Steven Eastaugh | Former Economics Teacher of 37 years at Cornell University and George Washington University

Steven Eastaugh

Former Economics Teacher of 37 years at Cornell University and George Washington University

Steven Eastaugh
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Enhancing Productivity

Enhancing productivity better balances all factors of service delivery to get the greatest output for the least input effort. The best productivity programs are rapid, large in scale, cost beneficial, and provide benchmarks for assessing future performance. Programs that focus on the activities of individuals ignore the two greatest keys to improvement: work-team organization and acuity-driven workload staffing. Gainsharing incentive compensation plans can foster long term productivity gains.

Strategic Marketing in Selecting Your Service-Mix

Do not confuse bad performance with destiny. You can improve your position with the right management and incentives. One must manage risk in today’s rapidly changing marketplace by surveying product, place, price, and promotion. The benefits and costs of both specialization and diversification are surveyed. Increasingly, specialization helps trim expenses and enhances service quality.

Future Options for Healthcare Reform

Our past solutions are our current problems. The consumer marketplace system encourages demand and diversity, whereas the control system leads to uniformity and possibly rationing. American business is increasingly looking to Europe and Asia for global budget strategies to contain price, quantity, and total expense. Can we continue our tradition of resisting a comprehensive single system, given that it is very expensive and duplicative? Current policy trends point in all different directions like a pile of jackstraws.

Will Managed Care Evolve or Wither?

Physicians and patients are increasingly dissatisfied with managed care. Some HMOs and PPOs have made the ultimate cost sacrifice by simply closing down. In order to survive, managed care must improve customer relations, trim paperwork, develop new service-lines, and utilize life-cycle costing. Employers and the public want their healthcare to offer a delicate balance as a social good and a consumer good.

Cost-Benefit Analysis
The Value of Life & Limb

Cost-benefit analysis becomes critical as the cost of new biomedical technology skyrockets beyond any recent projections. A good analysis must: (1) make the evaluation as complex as necessary, (2) assign values to resources that reflect their opportunity costs, (3) avoid zero counting of resources, and (4) avoid double counting of resources. We are going to have to develop and disseminate better information; some small fraction of what we now spend on healthcare could be better spent in other areas. Our methods to evaluate the value of life have improved for collecting better data and incorporating intangible life valuations into the calculus for weighing benefits against costs.

areer Development in STEM Science Technology Engineering & Math

Dr. Eastaugh tracks caree options in the STEM field based on his 38 years as a University professor, and his own career experience since being a winner in the Westinghouse STS Science Talent Search in 1970 as a high school senior. In 2016 Dr. Eastaugh was the keynote for the 75th Annual Intel Westinghouse STS. The STS has produced 9 Nobel prize winners.

Science and Public Policy

Demands are infinite, whereas resources are finite, and science offers help in solving the critical issues facing mankind. Science in the modern world can enhance quality of life, reduce the risks of climate change and enhance productivity and efficiency. But science must also address the risks, from excess unemployment to meltdown. Government must be involved to police the marketplace and offer funds for basic research. We must find a balance in funding for basic and applied research.

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