keerti bhusan pradhan healthcare management advisor
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Keerti Bhusan PradhanHealthcare Management Advisor
Current Eye Care Scenario in North India
No major private institutes in eye care Over last decade eye care chains have
definitely come up However they are hospital chainsNo institute has come up in last 25 years
which offers capacity building initiatives for eye care human resource development
All this points to the need for good eye care institutes in North India
Myriad Activities of an Institute
Group Practice-Coming togetherAn effective strategy for meeting the evolving
demands of an increasingly complex health care market.
Strategic Advantages of Group Practice
Group Practice Allows Sharing of Resources
Group Practice Findings• Practices with a strong information culture favor
electronic data systems and formal programs that provide comparative or evidence-based data to enhance their clinical practices
• Those with a quality-centered culture appear to prefer patient satisfaction surveys to assess the quality of their care
• Practices that are more business-oriented rely on bureaucratic strategies such as benchmarking and physician profiling
• Practices with a highly collegial culture appear to rely on informal peer review mechanisms to assure quality rather than any of the structural programs
Necessary Character Traits For Solos • An entrepreneurial mindset• Willingness to have the buck stop with you – both
financially and with treatment decisions. • Independent spirit and willingness to be
innovative• Willingness to work whenever, wherever,
however• Willingness to be the only doctor on your block
getting to the hospital in the middle of a heavy rain
• Willingness to market your practice
Solo PracticeAdvantages DisadvantagesIndependence: Freedom to
operate every facet of the business as you see appropriate.
Hours: Statistics show that solos work less during the workweek than physicians in group practice do. But solos tend to work more on the weekends than do group practice physicians.
Money. Whatever you make is yours.
Doing everything: You may have to do things you have never done before, as well as tasks you may not be good at doing and also tasks that the office staff ordinarily does at a larger practice.
Time: Long weekend and evening hours translate into less time for your spouse and children, as well as less vacation time, at least initially.
Lack of coverage for emergencies and during illness
Initial cost of set-up. Reimbursement rates for solos
are not always as high as they are for members of a group.
Centre of ExcellenceA center of excellence refers to a team, a
shared facility or an entity that provides leadership, evangelization, best practices, research, support and/or training for a focus area
It may also be known as a competency center or a capability center
Such a center may bring together faculty members from different disciplines and provide shared facilities
Path Forward
To ponder on How can I better leave a legacy? What is your succession plan?What is your thought of making a beginning
on this?Can we have a vision of Eye Care Institutes
and CoEs in Northern India ?