Health Care Strategist

Ed Bennett maintains the "big Hospital Social Networking List." As of August 2010, there were 825 hospitals on: 391 YouTube Channels 631 Facebook pages 634 Twitter accounts 87 blogs. Also included are Linkedin profiles, website links and traffic statistics.  

"Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world." (Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 2, 08-22-04)

Trends are a planner's best friends and the raw materials from which insightful strategies are constructed.  From Trendwatching.com, here are 15 tips on tracking and applying trends . (Note: One of the world's leading trend firms, trendwatching.com sends out its free, monthly Trend Briefings to more than 160,000 subscribers worldwide.)

This quote recently took its rightful place at the top of my "all-time great quotes" list: "A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled." Sir Barnett Cocks (1907 - 1989) We all need a map - a personal GPS - for avoiding that dark street.  Maybe this book can help.

Wondering how to pay all those newly-employed physicians?  Stay away from methodologies based on charges or collections, says South Bend, IN attorney Bob Wade . According to Wade, a much better and safer approach is a mixture of base salary - derived from major national surveys - and an at-risk component based on RVUs. (Thanks to AIS's Health Business Daily for the heads-up.)

From Jetson Green blog: construction of the first C3 Modular Home is underway in Chicago.  The brainchild of my friend Jeff Sommers and his firm Square Root Architecture + Design, the home offers numerous green elements such as Energy Star appliances, WaterSense fixtures, a mini-split HVAC system, multiple layers of insulation, high performance windows, and a solar thermal system. Other features include; "(An) exterior (featuring) a rainscreen application covered in reclaimed barn wood, fiber cement board, and painted metal siding. The 2,000 square-foot home (has) four bedrooms and a private interior courtyard, which (draws) natural light into the interior. Otherwise, C3 Modular will be built with FSC-certified wood framing, low-VOC finishes, paints, and sealants, and natural hickory and cork flooring. Also, six 50-gallon rain barrels will accumulate water for landscaping and garden use." Check out the photos.  Full disclosure: I've served as an informal strateg...