But if we have any hope of preserving the clinical, we as providers need to address the financial and operational. This means learning to be comfortable in our own business skins. Easy to say, tough to do. For a provider, the skin is unfamiliar and constrictive. We have to get over it.
Health care is in the midst of a tremendous transition - to something uncertain and undefined.
We can do this only by taking our seat at the table, speaking the language of business, grasping the non-clinical issues that swirl around us.