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Medicine is one large decentralized organization
Posted on May 20th, 2010 No commentsIt occurs to me that healthcare suffers from a simple issue that many large organizations face. Namely as individual practitioners are given autonomy over major decisions that affect quality and costs, of course you will have variation in outcomes. The management solutions in this situation are simple, to centralize decision making (lobbying medicare to require certain algorithms of care), changing performance system (Pay for Performance), change accounting system to take into consideration poor outcomes.