HealthLeaders Media Global - April 29, 2008 | Make Up Your Mind


Make Up Your Mind Rick Johnson, Senior Online Editor A hospital's continual advancement of strategic goals just won't happen in a rigid top-down leadership structure. I talked with a new CEO who was in the midst of dealing with an organizational culture that sucked him into just about all hospital decisions—the strategic, the operational, and the mundane. This organization might have ambitions to become a world-class international hospital, but the CEO knows it won't happen if he doesn't have empowered leaders among his clinical and administrative staff. [Read More]
		April 29, 2008

Editor's Picks

Ignore this warning
This is not healthcare specific, but a McKinsey survey found that nearly 70% of executives around the world say global social, environmental, and business trends are increasingly important to corporate strategy—but few companies act on them. As the cost of healthcare in America compared to global alternatives is causing payers to investigate international networks, this study lends evidence to the thought that the U.S. health system won't find ways to control cost anytime soon. (This study is free, but you have to register to read it.) [Read More]

Hospital management in Ethiopia
So you think your job as a hospital administrator is tough, huh? Would you like to trade for a day with an administrator in Ethiopia? Didn't think so. We often read stories of the clinical issues in the developing world's hospitals and clinics, but this article by the Yale School of Management shows how much need there is for hospital administration as well. [Read More]

Healthcare isn't local
Fast Company covered the globalization of healthcare in depth this month. The article has some great quotes. Here's one of my favorites from Ori Karev, CEO of UnitedHealth International: "Once [insurers] understand the ramifications of this, you'll see large players start crafting policies that allow people to receive treatment overseas. I think you'll find most of us exploring this. We are a business at the end of the day." Indeed, insurers are exploring adding global hospitals to their networks, as I wrote in last week's column. [Read More]

Global Health Headlines

Egypt eyes $12 billion in tourism by 2011
Yahoo News, April 29, 2008

Philippines health officials: No kidneys for foreigners
AP/Yahoo News, April 29, 2008

Judge orders Philippines company to pay $100 million for fraud
AP/Yahoo News - April 25, 2008

Bogus nurse dupes England's NHS
The Daily Mail - April 29, 2008

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