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 | 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 12, 2015 | General, Health care reform, The Future of Administration
It’s time to stop removing the barriers to tele-health. Back in the old days, the individuaI doctor-patient relationship was the mainstay of the practice of medicine. We were told in training that an appropriate history and physician should lead to the...
by Steve Berkowitz | Feb 2, 2015 | Health care reform, The Future of Administration, Transparency, Uncategorized
The New Health Literacy Transparency goes into Overdrive We are seeing an inexorable rise in what is now called “Health Literacy”. In my February newsletter, I am addressing the issues of health literacy and what hospitals and physicians need to do to...
