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We don’t build each issue of HMI WORLD around a common theme, but sometimes those themes emerge on their own. The theme that jumps out in the November-December 2007 issue is outputs.
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Podcast: HMI on National Public Radio
In early November, National Public Radio program “All Things Considered” aired a piece on the emerging health care networks of India, like long-time HMI partner Wockhardt Hospitals Limited. The archived audio of the program is available below:
From the full transcript available on the NPR website:
Vishal Bali (pictured on the right), CEO of the Wockhardt Hospitals Group, says his company — far from the largest Indian hospital chain, but with big ambitions — formed an alliance with Harvard because “we felt what we needed was a partner who would hand-hold us into getting the best practices from the American heath care system.”
The chief hand-holder is 8,000 miles away in Boston. Dr. Robert Crone, president and CEO of Harvard Medical International, says he wants to lift medical care around the world to Harvard’s standards.
“We don’t think twice about the fact that, no matter where a 747 made in the United States flies, anywhere in the world, the standards are the same,” Crone says. “Why doesn’t that happen in medicine? Well, it’s beginning to happen. It’s going to take another decade or more. But we have to stop thinking so provincially about health care.”
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