Paul Rosen

Paul Rosen, MD was named ‘One of the First 100 Innovators’ by the U.S Federal Government Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He is a blogger, podcast host, TEDx speaker, author, and teacher. Dr. Rosen is a pediatric rheumatologist at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children. He serves as the Clinical Director of Service and Operational Excellence for Nemours. He is an associate professor of pediatrics at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at the Thomas Jefferson University. He is the director of the physician executive leadership program at SKMC. He serves as volunteer faculty at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. Dr. Rosen was named the head of the Philadelphia/Delaware chapter of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (SoPE). He teaches medical students about improving the patient experience. He received a masters of public health degree from Harvard University and a masters of medical management degree from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr.Rosen’s interests include patient-physician communication, family-centered care, team building across health disciplines, the patient experience, and improvement of health care delivery.

Doctor Pay for Performance: Benefit or Whack-a-Mole Solution?

Healthcare is not short of controversy these days. Transformational change is disrupting every corner of the industry. One of the questions facing many doctors is how did I get here? Remembering back to medical school, we were passionate, committed, empathic individuals choosing to serve a higher calling. We took out loans to pay for medical

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The Disruption of Healthcare Has Already Begun (Part-I)

I was planning to write a piece on the future of medicine. However, the future of medicine has already arrived. The disruption of a system plagued by high cost, waste of resources, medical errors, and system-centered care, is currently being transformed. Over $2 billion in capital is entering the healthcare space each quarter to support

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Is Your Practice and Patient Experience Living in the 21st Century?

All too often, it seems like 21st century medicine is stuck with outdated technology and attitudes about doctor-patient communications. Most contemporary consumers—the healthcare customers we call patients—are empowered and connected by the Internet, email and near-immediate, go-anywhere mobile communications. But contrast that reality with this experience with my pediatrician’s office. My wife came home from

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Can Healthcare be “Zillowed?”

In their new book Zillow Talk: The New Rules of Real Estate, Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff and Zillow chief economist Stan Humphries describe the results of their disruption of the real estate industry. Rascoff and Humphries use data collection and data sharing so that end-users have all the information they need to buy and sell

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Engaging the Mommy Bloggers – Influential Voice in Healthcare

Who are the mommy bloggers? Every pediatrician across the country—as well as family physicians and other specialists—should be asking themselves this question…and consider the benefits of engaging with their influential voice in healthcare. Some have frowned on the term “mommy blogger,” but despite the discussion about phraseology, mommy blogger has become the term with staying

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The No Wait Emergency Room

The other day, I was asked, “What is your definition of a no wait ER?” I did not mean to be sarcastic, but I think my answer sounded that way: “It is when you go to the ER in a hospital and you don’t have to wait.”  Let me explain. A no wait ER means

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