On March 17, 2010
Hospitals’ Dirty Little Secret: Technology Drives Healthcare Costs
A recent American Hospital Association survey of its members suggests that labor costs were the largest component of hospital expenditures from 2004-2008. But that's a red herring, since spending on high-tech medical equipment is a far more significant driver of
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The Alpharma Morphine Painkiller Probe Ain’t Over: “Unnamed Defendant” Still Twists in the Wind
The feds may be trying to send a message to makers of morphine-based painkillers in its $42.5 million settlement with Alpharma: Abuse your promotion of these drugs and individual members of management will face bans from doing business from the
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Government Health IT Push Encounters Some Hard Realities
The Obama Administration's health IT push has not taken into account the complexity of introducing EHRs or the resistance of doctors who don't see what's in it for them.
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On March 17, 2010
Attention Bosses: Your Employees Need to Watch March Madness
Every March we read the same stories, quoting the same economists, lamenting the arrival of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship tournament. Businesses will lose billions, they say, as workers troll the Web for deeper understanding of the Pythagorean calculation for
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On March 17, 2010
Wednesday Links: What Can You Start for $100?
Take a look at a sampling of bootstrap business ideas from Pamela Slim and Chris Guillebeau's $100 Business Forum.
Umair Haque sizes up his (widely panned) SXSW interview with Twitter co-founder Ev Williams.
Chris Cameron at ReadWriteStart details how…
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On March 17, 2010
Documenting Financial History
Michael Lewis’s latest book, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, was released this week to a lot of media attention. We’ll review the book more in depth on this site and elsewhere over the coming weeks, but its…
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On March 17, 2010
Exit Your Company the Right Way
The first step in any successful endeavor is defining what a win will look like once the project is complete. When an artist begins a painting, he typically has a vision in his mind of what the painting will look…
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We’re All Socialists Now: Publicis CEO Cuts 75% of His Pay in “Solidarity” With Workers
Publicis (PUB) CEO Maurice Levy scored a double PR coup today: the Silver Fox gave up his 2009 bonus "as a gesture of solidarity" with his employees, who have suffered a salary freeze and 2,500 layoffs; and he used the
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Anxieties Besiege FCC’s Broadband Game Plan
The Federal Communication Commission's national broadband plan, formally unveiled this week, certainly has lofty goals: Provide greater access to broadband, increase broadband speeds, help establish a national emergency network, help improve the economy and ensure the U.S.…
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Let 1,000 Olive Gardens Bloom: Darden Exec Reveals Fantasy Plan
Does America need another 7 million square feet of chain restaurant space? A top executive at the Olive Garden and Red Lobster chains recently said he thinks so, revealing his company's plan to open 1,000 more of its cavernous restaurants. Maybe
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