by John Cunningham

Healthcare is one of the very few industries where there is a high dependence on the performance and effectiveness of the supply chain, and low level of engagement within senior management. Although hospitals have begun to elevate the supply chain leader to a seat within mid-level management, very few have brought them into the c-suite. Why?

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by Christopher Cornue

As we continue to explore what our future healthcare may look like, I'm recommending a site that does an excellent job summarizing the various plans, and progress made. The Kaiser Family Foundation (http://healthreform.kff.org/) provides great trending information, polls, and a wonderful side-by-side comparison of the various reform proposals.

If you're looking for one place for updates on what's going on out there with the reform debate, I'd suggest bookmarking this the Kaiser Family Foundation healthcare reform site, and check back frequently.

by Dr. Kenneth H. Cohn

The purpose of this post is to summarize conversations that I have had with three physicians this summer about healthcare reform. I feel blessed to have a group of friends from medical school who rent a house on Cape Cod every July and to their spouses for making it happen.

As baby boomers who still view the practice of medicine as a calling, we recognize that many Gen-Xers do not see the world the same way.

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by Dan Bowman -- Associate Editor, FierceHealthcare

FierceHealthcare recently got the opportunity to talk with Dr. Jason Bhan, a practicing family physician co-founder of Ozmosis: The Trusted Physician's Network. Prior to starting Ozmosis, Dr. Bhan served as a consultant and medical adviser to Medsite, where he helped develop the company's core strategy for e-detailing and online physician retention. Dr. Bhan also served as the Medical and Technology Officer for VirtualMed, Inc. and helped launch MiamiHealth.com, which provided physicians with an online presence.

We asked Dr. Bhan about the early days of Ozmosis, as well as his opinions on physicians migrating online and healthcare reform.

FierceHealthcare: Please briefly explain what Ozmosis is for people who might not have heard of it.

Jason Bhan: The concept behind Ozmosis is that physicians need a place where they can exchange medical, clinical, practice management and policy information, discuss cases, review journal articles or any other information on the web in a trusted environment; somewhere where there aren't other eyes looking in, and they can be assured that the other people they're talking to on the site are, in fact, physicians, peers or colleagues.

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by Christopher Cornue

Many of you have probably already seen "10 Steps to Better Health Care," the Op-Ed in The New York Times printed last week by Drs. Atul Gawande, Don Berwick, Elliott Fisher, and Mark McClelland. If you haven't, it deserves a read.

Whether or not you support the ongoing efforts by President Obama and Congress to create Health Care Reform, this op-ed makes a very striking point: that all healthcare/medicine is local. In reflection, I believe this is one of the fundamental differences of our healthcare system here in the United States compared to the rest of the world.

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by Anthony Cirillo

There is a movement afoot. Some call it culture change. Hospitals call it patient-centered care. The long-term care industry calls it person-centered care. Whatever you call it, for the most part it's not working. Everyone has an opinion. Here is mine.

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by Christopher Cornue

I had the opportunity this week to meet Stephen M. R. Covey and talk with him following his presentation in New York about the importance of Trust. It was an amazing presentation where he described the impact trust has in organizations...specifically healthcare organizations.

During his talk, he discussed some very sobering statistics about those of us in healthcare. Specifically, he quoted several studies that demonstrated we have significant trust issues.

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