Writing about the latest news and discoveries in the medical world.
Value analysis is finally getting some traction in healthcare. According to the Association of Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals (AHVAP), value analysis is “A systematic process to review clinical products, equipment and technologies and to evaluate their clinical efficacy, safety and impact on organizational resources”. Historically this process occurred within supply […]
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When I was in grammar school, it seemed like every week there was some school function that needed the help of volunteers. As student volunteers, we would meet at the school’s gymnasium and be divided up into work teams. There was an adult who supervised the work, and building a […]
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Engagement is the buzz word for the 21st century in healthcare. Nowhere is it more commonly applied than in the expression “physician engagement”. Sometimes it is not only a matter of knowing what we should be doing to engage physicians, but also a matter of knowing what not to do that […]
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Since 2000 the annual growth in robotic assisted surgery has increased tremendously. Between 2009 – 2014 the number of procedures performed on the da Vinci platform from Intuitive Surgical has tripled from approximately 40,000 to 120,000[1]. It is not just the number of procedures that is growing, but also the […]
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What once seemed like a burden became a gift. It doesn’t take long, after becoming a physician leader for a hospital or healthcare system, when you will be approached about starting up a program. My experience working for a large integrated delivery network was no different. When I was a […]
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Big companies are always looking for ways to develop great teams and ours was no different. The latest fad was for everyone in the C-Suite to take a psychological exam which would assess each team members strengths and weaknesses. The goal was to create teams whose patterns of strengths and […]
Read MoreIf you want to improve “physician engagement”, engage….physicians. We can start this by dropping the phrase “physician engagement”. It tends to be used as a way of framing all of what is wrong in healthcare. So often I hear people declare that if we only had more physician engagement we […]
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It’s an oversimplification to suggest that a physician’s practice could come down to two key drivers, and yet without focusing on these key drivers all of them would struggle to keep their doors open. The key drivers are work-flow and cash-flow. They impact everything, and just about every physician is aware […]
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A few years ago I ran into a surgical colleague who was complaining that his referrals were decreasing. He was convinced that it was a plot by his competition to steal his business. He was also convinced that the hospital was in on it. He described what he was certain […]
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People transition in their careers all the time, but often for different reasons. Recently I experienced this, and also had the opportunity to hear the stories of others who have undergone a career transition. If I had to summarize the reasons why they occur, they tend to fall into two […]
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