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Are You Ready for Intense Price Competition?
Note from Brian: The article below describes my recent keynote address to a large meeting of imaging center administrators, and appears in the Sept 2012 Radiology Today. I’m reposting it because it accurately reflects, in depth, the message that I tried … Continue reading
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Getting An EPIC Opinion Off My Chest
Vince Kuraitis Posted 12/1/11 on e-CareManagement Blog We need to be far more explicit in asking a subtle but critical question What are acceptable bases of competition in health care? My sense is that the distinctions here are not well understood and … Continue reading
Reminders of Art Buchwald
PAUL LEVY Originally published on [Not] Running A Hospital I cannot locate the article, but I think it was Art Buchwald who once wrote a humorous piece about competition between the two airlines who ran shuttle services between New York … Continue reading


