by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Apr 8, 2022 | Health, Healthcare Innovation
As I write this post, I am exactly two weeks out from my hip replacement. Although it’s a big surgery (and no surgery, let alone a big one, is an enjoyable experience) the post-op course has been smooth. I’ve needed no pain medicines other than the...
by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Mar 28, 2022 | Healthcare Innovation
In the pre-op room, surgeons will sign the extremity they will be operating on to avoid the big mistake of operating on the contralateral (other, i.e. wrong!) extremity. In the photo above you can see is my surgeon’s signature just prior to a my left hip joint...
by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Jun 24, 2021 | Healthcare Innovation
I believe that innovation doesn’t always come with a high price tag. Sometimes all it takes is putting together existing tools and relationships in a new way and then taking action. Here’s an example I am currently working on. At a recent medical conference on...
by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Jun 22, 2021 | Healthcare Ethics, Healthcare Innovation, Weight Loss
Years ago, at the large, high-quality healthcare organization at which I was working, I proposed that we should consider removing (or drastically modifying) the junk food vending machines at the organization’s various sites. My argument was rather simple (and...
by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Jun 15, 2021 | Amazon, Healthcare Innovation
Here’s a link to Version Museum—A Visual History of Your Favorite Technology. I’d suggest that healthcare executives take a hard look at Amazon’s website history and ask themselves what the fundamental difference is between Amazon’s approach to their...
by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Jun 8, 2021 | Health, Healthcare Innovation, Healthcare Revenue, Weight Loss
I am an advocate for people doing their best to use people-first language in discussing obesity (for detailed information on this topic, there is no better website better than the Obesity Action Coalition), especially in professional situations, however, I do think...
