We sat down with Rose Glenn, CMO of Henry Ford Health System, just before the Supreme Court issued its ruling on the Obama Administration’s healthcare act during 2012 HealthShare Symposium. Here’s what Glenn had to say about the future of our country’s healthcare laws. Watch clip for Rose Glenn’s perspective on the impact of the health care reform decision.
Tonight we welcomed roughly 150 healthcare professionals from hospitals across the country to the sixth annual Symposium. In the spirit of this year’s theme, Think Together – Move Forward, we’re inviting this year’s attendees to collectively think about the “a-ha” moments they experience during the week’s sessions and to share them – whether through social media, networking sessions with fellow attendees, or simply jotting down really, really good notes for themselves in a Symposium program guide. To get things started, we’re sharing a few of our own.
Read on for three a-ha moments we gleaned from tonight’s special presenters.
What’s more important to patient outcomes and service excellence – the performance of a hospital or its affiliated physicians? Tray Dunaway, MD, author, surgeon and educator, believes the more important question may be, can you see who’s been swimming naked? We invited Dr. Dunaway to shed some light on the topic in the week leading up to the 2012 HealthShare Symposium, where he will expand on what he believes the industry needs to do to advance healthcare quality for patients. For now, here’s a preview.
Want to improve hospital-physician alignment? Tell them you can see them naked.
Tray Dunaway, MD
Choosing a physician and hospital based on superior health care value determined by clinical outcomes and service benchmarks is difficult for many reasons. Even well educated and savvy healthcare consumers face a daunting task, often compounded by an overwhelming sense of urgency, in making the best healthcare buying decision when suddenly faced with medical needs.
Making the right choice is difficult because healthcare quality waters are murky. Most consumers can’t comprehend a myriad of decision making factors, nor can they determine proper significance of factors they even think they may understand. But quoting Warren Buffett, “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.”
