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If you have followed me at all you know this has been one heck of a year for me. I have transformed myself completely thanks to Benchmark Medical Group in Windsor. I have lost over 140 lbs and kept it off for over 7 months. The mental and physical transformation has been mind blowing.

A medical group can't aggregate capital for its future if it zeros out each year. The compensation plan must be revised.

It’s one thing to understand that playing to self-interest motivates. Harnessing that self-interest advances the business’ own interests. It’s altogether something else to create a medical group that operates as a collective or in a club-like structure. In that situation, the group members generally put their own interests ahead of the group’s interests. That all … Continue reading

The healthcare industry defies traditional notions of supply and demand. There’s a lot of demand for quality healthcare services than there is to supply – more patient needs than there are doctors to serve. However, doctors ironically continue to worry about seeing more patients – perhaps, the type of patients with insurance plans that will suitably reimburse for their services.

Though lawyers are often the last people doctors want to see involved in patient care, across the country, many medical systems have begun establishing special legal partnerships. Lawyers become allies for disadvantaged patients who need help navigating problems with landlords and insurers. Special correspondent Jackie Judd reports from Omaha, Nebraska.

With any new initiative, organizations can use physician engagement to improve hospital profitability. Physicians can have a significant impact.

I see two very common problems with medical groups. They move too slow. They do what everyone else does. In this market – a still-sick economy, the push toward ACOs and other so-called “alignment,” and the other ills of Obamacare – many are pushing toward becoming large. But large makes them fragile — prone to … Continue reading

Pharmacy Future Leader's Geily Ward interviews Kelsey Zapata an Emergency Medicine Clinical resident Pharmacist at Kaweah Delta Medical Center.   S...

Integration within the NHS has historically been structural but from the patient's perspective it has lacked co-ordination, explains Mark Britnell

There are plenty of opportunities to trim waste in America's $3.4 trillion health care system - but it's often not as simple as it seems.