by Steve Berkowitz | Dec 7, 2015 | General, Physician Leadership, The Future of Administration, Uncategorized
I was speaking to a CMO the other day who informed me of the following issue that occurred in the hospital: A nurse practitioner had just received his Doctorate in Nursing and wanted patients and staff from now on to refer to him as “Doctor”. Several of...
by Steve Berkowitz | Nov 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
Profiling has become a bad word lately, especially in politics and in the media. But as a physician, I acknowledge that the process of profiling is an invaluable part of the practice of medicine that we have always applied on a regular basis. By definition, profiling...
by Steve Berkowitz | Oct 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
The health care model of the future will have to deal with treating a whole lot more chronic disease. There are several reasons why this is so. The first one is obvious, the second two may well surprise you. 1. First is what we all know… the average American is...
by Steve Berkowitz | Oct 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
It’s nice to have an opportunity to say that I am proud of our delivery system. Once again, our caregivers and the entire health care team across the country delivered. Job well done. ICD-10 implementation has gone ahead with barely a glitch. It was the hard...
by Steve Berkowitz | Oct 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
The following blog focuses on physician reflection: would you take advice from you? Last week I wrote a blog that posed the question, if you as a physician were to look yourself up on the Internet, would you allow that person to take care of you based upon what you...
by Steve Berkowitz | Sep 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
I speak to health care audiences frequently about the role of Social Media and public data (this topic is becoming more popular every day) and their increasing influence on the practice of medicine. I cite a recent study that stated a patient will investigate a new...
