What Does Competition in the Health Care Have to do with Project Management?

Glad you asked. I’ve been extremely interested in the medical “problem” of late- rising costs, increased government intervention, corporate interests, doctor’s interests, insurance interests, and lack of ability of the patient to select procedures, doctors, and be cost effective. With political campaigns tied to universal health care, the issues are front and center.

To me the bottom line is increasing the flow of information on how services, costs and pricing work. Right now insurance and governmental programs tend to blur the visibility of that information. So, my first reaction to both is that they are full of waste.

The more you know about the system and information that serves you, whether in health care or any project, the more efficient and cost effective you can be in your decision making. By learning about how the process works, you can become better at performing within it and better identify waste.

Our projects are not limited to business- they are also personal. What are you doing to learn more about how the health care system operates? Are you interested in what impact you can have to increase competition in the system that will drive prices down? What can you personally do to cut medical costs? How can you apply this same type of thinking to your work and your company?

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