For the second day this week I start my day with a meeting. It strikes me as peculiar that in an industry being crushed under the weight of runaway costs we find a parallel magnitude of "meetingitis." Healthcare has become beholden to a management structure which knows little about actual patient care but contends it knows volumes about the process. Incredibly, the voice of healthcare management continues to hold audience with government and insurers in spite of their standing on the bridge of a monumentally failing business. From my perspective, healthcare managers have been about as capable with managing healthcare as Bernie Madoff was with handling other people's money.
In the meantime it's time to head off to another meeting. After all, the only way we can succeed in healthcare is to meet with stakeholders and talk about it. Some more. Right? Anybody for a donut?
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