by Steve Berkowitz | Sep 27, 2016 | The Future of Administration
We have learned a lot about the how but preciously little about the why. ..So we may “fix” the numbers, but maybe not the disease I was recently reminiscing with one of my medical colleagues. Together we have had over 60 years in the medical profession (I...
by Steve Berkowitz | Aug 3, 2016 | The Future of Administration
I took a much needed three month vacation from my weekly health care blogs. I was starting to develop writer’s block. I could not be inspired to write something new even though health care is changing faster than ever before and providing more material on which...
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 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...
by Steve Berkowitz | Jan 18, 2016 | Physician Leadership, The Future of Administration
Last week I discussed the “true cost of health care”. Today I’m going to discuss another overlooked potential “cost” to your organization: meetings. Meetings, meetings, meetings! One of the biggest frustrations for physicians going into...
by Steve Berkowitz | Dec 29, 2015 | General, Physician Leadership, The Future of Administration
Just before Christmas I was talking with a CMO who’s hospital had recently been remodeled and his office was relocating next to the medical staff office and physicians’ lounge. This was done in part so that he could be in closer proximity to the physicians...
