Hospitals often use surveys as a weapon to attack hospital-based groups. No matter who runs the survey, they are prone to error, misuse and out right abuse. In fact over the last three decades, I’ve never seen a medical staff survey that wasn’t defective. Querying all of the psychiatrists on staff about the quality of…
Author: Mark
The End of Healthcare Symbiosis Might Just Kill the Host (and End the Career of the Hospital CEO)
The move by hospitals to “strengthen” hospital-based departments, and the hospital’s own finances, by outsourcing to so-called national groups and “contract management companies” might just result in the destruction of the hospital. The chances are even higher that it will end the careers of many hospital executives. Over the last 30 to 40 years, both…
Hostess Twinkies and Hospital-Centric Healthcare – Podcast
Does the death of Hostess offers a glimpse into the future of hospital-centric healthcare.
Employment Insecurity
Have they got a deal for you. As a physician, you’re concerned about increasing competition, declining reimbursement, and, of course, the impact of the ACA. So, you’ve been thinking, as have many, many of your colleagues, that it’s time to give up independent practice, whether truly solo practice or as a member of a group….
No Meeting of the Minds
Is your medical group slowing down success, wasting time in management meetings? Imagine a group that holds a meeting of its bloated board each week. Over a dozen people sit at the table, each putting in his three or four cents worth, even when he or she has so sense. Protecting fiefdoms. Feigning expertise. Micromanaging. (Micromanagement…
All Hospitals Should Be Physician Controlled – Podcast
Why should hospitals be run by nonphysicians?
Top Down Healthcare is Killing Your Business and (Literally) Killing You and Me
For hundreds of years, innovation has driven improvement in medicine. Innovation in patient care. Innovation in business models. Innovation in treatment.
A Kodak Moment
I remember, as a kid, walking around Disneyland, noticing yellow “no parking” size signs labeled Kodak Moment. They indicated a great vantage point for taking a photo. Yet today Kodak is in bankruptcy, its core film business gutted by the digital camera.
Tying Your Medical Group’s Future to a Rock – Podcast
What if that one hospital your group has tied its future to pulls you to the bottom?
Contracts Don’t Contain Extra Baggage
Imagine that you are an engineer packing a space vehicle for flight. You’d include what you’d intend be used and toss in some backups – but you certainly wouldn’t include anything that won’t be required.