As hospital employment rises, medical staffs risk becoming rubber stamps. Learn how this threatens accreditation and group autonomy.
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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…
How to Secure Customer Satisfaction – Podcast
Stop kidding yourself that the delivery of expert, even world-class, medical care is sufficient to guarantee your group’s future.
From Pigs to Model T’s to Medical Care
Learn how lessons from other industries reveal hidden paths to efficiency, scale, and innovation in healthcare.
Creative Destruction – Podcast
If you are ever to break out of the current paradigm, it will not be by benchmarking to the best practices of other groups headed downward in the same maelstrom.
Do You See Your Group As It Is or As You Wish It Were?
Did you ever see the infomercial for Blu-Blocker sunglasses or a copycat product? Seeming passersby are treated to the view through the lenses and, voila, what was gloomy or glary or just plain old ugly is now bright, but not too bright, clear and lovely. Are you wearing a metaphorical pair of those beauties right…
Accountable Care Organizations: Accountable to Whom – Podcast
The talking heads of healthcare are at it again: A new acronym to save healthcare has arrived, the ACO, an “accountable care organization.”
Managing Risk: Required for Success – Podcast
Medical Groups and entrepreneurial physicians must learn to manage business risk as a part of their overall strategy.
Is Cheap the New Loyal?
Until recently, hospitals granting exclusivity to a group demanded exclusivity, or a close approximation, from the group in return. Their position was based on the fact that they perceived the group to be of such high value that they did not want to share it with another facility.
The Sole Restaurant Syndrome and Medical Practice Failure
If you owned the only restaurant in town, chances are that even in a recession, business would be pretty good. People would be flocking to you and you wouldn’t have to do much, if anything, to drive business.