Clinical connectivity
Article Type: News and views From: Leadership in Health Services, Volume 24, Issue 1
Due to increasing depth of physician involvement in management decision-making, tomorrow’s non-medical senior executives will have to connect well with clinical management. Far beyond understanding clinical issues and how they are impacted by management, he or she will have to include physicians’ perspectives and effectively integrate them into decision-making.
In order to elicit effective contributions from physicians, leaders will need to do more than become skilled at understanding clinical perspectives. They will need to engage physicians in business decisions and foster physician understanding of business issues facing their organizations. Many healthcare CEOs today say that effective physician relationship development is among the top three core competencies for rising leaders.
