PHYSICIANS office RESOURCE BUYER ’ S GUIDE - 2017
Physicians need to improve in relying on the power of teams to lead themselves with shared simple rules and deep mutual purposes .
Stephen Beeson , MD
Change Healthcare ? Think Smaller
By Dylan Chadwick - POR Staff Writer
Healthcare often works like a big , cantankerous machine . Anyone in the field knows that the actual administration of health care makes up only a small portion of what their job encompasses , as they split their time between healing , business administration , policy interpretation and whatever else might come their way . Moreover , with substantial changes to healthcare reporting and reimbursement metrics , continuously stretch the ways in which physicians can define and evaluate their work . In many respects , the job of the physician becomes more convoluted with modernity as new standards dictate more disparate situations for physicians to address . Adhering to evidence , maintaining patient engagement , reducing waste and preventing physician burnout now vie for physician attention with the same urgency their patients are bringing them .
It is the kind of situation that can make anyone feel overwhelmed , especially when tasked with the grandiose jobs like “ making healthcare better and more efficient .” The various routes physicians can take to enact these changes within their practices are broad and multi-directional and even contradictory at times as practice leaders struggle to implement global improvements from local efforts .
In a KevinMD article ( www . kevinmd . com / blog / 2016 / 05 / tomake-big-heath-care-changes-think-small . html ) about physician involvement in the big healthcare change , Stephen Beeson , MD states “ If we are to harness the full potential of those professionals touching patients , our top-down mindset will not cut it .” Essentially , he claims that a “ top down ” communication method in which policy and thought leaders determine healthcare goals , broadcast them and then hold their constituents accountable to them will not work in the current environment . Beeson even called the “ top-down health care leadership mindset ” the culprit for the “ Death and very spirit and behaviors that are essential to [ healthcare ’ s ] transformation .” He contends that physicians need to improve in relying on the power of
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