Profits are bad. Patients are good. Completely logical if you’re a Congresswoman from the San Francisco Bay Area as long as we’re not talking about the tech companies in her congressional district.
Future of Healthcare
For Whom Are Hospitals Built?
For whom are hospitals built? For the health of patients or for the financial health and convenience of its operators and staff?
Do You Really Want This Smaller Future?
In a nutshell, Reinertsen states that radiologists should reconcile themselves to lower incomes and simply focus on quality.
Simple Change: Complex Transformation
Many contracted medical groups, both those in the traditional hospital based specialties as well as those in office based specialties, quite improperly view themselves as providing a commodity service. They themselves do not believe that there is a qualitative difference between their group’s “Dr. A” and another group’s “Dr. B,” such that there is no strategic value from obtaining services from their group as…
The Impact of Change on Your Medical Practice
The common belief, and it may be quite true, is that change is the greatest cause of stress. But what if it can be used to your group’s advantage? In the mid 1980’s there was a well known West Coast billing service that told its clients that they had only follow three simple rules to…
Two Wolves and a Lamb – Podcast
Hospitals and the government have decided that physicians must collaborate financially in order to deliver quality healthcare. Of course, that’s a lie.