Can one van improve a population’s health?
We don't talk about "bottom line" here at Johns Hopkins Medicine International as much as we do about "mission." In a nutshell, the mission is to improve health and health care around the world. One...
View ArticleNot Just a Pretty Face
Recently, two of Johns Hopkins Medicine's international affiliate hospitals were named to HealthExecNews' list of "The 25 Most Beautiful Hospitals in the World." One is Hospital Punta Pacífica, in...
View ArticleGuest Blogger: Edward D. Miller, M.D.
June 30 was Ed Miller’s last day as the first dean/CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine. This marks the closing of a critical chapter in our history, and the dawn of the next era as we welcome Paul Rothman to...
View ArticleWhen Local Care Can’t Do It All
I’ve written about the hype that often accumulates around “medical tourism,” which typically involves patients paying mostly out of pocket to travel in hopes of getting a better deal on elective...
View ArticleIn Praise—But Not Imitation—of Our Colleagues
We’re very proud of the role we’ve played in helping to pioneer the relatively new field of global collaborative health care. But I frequently go out of my way to make it clear that Johns Hopkins...
View ArticleIs U.S. Health Care Really Among the World’s Worst? Wrong Question.
I ran across a post recently on The Health Care Blog that takes issue with the oft-heard notion that U.S. health care is not only the most costly in the world, it delivers poor outcomes compared to...
View ArticleWhy Big Data Doesn’t Replace Big Ideas
“Big data” has been a hot topic for the past several years. The term can refer to making use of any massive, complex collection of information, but one important application is that of building and...
View ArticleWhen Being the Best Isn’t Good Enough
When U.S. News & World Report’s “best hospital” rankings came out last year, I took the occasion to note here in this blog that The Johns Hopkins Hospital, after more than two decades of being the...
View ArticleIs a Single-Payer System the Answer? It Depends, What’s the Question?
There’s been a growing amount of attention paid recently in the U.S. media to the question of whether our country should offer universal health coverage, and move to a “single-payer” health care...
View ArticleWhy Nursing Is Becoming Even More Critical to Health Care
Nursing is a linchpin to health care success, Johns Hopkins Medicine International has found again and again as we help collaborators around the world sustainably improve health care systems. Raising...
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