Add to ORKGOne is always hesitant to speak about the future. A famous philosopher from New York, Yogi Berra, said Making predictions is difficult, especially about the future, and I have some trepidation about doing so now. There is also the difficulty of understanding what really has happened in the past. I recall the Bolshevik general in 1917 who said The future is clear, but the past is very murky. We anticipate the future with more clarity than is justified, even as we disagree on what is happening right now or what happened before. In that vein, I will describe the role of the American hospital in our health care system, and the challenges it must meet, reviewing first the murky past by summarizing trends that have made hospitals what they ar...
As recently as the mid- to late-nineteenth century, it could honestly be said that there was no medi...
The complexity of the United States healthcare system is well known, as are its challenges and short...
Objectives: Health care systems worldwide are changing and taking new forms. The old, more hierarchi...
The modern hospital has grown from a simple setting for the practice of medicine to a large, complex...
We are on the eve of a revolution in health policy that will forever change our way of thinking abou...
I ask you to think about our health care system. Think beyond the issues that are in front of us tod...
Healthcare has been often described as the most complex human organization ever devised.The life of ...
Many healthcare management decisions today, such as those about facility construction, will have imp...
During a long history, hospitals were continuously changing so that diversity is one of their charac...
The science of medicine is changing at an incredible rate. New treatments, technologies, and biologi...
Problems with the U.S. health care system—including the rising costs of prescription drugs, the curr...
The past decades have been a time of rapid technological change in health care, but technological ch...
The health care system in the United States has been experiencing rapid change for decades. Beginnin...
In the current editorial, I delineate the factors that must constitute a recipient rights-based heal...
There is a fundamentally new dynamic in American health care, one that has yet to be fully experienc...
As recently as the mid- to late-nineteenth century, it could honestly be said that there was no medi...
The complexity of the United States healthcare system is well known, as are its challenges and short...
Objectives: Health care systems worldwide are changing and taking new forms. The old, more hierarchi...
The modern hospital has grown from a simple setting for the practice of medicine to a large, complex...
We are on the eve of a revolution in health policy that will forever change our way of thinking abou...
I ask you to think about our health care system. Think beyond the issues that are in front of us tod...
Healthcare has been often described as the most complex human organization ever devised.The life of ...
Many healthcare management decisions today, such as those about facility construction, will have imp...
During a long history, hospitals were continuously changing so that diversity is one of their charac...
The science of medicine is changing at an incredible rate. New treatments, technologies, and biologi...
Problems with the U.S. health care system—including the rising costs of prescription drugs, the curr...
The past decades have been a time of rapid technological change in health care, but technological ch...
The health care system in the United States has been experiencing rapid change for decades. Beginnin...
In the current editorial, I delineate the factors that must constitute a recipient rights-based heal...
There is a fundamentally new dynamic in American health care, one that has yet to be fully experienc...
As recently as the mid- to late-nineteenth century, it could honestly be said that there was no medi...
The complexity of the United States healthcare system is well known, as are its challenges and short...
Objectives: Health care systems worldwide are changing and taking new forms. The old, more hierarchi...