On June 18, SunTrust Bank sponsored a webinar for its physician clients (most of them specialists), in which I discussed the future of business models and care models: How will medical specialists make a living in the future? And how will they care for patients? I...
(by Joe Flower, from H&HN [Hospitals and Health Networks] Weekly, 5/5/09)“Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart: the center cannot hold . . .” ...
(From The Physician Executive, Vol. 35 #1, Jan/Feb 2009, pp 50-53) Imagine you are an explorer, scouting out new territory, with the help of a local guide – a mathematically-inclined local guide. You come to a river. You ask whether it can be forded: “How deep is it?”...
Doesn’t any talk about a “cheaper” future of healthcare mean a huge loss of jobs? A fair question, but the answer is not as simple as you might think. In most communities, the hospital is one of the largest employers, if not the largest, and...
(From Physician Executive, September/October 2008) The answer to that question is undergoing a rapid, thorough, and historic shift. The very existence of a group with the hyphenated title “physician-executive” hints at the depth of the change.When people around the...
(From Hospitals and Health Networks Online, July 9, 2008)Hospitals need primary care physicians. They should hire physicians, they should buy physician practices, and they should join the retail clinic movement. At the core of any real health care reform, as well as...
