Posts Tagged with cost

by jantzl on July 30, 2020

I was listening to this old NPR interview of one of my business heroes Yvon Chouinard The focus of the interview is on how Patagonia wants you to buy less, so they create a high quality lifetime product with replaceable parts. You don’t need to continue to buy from them year after year. Because of the high quality and ...

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by jantzl on May 26, 2020

Long ago, you may not even remember the 1980s, when you bought a computer, you had to buy all of your components from the same brand. If your computer had a really fast processor but that company did a really bad job of making keyboards, you were stuck with it, at least for a little while. And maybe that wasn’t so bad, your computer was as fast as you wanted it to be and if you had to ...

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by adgrooms on May 11, 2019

Network systems comprise a pivotal piece of hospital infrastructure. Everything from communications to research to patient information is accessed through the vast wired and wireless network. We have made great advances in the speed and efficiency of these networks, but those institutions left behind could be affecting patient safety and losing millions of dollars in lost time.

We often ...

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by adgrooms on May 3, 2019

In my last post, I talked about a bill I received from a lab in error. The mistake was resolved, but not without some effort on my part. According to an article in Huffpo one researcher found that 30-40 percent of bills have mistakes and another researcher found the occurrence to ...

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