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Hospitals, physicians need to be allies, not adversaries
Modern Healthcare
|October 22, 1990
Insights
Ending the conflict between hospital administration and physicians is key to controlling costs without reducing care quality. A shared organizational model fairly distributing risks and rewards is proposed.
Area of Science:
- Healthcare Management
- Health Economics
- Organizational Behavior
Background:
- The current adversarial relationship between hospital administration and physician staff often leads to inefficiencies.
- This conflict can negatively impact both healthcare costs and the quality of patient care.
Purpose of the Study:
- To propose a new organizational model for hospitals.
- To advocate for the integration of administration and physician staff.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis of existing hospital organizational structures.
- Proposal of a shared organizational model.
Main Results:
- Eliminating the adversarial dynamic is presented as the sole method for cost control without quality compromise.
- A shared model is suggested to fairly allocate risks and rewards.
Conclusions:
- Integrating administration and physician staff into a unified structure is essential.
- Fair risk and reward allocation within this integrated model is crucial for success.
Abstract:
The only way to bring hospital costs under control without sacrificing quality is to end the adversarial relationship between administration and physician staff, says Philip Hoggard. It's time to integrate the two camps into a shared organizational model that allocates risks and rewards fairly.