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Today as more big corporations capture national attention as they enter the fray to "fix" health care, you will see more promotions by a wide range of corporations. Many of them brand spanking new and financed by those who already profit most, including their health care investments. These consultants, corporations, and "experts" are complicating not only the work of those who deliver the care, but also their lives. Micromanagement of costs and of quality are still considered to be "good" even though the evidence base indicates no improvements in cost saving or in outcomes. Micromanagment of health care steals the dollars needed to support those who deliver the care and also steals time from their relationships with patients, team members, and family members. The same is true with micromanagement and measurement focus in education. Together these dollar diversions of tens of billions result in better for the few in higher concentrations ...

By - Pallvit Jain, Student of PGDM-Healthcare Management at Goa Institute of Management Consider the following statement: Doctor to Patient, “Take Omeprazole 20mg on empty stomach every day for 5days” Would you consider this statement enough for giving direction of dosage to patient? Now consider another statement: “Take the tablet omeprazole 20mg empty stomach, every day for next 5days. Have meal only after 20min of dosage”. The two statements above though intended to same patient with same dosage instructions convey different meaning. The first statement lacks information about time consumption of medicine, while the other statement specifies clearly the medicine consumption time. The question here is; will the two statements make difference in treatment of patient considering the same medicine is being consumed? The answer for this is Yes. Food consumed immediately after omeprazole medicine will affect efficacy of drug; Omeprazole medicine gets degraded in the stomach due to acidic ...