When I read the practice management presentation topics of many organized medical societies, I’m stunned by the degree of victimhood and of loss of choice assumed.
Tag: collaboration
What’s the right way of looking at ACOs, physician alignment, hospital-physician collaboration and other initiatives to bind physicians to hospitals?
Technological revolution enables the coordination of care across locations, providers, and facilities.
If collaboration really is the real thing, let the hospital design the deal, but the physicians control it.
I recently heard it said that while it takes both a chicken and a pig to make a ham and egg breakfast, the chicken is merely involved while the pig is fully committed. How different is this from the relationship between hospital administrators on the one hand, and physicians on the other, in connection with […]
Physicians are certainly well acquainted with the concept of nosocomial infections, infections acquired by patients during the course of hospitalization and infections acquired by hospital personnel. But physicians are for the most part unaware of another type of infection relating to hospitals: the meme, or mind virus, an accepted cultural idea or paradigm, infecting physicians in […]
Hospitals and the government have decided that physicians must collaborate financially in order to deliver quality healthcare. Of course, that’s a lie.
In my October 3, 2011, post From Me to We: From Physician to Provider, I discussed the fact that today’s society is heavily affected by “we” think, from notions of shared sacrifice, to paying your fair share, to “giving back.” The danger is that hospitals are using this trend to impose hospital-centric control over physicians […]
In order to thrive in the “WE” society sweeping through healthcare, medical groups must adopt a different focus.
Hospital administrators are involved in ACO formation, but physicians are being asked to fully commit.
