by Steve Berkowitz | Mar 30, 2015 | Physician Leadership, Quality
I was talking with a colleague of mine who is studying diligently for her Family Practice Recertification Boards. She has always passed them with flying colors every seven years, and was showing me some of the practice questions she now had to answer for this exam....
by Steve Berkowitz | Mar 23, 2015 | General, The Future of Administration, Transparency
Earlier in the week I read an article that said the city of Houston has now become a major medical tourism destination and will be getting 20,000 patients from abroad in the next year. Most of these patients come from Mexico and Saudi Arabia and most will be receiving...
by Steve Berkowitz | Mar 9, 2015 | General
How well is my hospital performing? It depends upon whom you ask. ….But we are still missing the point. There was an article in this month’s Health Affairs that looked at something that should have been addressed a long time ago: The authors compared...
by Steve Berkowitz | Mar 2, 2015 | General, Health care reform, The Future of Administration
The Future of “Tele-Health”: Part 2 The Effect on Local Healthcare I have written several articles on the evolving technology of tele-health and how it will change the very practice of medicine. Tele-medicine may actually have more effect on local...
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...
