by Steve Berkowitz | Sep 26, 2023 | AI in Healthcare, Health care reform
Preventing Medical Errors: An SOS to Artificial Intelligence It has been almost 25 years since the shocking landmark study from the Institute of Medicine “To Err is Human” (1999). It stated that preventable errors were responsible for up to 100,000 deaths in the USA...
by Steve Berkowitz | Aug 14, 2017 | Health care reform, The Future of Administration
We all recall the play “Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare where the new emperor is warned by a soothsayer to “Beware the Ides of March”. Whether that occurred or not is historical debate, but we all know the outcome: Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the...
by Steve Berkowitz | Aug 7, 2017 | Health care reform, The Future of Administration
Every day that passes without some form of health care reform legislation makes me more and more frustrated and frankly angry. I completely understand the complexity of health care as an industry, but why is Congress so paralyzed to do anything? I think we would be...
by Steve Berkowitz | Apr 24, 2017 | Health care reform
A great cause that needs to go further We have seen a great deal of progress in getting the patient more involved with his/her health through the process of health literacy. As defined by HHS almost ten years ago, health literacy is “the degree to which individuals...
by Steve Berkowitz | Mar 31, 2017 | Health care reform
It has been frustrating to say the least, to watch the political process unfold regarding health care reform. What was once an “immediate repeal and replace” mandate as campaigned by most Republicans has now disintegrated into multiple diverse factions, and these...
by Steve Berkowitz | Mar 10, 2017 | Health care reform, The Future of Administration
I wrote a blog last January talking about the Consensus Trap and how a seemingly sound and preferred interactional process could yield unexpected and detrimental results. As I stated, consensus is a political agreement. It is not necessarily based upon the...