What’s the right way of looking at ACOs, physician alignment, hospital-physician collaboration and other initiatives to bind physicians to hospitals?
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If Technology (and HIPAA) Drive Independent Healthcare Practice, Why the Need for Physician “Alignment?” – Medical Group Minute
Technological revolution enables the coordination of care across locations, providers, and facilities.
The Cancer of Consensus
The expression lead, follow, or get out of the way has more than a kernel of truth to it. Leaders must lead. They cannot bog themselves down in the morass of consensus building. As the etymology of the word consensus indicates (with + thinking) it waters down decisions as a result of compromise and giving…
The Chicken and the Pig and the ACO
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…
Are You Infected with a Hospital-Centric Meme?
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…
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.
Harnessing “Me to We”
Shift from transactional to relational: leverage the “we” mentality to strengthen physician-hospital partnerships to resist hospital control.
Protecting Your Practice in Today’s “WE” Society – Podcast
In order to thrive in the “WE” society sweeping through healthcare, medical groups must adopt a different focus.
The Chicken, the Pig and the ACO – Podcast
Hospital administrators are involved in ACO formation, but physicians are being asked to fully commit.
The Power of Conversations
Just as conversations help frame contract discussions, conversations help frame the shape of entire industries. Right now the frame in healthcare is greater cooperation between hospitals and physicians: alignment, ACOs, direct employment, collaboration. The result of that frame? Greater control by hospitals over physicians. But there’s no reason why that frame can’t be hijacked to…