Five roadblocks to effective partnerships in a competitive health care environment

Five major roadblocks stand between medical staffs and their partners in a competitive health care environment. Reports from more than 300 physician leaders, board members, and hospital executives show that these barriers are significant in both strategic and perceptual ways. Success in an ambiguous, competitive, and most often unforgiving economic environment means that the health care delivery team of the future will have to find its way around or through each of these barriers. Recommendations for developing successful partnership relations are made herein for each of the five roadblocks described.