by Steve Berkowitz | Dec 23, 2016 | Current Events
I have always loved traveling around this country. As a child, I enjoyed going on trips with my family and checking off the states we visited, making it a point to buy post cards from every state. One of my biggest thrills as a young adult was going to Four Corners...
by Steve Berkowitz | Aug 3, 2015 | Current Events, Health care reform, The Future of Administration, Uncategorized
Could Telemedicine keep patients healthier? Four ways visiting a physician could be inadvertently dangerous to a patient’s health As I review the inevitable progress of telemedicine, and how it will ultimately effect whether the patient will actually see the...
by Steve Berkowitz | Jul 22, 2015 | Current Events, Health care reform, Uncategorized
Health insurance will only work if everyone plays. I have written about this several times in the past couple years. We are in the midst of multiple challenges and controversies over insurance and health care access on both a local and national level. Mandating...
by Steve Berkowitz | Jun 29, 2015 | Current Events, General, Health care reform, The Future of Administration
One of the true blessings of a consulting life is the ability to personally visit and experience many different medical hospitals and physician groups. Since leaving my CMO job about four years ago, I have had the opportunity to visit all 50 states at least twice. I...
by Steve Berkowitz | May 11, 2015 | Current Events, General, Health care reform, Physician Leadership, The Future of Administration
Physician Splitting between Hospitals…. Hedge or good business? I was visiting with a hospital CEO in Alabama last week and we were talking about the apparent large volume of independent physicians that admit to both his hospital and to the competing facility....
by Steve Berkowitz | Feb 27, 2015 | Current Events, General, Physician Leadership, Q&A
Getting Back to the Basics- Balancing Quality and Cost in a Community Hospital I am sick and tired of hearing that community hospitals can no longer compete in the new health care world. Some say that community hospitals have become dinosaurs….. although I...
