Wes Chapman's Blog

Opportunities in Healthcare M&A The FTC and the Alphabet Soup Antidote - An Information Driven Structural Revolution October 15, 2012 Wes Chapman My friend Pete is a senior player in a major regional academic medical center, and a terrific raconteur. He was hilarious in [...]

Patient Reported Outcomes Choosing Appropriate Metrics from a Still-Evolving Toolset By Wes Chapman, Mike Choukas, Charles Hutchinson PhD, Steve Maker, Mario Martinez Purpose This paper defines a set of criteria for choosing Patient Reported Outcome metrics for use in oncology, and lists five PROs [...]

Oncology Pathways and Metrics: A Taxonomy of Leading Oncology Organizations By Wes Chapman, Steve Maker, and Mario Martinez Purpose This paper is a short catalog of organizations that we believe are the most significant clearinghouses of clinical pathways and quality metrics for oncology. [...]

By Wes Chapman; Charles Hutchinson, PhD; & Michael Choukas, MBA Preface This is the second of four articles regarding quality issues in the delivery of clinical healthcare. The first looked at the popular methods for quality improvement in healthcare, and their applications [...]

By Wes Chapman; Charles Hutchinson, PhD; & Don Bialek, MD Preface This is the first of four articles regarding quality issues in the delivery of clinical healthcare. This article looks at the popular methods for quality improvement in healthcare, and their applications [...]