In order to thrive in the “WE” society sweeping through healthcare, medical groups must adopt a different focus.
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The Chicken, the Pig and the ACO – Podcast
Hospital administrators are involved in ACO formation, but physicians are being asked to fully commit.
Utilizing a Unit Concept to Drive Success
Medical groups view their practice as consisting of several independent, yet coordinated, units, each of which requires a separate focus.
Don’t Worry About Your Future – The Hospital Has it All Planned – Podcast
The hospital has written the script for your future. Don’t like it? Grab your own pen.
You Are Not a Service
Running a hospital based group as “service” for the hospital, functioning as a sort of clearinghouse for income and expenses, severely limits your group’s future. It limits the willingness, and the ability, of your group to pursue outside opportunities. That’s chiefly because there is tremendous pressure to pass through to the owner, and often to…
Using (and Used By) Public Information
Learn the vital role of using public information for making better informed business decisions and potential partnerships.
The Traitorous Healthcare Collaborator
What the term really means is let the hospital hold all the money, let the hospital decide who gets to render the care, and let the hospital decide what those providers should be paid.
The Tipping Point – Captive Medical Staffs and Loss of Accreditation
As hospital employment rises, medical staffs risk becoming rubber stamps. Learn how this threatens accreditation and group autonomy.
If Technology (and HIPAA) Drive Independent Healthcare Practice, Why the Need for Physician “Alignment?”
30 years ago, in order to practice law on a sophisticated level, you needed to be part of a firm with its relatively large support staff. You dictated and your secretary either took shorthand or transcribed the tape, typing away at a typewriter. Flash forward to today — I’m dictating this post into Evernote on…
The Problem of Perception – Healthcare Collaboration
What an odd color Mercedes; pink, like cotton candy. But what color is that pink? The pink in your mind’s eye is different from that in mine, and from that of each other reader. That’s because colors are perceptions made by each of us. *** The three students filed into the room and took seats…