The first time that I saw a computer there were two in the room. One of them took up most of the south side of a floor of the Computer Science Building and the other took up most of the north side. To the best of my memory, the first time I saw a hospital […]
Tag: hospital-centric
The healthcare tide is strong: pushing forward hospital-centric healthcare, accountable care organizations, and governmental meddling. But what way are you swimming toward your future? Are you swimming with the tide or against it? Certainly, some trends are strong and will continue to play out no matter how hard you fight against them. For those interested […]
Does your medical group have a strategy to succeed, or are you simply hoping not to fail?
Is your group playing to win or just playing not to lose? Are you working at only one facility and hoping that your exclusive contract will be renewed or that your relationship with referring physicians on the facility’s medical staff will continue to result in a stream of patients? Are you simply laying low and […]
Money. Power. Status. Popularity. The four human interest motivators. What does this mean for physicians in the context of a hospital-centric healthcare future? The hospital will control the money, but due to the need to use fair market valuation studies as backup for compliance purposes, which will lead to a spiraling down of physician compensation, […]
Over the course of the past decade or so, carriers have ratcheted down payment and have begun a concerted shift away from compensating independent professionals to employing them directly at greatly reduced levels. If you read the prior paragraph quickly, you might think that I was addressing compensation paid to physicians, but you’d be wrong. […]
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 […]
There’s been a lot of talk about bullying of hospital staff by physicians and even of bullying by nurses of junior staff and of younger physicians. Hospitals, through their personnel function, and medical staffs, by way of medical staff discipline and physician well-being, are expected to police this behavior.
As a result of the prevailing trend of hospital-centric healthcare, in which more and more physicians are contracted with or employed by hospitals, the medical staff is quickly reaching a tipping point. Soon, if it is not already taken place at your facility, a preponderance of medical staff members, or at least those who are […]
When I have a question about my health, about the last thing I think of is calling the hospital; I call my doctor.
