Dr. Bob, the group’s compliance officer, has HIPAA on his mind almost all the time, that is, when he’s not thinking about coding or Stark or the federal Anti-Kickback Statute. So he made sure that his notebook computer’s disk drive was encrypted. And, at the end of the computer’s useful life, he took care to […]
Category: Future of Healthcare
Properly done, medical group management is neither a collaborative nor a unanimous process. It is a leadership decision. The problem is that many groups have created an almost impermeable barrier to true leadership within their entity. They strive for a consensus, which by its very nature is just another way of saying “watered-down decision.” The […]
It was June when I saw it. The boarded-up stores of Main Street, paved red with bricks and lost hope. As I’ve written before (for example, here) and as you’ve undoubtedly witnessed, medical care is shifting from a hospital and, in many cases, physician office, model to a consumer model. Walk-in clinics in markets and […]
If the future of surgery is medicine, then the future of medicines is compounding, the individualization of dosages and drug combinations. Earlier this month, the FDA approved the first 3-D printed drug product, Spritam, developed by Aprecia Pharmaceuticals. The layering process of 3-D printing allows Apecia to tightly package active ingredients in precise dosages. A […]
I’ve written before about creating your own business disruption before someone else comes along and disrupts your business.
Google’s driverless cars have logged over 100,000 miles without incident. I don’t know how many car drivers will want to give up the control, but I’d bet that large trucking companies are doing the calculations.
So, I think it’s high time to re-brand non-profit hospitals. We should begin calling them non-taxpaying hospitals.
What story might you be telling, if even (no, especially) to yourself?
Recent news reports have revealed that some non-profit hospital CEOs have received up to 40% increases in salary over the prior year, with some CEO’s compensation hitting the $3 million mark.
Have you made this same mistake? Either by taking a job with idiot savants or, even worse yet, by building a medical group comprised of them?
