What if health regulators agreed that for every new complex responsibility they want to require of patients, physicians, or medical practices, they first take one away? What if we asked physicians what they really wanted and then used that to incentivize them instead of money? What if we gave trusting relationships in medicine room to grow instead of stifling them with demands for data?
These questions are the start of a new conversation about how to move health care in a better direction.
HALEE FISCHER-WRIGHT, who received her M.D. from the University of Colorado, is a nationally recognized physician leader, health care executive, and former business consultant, whose work focuses on innovation and creating cultures of excellence. Dr. Fischer-Wright is president and CEO of Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) and is the co-author of Tribal Leadership, a New York Times bestseller.
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