TUBA
The other day, I, along with two student leaders from an organization called Net Impact, met with Amy Klosterman. Amy is involved with an organization she calls TUBA, the acronym for The...
View ArticlePrescriptions for Exercise
Yesterday, I came upon an article in the Wall Street Journal that talked about prescriptions for exercise. This article fascinated me for several reasons.I have not been to a medical care provider for...
View ArticleRemote Exercise Partners
The most recent article that I found in the Wall Street Journal focusing on exericse talks about two individuals in Tennessee and New York City who take a spin class together. Why do I find this...
View ArticleEpidemics and Public Goods
In a recent article about Ebola in the Wall Street Journal, Peter Piot, the Director of the London School of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, referred to epidemics like Ebola as what economists refer...
View ArticleMarket Segmentation for Personal Training and the "Information" Economy
In the Wall Street Journal on January 2, there was an interesting article about personal trainers. In this article it talked about trainers who work at gyms and trainers who work privately. The...
View ArticlePatient-Centered Supply Chain
In thinking about interesting health care finance topics, the article here caught my attention. The article discusses the concept of building a so-called "patient-centered supply chain." The key is...
View ArticleNursing Staff Levels and Payments Related to Outcomes
An interesting news item describes a study that was planned in the state of Minnesota but that was unable to be completed. Some say that the hospitals chose not to provide information. The hospital...
View ArticleColon Cancer Screening
Screening for colon cancer creates some interesting challenges. I've never spoken with anyone who looks forward to a colonoscopy. But finding colon cancer early through appropriate screening makes it...
View ArticleWhole Foods and Health Care?
There was a recent article discussing the possibility of Whole Foods beginning to offer health-related retreats and health care to the general public. Whole Foods is a store that offers many organic...
View ArticleICD-10 Debate
An article talking about the upcoming implementation of ICD-10 raises some interesting questions about how the implementation of a new coding system will impact providers. The change from ICD-9, a...
View ArticleEndoscopes and Drug Resistant Bacteria
There has been significant coverage of infections due to drug resistant bacteria related to the use of an endoscope. One example of this coverage comes from from the Wall Street Journal. The gist of...
View ArticleComments from a Student Organization Event
[As you read this, remember that these words were meant to be spoken. Not every sentence is necessarily complete and some repetition is useful in the spoken word that may not appear in a purely...
View ArticleAffordable Care Act and Changes in Uninsured
A press release about a Gallup poll that provides details about the number of uninsured individuals in the United States. The number has gone down from 17.3 percent of the population to 13.8 percent...
View ArticleAffordable Care Act and Disparities in Access
A new research brief from the Commonwealth Fund focuses on the potential relationship between the Affordable Care Act and a variety of measures of disparities. In short, the authors of the brief used...
View ArticleBusiness with Humanity in Mind
I have both a personal blog and a professional blog. It is usually pretty clear to me which blog an entry belongs in. For this one, I debated.I don't usually think of writing about the Roman Catholic...
View ArticleFirst Impressions are Key
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of meeting a member of the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Immunology for the first time. He came to visit me in my office at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business...
View ArticleIt’s a Matter of Perspective
Sometimes, it is hard to remember that not everyone comes to the table with the same information, the same background, and the same ideas of cause and effect or automatically draws the same conclusions...
View ArticleOwning My Position
So, I have held my position of Vice Dean for Education at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School for a little over two years now. Today, I felt for the very first time, that I fully "owned" the...
View ArticleVaccine Injury Payouts
A very interesting article in the Wall Street Journal today discussed the increase in payouts for vaccine related injuries. This is interesting for a number of reasons:(1) The claims are paid from a...
View ArticleSoda and Cities
The ongoing issue of how public health officials should be trying to minimize overweight and obesity in the United States brings us once again to the issue of sugar-sweetened sodas. A piece in the Wall...
View ArticleThe Risks We Are Willing to Take
There was just an article in the Wall Street Journal (http://www.wsj.com/articles/poor-contact-lens-hygiene-puts-users-at-risk-of-serious-infections-1441648413) that provided a list of poor hygiene...
View ArticleMentoring and Parallels
I am on a committee at the University level that is looking at issues of faculty mentoring. It is interesting to me that most faculty think of mentoring only as research mentoring. I think of...
View ArticleGiving, Mentoring, and Financial Literacy
This morning, I had the opportunity to attend a breakfast that was hosted by the United Way and sponsored by a central Maryland for profit organization (so that the money did not need to come from...
View ArticleHow to Demonstrate an Understanding of a Concept
Recently, the Chinese economy and its growth have been in the news a lot. One thing that caught my attention was the statement that the rate of growth in the Chinese economy had slowed more than was...
View ArticleIs there a Path?
Yesterday, I was involved in a program for talented youth in which we were introducing the children to business concepts. I had great help from four fellow faculty, from two current students, and from...
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