Bryan Vartabedian
The scribe industry sold hospital systems software that massages every patient visit into a high complexity encounter. And hospitals bought it thinking the insurers wouldn’t notice. Well, they noticed. Now payors and auditors are circling. The hawk-and-rabbit game of robo-coding and...
Bryan Vartabedian
For most of history, medical diagnosis came through a series of chaotic steps. Patients experienced a string of studies, samples, and images coupled with a doctor’s judgment offering a best-guess answer. Or, in many cases, just a guess. Increasingly, diagnosis is being be reduced to simple...
Bryan Vartabedian
There’s lots of talk about physician burnout. There’s even more talk about how we get rid of it. Everyone has a solution. But the problem with the conversation is that burnout is a sign, not a disease. Burnout is the downstream result of a number of complex upstream problems. But it’s rarely the...
Bryan Vartabedian
Optimization has become a defining feature of modern healthcare. We optimize, review, tweak, and measure our systems and ourselves against a super-optimized standard. Better, faster, safer, more productive, efficient and effective. We’re always looking for improvement. And for good reason. 21st...
Bryan Vartabedian
In his book, Leaders Eat Last — Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t, Simon Sinek discusses the importance of a safe work environment for innovation, productivity and survival. He calls this leader-driven space the Circle of Safety. It is easy to know when we are in the Circle of...