Do you use behavioral style assessment tools in your organization? Achieving success in working with your employees, your peers, as well as, with your direct supervisor means combining relationship skills with task skills. It can be incredibly impactful as a leader, as well as, someone being led when you understand the tendencies of different behavior or personality styles. There are many good behavioral assessment tools out there, we just happen to use the DISC assessment tool here at MedMan. This month the MedMan team reviewed ways to use the DISC assessment tool to best communicate with each style, what motivates them and how to leverage the strengths of each style in an organization.
That would be me. Forever working on my listening skills, and being paranoid about growing detached from those in the field, I want reliable and actionable input from those I trust. So years ago we created an employee advisory committee while at a MedMan University we were holding in Phoenix. We named it the Phoenix Council. This committee is comprised of employees elected by their peers. I name the chair, who then sits on the MedMan board of directors assuring us of input from the trenches. Interestingly the Phoenix Council has actually simplified my life. They filter ideas and concerns, process them and turn them into recommendations. And…to their credit I usually do what they sugges
Good News for Orthopedics, “46% of people would rather have a broken bone than a broken phone”. - Adam Alter, Irresistible, The Rise of Addictive Technology We reach for our cell phones close to 100 times a day – nearly twice as much as you might guess. At a time when so many people feel they do not have enough time, we add insult to injury by spending time on cell phone apps for gaming, social networking, and new casts actually has negative impacts on our mood, manner, frame of mind and as well as our physical posture. Why do we do that, and what do we do about it? Simple –– television shows have an end… when you turn the last page of a newspaper you are done. There are no “stopping cues”
Recently in Idaho and Washington, legislation has come forward to prevent patients from being balanced billed by out-of-network providers and other service lines such as ambulance companies and laboratories. The Idaho bill specifically would have limited out-of-network payments to the greater of 85% contracted in-network rate or 145% of Medicare. It’s not too crazy of an idea to try and provide patients with some sort of protection in scenarios where there really is not a choice in the matter (i.e. emergency ambulance rides, back-room radiology readings, etc.) However, these bills are applying the same rules to ambulatory practices and shifting costs from the insurance company over to the pr
In the first article in this series, we looked at the Institute of Medicine’s STEEEP acronym, which stands for care that is Safe, Timely, Effective, Efficient, Equitable, and Patient-Centered. Equitable care is the fifth pillar. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement describes efficiency by stating, “…Race, ethnicity, gender, and income should not prevent anyone in the world from receiving high-quality care. We need advances in health care delivery to match the advances in medical science so the benefits of that science may reach everyone equally.” It may be easy to look at modern medical practices and say, “there’s no discrimination against patients based on race, gender, ethnicity, etc.,
