Nov. 19th, 2016 01:11 am
Anesthesiologists Must Adapt..
Anesthesiologists Must Adapt, Says Value Model Guru
CHICAGO — Anesthesiologists who resist the move toward value-based healthcare risk becoming dinosaurs, according to a prominent economist who is widely viewed as the architect of the value model.
"This is the future," said Michael Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School and director of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness in Boston. Value-based models may still be more of the exception than the norm, but they are here to stay, said Porter.
"We have to stop protecting our traditional roles and get ahead of this — do the things that we can do the best and do the things that stretch us," Porter said during his keynote speech to an audience of several thousand here at Anesthesiology 2016 from the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA).
Otherwise, "my fear is that you all will become commodity players," he said.
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CHICAGO — Anesthesiologists who resist the move toward value-based healthcare risk becoming dinosaurs, according to a prominent economist who is widely viewed as the architect of the value model.
"This is the future," said Michael Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School and director of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness in Boston. Value-based models may still be more of the exception than the norm, but they are here to stay, said Porter.
"We have to stop protecting our traditional roles and get ahead of this — do the things that we can do the best and do the things that stretch us," Porter said during his keynote speech to an audience of several thousand here at Anesthesiology 2016 from the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA).
Otherwise, "my fear is that you all will become commodity players," he said.
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