The Impact on the Global Financial Crisis, Part II

MedTouch Webinar: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Healthcare, Part II from MedTouch on Vimeo. The news about the financial sector meltdown is everywhere, but how will it impact healthcare? In this second part of a special webinar, Paul Griffiths, the CEO of MedTouch, will walk through how the sub-prime crisis led into Wall St....

The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Healthcare, Part I

The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Healthcare, Part I from MedTouch on...

The Global Financial Crisis and Healthcare: A Special Webinar

If, like me, you’ve been watching the global financial crisis with awe and dismay, you’ve probably started wondering how all of this will impact healthcare. In brief, there are three main financial instruments that have kept many hospitals open in the last few years — bonds, investments, and charitable giving — and each...

Physician Shortages: 3 Big Reasons It’s Getting Harder to Find Doctors… And the Adverse Impacts to Patient Care

We’ve done a fair amount of research this year on the impact of the physician shortage and how it will hamstring the marketing, planning, and delivery of healthcare services in the future. The silent killer is patient access.   The less chance a patient has of being seen quickly, the worse off he or she will be.  Having an adequate supply...

Why Healthcare Spending Costs Don’t Matter: A Response to WSJ’s “GOPers Think US Health Care Rocks…”

Wall Street Journal’s Article, “GOPers Think U.S. Health Care Rocks, Dems Not So Much” “America has the best medical care in the world,” Rudy Giuliani said last year. Most Republicans agree with him, but most Democrats don’t, according to a new poll from the Harvard School of Public Health. The difference is striking: 68%...

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