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According to one study, of the $2.1 trillion the U.S. spent on health
care in 2006, nearly $650 billion was above what we would expect to
spend based on the level of U.S. wealth versus other nations. These
additional costs are attributable to $436 billion outpatient care and
another $186 billion of spending related to high administrative costs. (Accounting for the Cost of U.S. Health Care - A New Look on Why Americans Spend More. McKinsey & Company, 2007)
More than two-thirds of uninsured adults in the United States, worked
in 2005. In other words, 39.8 million workers had no health care
-- more than the population of Canada.
That said...Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians.
Breast cancer mortality is 9 percent higher, prostate cancer is 184
percent higher and colon cancer mortality among men is about 10 percent
higher than in the United States. (June O'Neill and Dave M. O'Neill, "Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada vs. the U.S.)
Nearly half of all Americans take at least one prescription drug and one in six Americans takes three or more medications. (SOURCE: Institute of Medicine (IOM) 2007.
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Upcoming events
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11th Annual Evidence-Based
Practice Conference
June 10 & 11, 2010
Translating Research into Best
Practice with Vulnerable Populations
The Role of Technology in
Advancing Evidence-Based Care
Call for Abstracts!! Deadline: October 19, 2009
Sponsored By: Center for Advancement of
Evidence-based Practice (CAEP), and Academy for Continuing
Education (ACE)
Click here for Conference Info
ASU College of Nursing & Health InnovationContact: Tel (602) 496-7431 |
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If you are interested in sponsoring the Master of Healthcare Innovation Program, please e-mail Dan Nienhauser.
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Innovation & Real Reform
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In a recent New Yorker magazine, an article by Atul Gawande points out
that in every industrialized nation the movement to reform health care begins
with stories about cruelty. Essentially, all the stories relate to how
very sick individuals needing essential services could not obtain them simply
because they could not pay for them. One wonders, however, if that isn't
just half the story of cruelty. While paying for health care is an
important and critical issue in any civilized country, actually getting good
health care is equally as important. It is here where the point of
significance in healthcare reform addresses the leadership of innovation.
It is important to recalibrate health insurance in order to make sure
that every person who needs healthcare can get it. That will certainly
require considerable innovation. But, in addition, the innovation leader
has to have a broader view of health reform simply because the ability to pay
for health care should also ensure confidence that one is getting relevant
viable and competent health services. And it is here where there is
precious little discussion in the public forum related to health care reform.
From
the provider's perspective, the brokenness in the health care system
just as strongly relates to the inadequacies of service as it does to
the inequities of payment. For the leader of innovation, issues related
to evidence, competence, technology, and efficacy drive the dialogue
regarding health reform. For the innovator, health reform is a
constant; a continuing dynamic of advancement and enhancements that
calls leadership to continually assess current service status and asked
the question "what's next" and how can we transform current practice in
a way that advances utility, convenience, quality, and outcome? For
the innovation leader, issues related to the how and what of health
service provision, what is actually provided, and the value of that
service lies at the heart of health system effectiveness.
Read more ...
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Spew and Flatten for Better Innovation
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As the director of the Academy for Continuing Education (ACE) at
Arizona State University College of Nursing and Health innovation I
have had a real world place to practice the innovation leadership
skills acquired in the MHI program. My intent is to describe some of
the ways we have started a culture of innovation and how it has
influenced our organization.
The first critical need was to
clarify a mission, vision, and values for ACE. It was essential that
we accomplished this as a team. The staff I now have the pleasure of
leading has been working at ACE for years. I wanted to tap into their
expertise and vision for ACE and expand it to the next level. I wanted
to create change and embed it into...
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Technology & Socio Techno Enhancement
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Technology in the MHI world may be just a tool to innovate,
but challenging jobs are much less challenging when one has the right tools!
Recently we launched our internal-oriented LinkedIn group to
begin a dialog, while providing an exposure platform to the rest of the
world. Perhaps LinkedIn will
someday reach a place where one can collaborate, share and communicate
seamlessly, but it isn't there yet, and it may never be able to catch up. LinkedIn does have scale unlike any
other business networking site though, and for this reason it is an important
window that needs to have access to our program!
The next phase will hopefully take us to an entirely new
collaborative level. And one is
not sure which ladder will best assist our climb up...
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NEXT: Tech tip
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That Wonderful Ctrl (Control) Key
There are many ways to quickly navigate your way through your documents and viewing. Try the help search function and check out that program's shortcuts!
Have a mouse with scroll wheel? Hold down the Ctrl (Control) key while you scroll and zoom-in and zoom-out with ease!
The Ctrl key is almost as useful as the "right click."
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