solve all the ills of American medicine. At the Cancer Treatment Centers of America, we think otherwise as a result of our own experiences. For instance, ...

What does car manufacturer Toyota and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University have in common? More than you might think. Hospitalists at the Palo Alto, Calif.-based children’s ...

Lean Healthcare Management adapts principles originally developed in manufacturing to the complex, dynamic environment of health services. This approach aims to reduce waste, improve efficiency and ...

When faced with financial pressures, hospital leaders often try to reduce costs by laying off hospital employees. This is, in a way, understandable, since payroll makes up 60 to 70 percent of a ...

In today's business environment, each department of an organization has to balance various important tasks with increasingly limited resources. For example, as the chief operating and financial ...