Learning
Collaborative Attraction
Why am I blogging on vacation? Because it doesn’t get better than this. Sure, getting there was challenging: 7 hours in the air from Boston, followed by an hour in a rickety shuttle, but then I felt like I entered paradise when desert met ocean in Cabo, Mexico, on the Baja Peninsula looking east to the Sea of [...]
Tags: Attracting success, collaboration in healthcare, Getting It Done: Lifelines from the Field, Health Administration Press, Ignite Your Business: Transform Your World, improving physician-hospital relationships, Kelly O'Neil, Kenneth H. Cohn MD, law of attraction, Lee Kaiser, physician administrator communication, physician-administration relations, physician-hospital communication, physician-hospital relations
Collaborative Social Media: Review of Social Media in Healthcare
I confess to feeling ambivalent about social media. On the negative side, comes the whine, “You mean that I have to learn that too?” I picture myself scrolling down the trackbar of my Crackberry like the mouse in the social science experiment that stimulates its pleasure center so often that it looses touch with the world, stops eating [...]
Tags: Christina Beach Thielst, collaboration in healthcare, Health Administration Press, improving physician-hospital relationships, Kenneth H. Cohn MD, physician administrator communication, physician-administration relations, physician-hospital communication, physician-hospital relations, Social Media in Healthcare
Collaborative Moderation
I salute Ron Yee, CMO at United Health Centers of the San Joaquin Valley, who introduced me when I presented at the annual meeting of The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) on Field-Tested Strategies in Physician Recruitment, Contracting, and Retention. Community health centers provide care to approximately 20,000,000 patients, which is expected to double [...]
Tags: collaboration in healthcare, improving physician-hospital relationships, Kenneth H. Cohn MD, NACHC, physician administrator communication, physician recruiting, physician retention, physician-administration relations, physician-hospital communication, physician-hospital relations, Ron Yee
Collaborative Exit
Greetings from Prague, where the choral group in which my wife sings made its international debut. Our activities included a tour of the Hradcany Royal Palace, which was a painless way of relearning European history. I use the word “relearning” because I can remember the page from freshman year high school describing the defenestration of Prague [...]
Tags: collaboration in healthcare, Defenestration of Prague, improving physician-hospital relationships, Kenneth H. Cohn MD, physician administrator communication, physician-administration relations, physician-hospital communication, physician-hospital relations, Thirty Year War
Collaborative Naivete: Post 83
I have a stack of books awaiting review. It remains my goal for 2010 to make more time to read and review new works as a value-added service to loyal readers. Something called out to me about Confident Voices: The Nurses’ Guide to Improving Communication and Creating Positive Workplaces, written by Beth Boynton and edited [...]
Tags: collaboration in healthcare, improving physician-hospital relationships, Kenneth H. Cohn MD, physician administrator communication, physician-administration relations, physician-hospital communication, physician-hospital relations, physician-nurse collaboration, resolving physician-nurse conflict
Collaborative Learning: Post 80
In Candid Reflections on Bad Behavior, I reflected on the recently published ACPE Doctor-Nurse Behavior Study, in which 2,124 physicians and 696 nurses participated. Nearly 85% of respondents experienced degrading comments, 73% yelling, 49% cursing, and 38% refusing to work together. Those of you who have been with me know that I am on a [...]
Tags: collaboration in healthcare, Dr. William V. McDermott, improving physician-hospital relations, physician administrator communication, physician retention, physician-hospital communication, physician-hospital relations, Residency education
Collaborative Future: Post 77
I had the pleasure last weekend of attending The Future of Medicine: An Expert Diagnosis, at my alma mater, the University of Rochester. Here I am introducing Dr. Mark Taubman, the Acting CEO of the University of Rochester Medical Center. Other Panelists included: Paul Keckley, Executive Director, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, Daniel Sisto, President, [...]
Tags: Daniel Sisto, David Klein, healthcare reform, Mark Taubman, Paul Keckley, the future of medicine, University of Rochester
Collaborative Wishes: Post 75
In residency, I learned that it is a sign of strength to admit ignorance and ask for help. While writing my latest column for the Journal of Healthcare Management on Innovation in the Face of Recession, I realized that little has been written recently on that subject in healthcare. So, I asked respected thought leaders what they were doing [...]
Tags: collaboration in healthcare, healthcare reform, improving physician-hospital relations, Lee Kaiser, patient accountability, physician administrator communication, physician-hospital communication, physician-hospital relations
Collaborative Sensemaking: Post 74
I spent a small part of my recent vacation meeting with thought leaders in New England to discuss trends and implications for the coming year. One of my most pleasurable meetings took place at a winery and restaurant in the Nashoba Valley, where I talked with Dr. Kate Goonan about her new book, Journey to Excellence: How [...]
Tags: collaboration in healthcare, improving physician-hospital relations, Joseph A. Muzikowski, Journey to Excellence, Kathleen J. Goonan, Patricia K. Stoltz, physician administrator communication, physician-hospital communication, physician-hospital relations, Sensemaking
Collaborative Uncertainty: Post 73
I just read a summary of Ram Charan’s new book, Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty, a provocative strategy for dealing with recession and emerging stronger. The author recommends that executives act quickly and decisively to prepare for the worst-case scenario, with the optimism that if they encounter a situation that is not as bad [...]
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