The New Script for the Work of Health in America
Wednesday, 08. 29. 2012 – Category: All Blog Posts, Healthcare Staffing
Our board member Dr. Tim Porter O’Grady submitted the following guest blog interpreting the radical transformation of the US healthcare system required by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Technology can help, but the biggest changes will begin with linking process to outcomes via intelligent process design and meaningful analytics.
Now that the Supreme Court [...]
Staff Self-Scheduling: Ownership and Investment by the Professional Worker
Tuesday, 03. 6. 2012 – Category: All Blog Posts, Healthcare Staffing, Workforce Software
The following guest blog post is provided by our board member Dr. Tim Porter-O’Grady. In it, he argues for the benefits of employee self-scheduling in the healthcare environment. In addition to the citations he includes below, readers can also learn more about self-scheduling best practices in our recent publication “Elements of Successful Organizations”.
As viable as [...]
Post-digital Health Leadership: Challenge and Capacity
Thursday, 04. 7. 2011 – Category: All Blog Posts, Management Tips
Our board member, Dr. Tim Porter-O’Grady, contributed today’s guest blog post regarding the importance of evidence (data)-driven decision making and service delivery to achieving the effective transformation of our healthcare organizations.
Recently, Michael Porter and colleagues have refocused our attention on the central attributes of a successful health system (1). Within the context of a value [...]
Podcast on Changing Workforce Demographics
Wednesday, 10. 20. 2010 – Category: All Blog Posts, Podcast
Earlier this month, I had a discussion with Workforce Institute board members David Creelman, Mark Lange and Dr. Tim Porter O’Grady about their perspectives on how changes in the age demographics of the workplace are likely to impact organizations. There have been multiple stories about this in the news lately including this recent NPR broadcast [...]
Creating a Good Fit for Quality of Care
Tuesday, 10. 12. 2010 – Category: All Blog Posts
Today’s post is written by Dr. Tim Porter-O’Grady, a member of the board of advisors for the Workforce Institute at Kronos. A long time nursing champion and educator, he writes here about the importance of collaboration between health care providers and vendors in the drive to optimize the design and application of workforce management solutions [...]
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