by Steve Berkowitz | May 20, 2016 | Physician Leadership
For every clinician, there will ultimately come a day that will bring “Bad News”. Perhaps your nurse tells you that patient you sent home from the office yesterday with non-specific chest symptoms died last night of a massive MI. Or if you are a surgeon...
by Steve Berkowitz | May 16, 2016 | Health care reform, The Future of Administration
Where will the future of population health take us? Follow the incentives! The more I study health care, the more I appreciate the enormous contribution of incentives. I have often written that “Incentives drive behaviors” and “Behaviors drive...
by Steve Berkowitz | Mar 31, 2016 | Uncategorized
With all the pre-convention rhetoric on both sides of the aisle, the topic of health care reform for now has temporarily taken a back seat to terrorism and other issues. But the ultimate fate of the Affordable Care Act and American health care in general will come...
by Steve Berkowitz | Mar 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
You will be NOT be judged (and paid) on how well you performed, but on how well you were coded Did you ever play the game of telephone at a party? A person tells a story to another, who then in turn tells the story to the next person, and on down the line. The last...
by Steve Berkowitz | Mar 14, 2016 | Physician Leadership, The Future of Administration
I was talking to a CMO the other day and she mentioned to me that if only there were not so many distractions in the course of a day she would be able to get much more work done. She said that these distractions, many of them of questionable merit, kept getting in the...
