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Financing better care: Lessons from the HFMA annual meeting

Financing better care: Lessons from the HFMA annual meeting

“Change definitely will be happening. And change happening will be difficult.” That’s the message I delivered at the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) Annual Meeting in Minneapolis this week. As this year’s keynote speaker, I promised those in...

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Healthcare rules that need to be broken: Lessons from PSTM21

Healthcare rules that need to be broken: Lessons from PSTM21

Before I was a professor at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business or CEO at The Permanente Medical Group (Kaiser Permanente), I was a very proud, busy and highly satisfied plastic and reconstructive surgeon. Plastic surgery has for decades stood on the...

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ACOs: Proof of the power of medical culture   

ACOs: Proof of the power of medical culture   

Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have been around for more than a decade—created with the idea that integrating care providers across settings (hospitals, primary care, specialty care, etc.) and aligning their financial incentives would lead to improved clinical...

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Physician burnout is becoming a chronic disease

Physician burnout is becoming a chronic disease

It began as an acute illness, sometime about a decade ago. Doctors, who had for centuries belonged to a proud and rewarding profession, were suddenly reporting a series of alarming symptoms: exhaustion, frustration and extreme hopelessness. Surveys indicated that...

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Results Are In: The 2021 ‘Fixing Healthcare’ Survey

Results Are In: The 2021 ‘Fixing Healthcare’ Survey

In this survey, the third of the Fixing Healthcare franchise, we asked listeners: "Which of medicine’s cultural issues are most concerning to you?" Options were based on insights and topics from the eight guests featured on season five of the Fixing Healthcare...

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