Omar Zalatimo

My reply to Sabir

Great comment Sabir. The think I love a business is the interdigitating quality of the skills. You will see a true consistency in financial, leadership, strategy, and improvement skills. As a provider it all begins at the patient and trying to have the best outcomes in both clinical and experience. That is why we all were…[Read more]

This came in today from Sabir on the comment section of the page.  I moved it here for the benefit of all.

“Great first video. Gave me a lot to think about. I can relate the assembly line model of car making to current health care. First, we need to see a lot of patients per day to meet financial goals, likely due to vanishing reimbursements.…[Read more]

Hi Katie.  Thanks for joining us in class.  The class is a distillation of the best parts of my MBA.  We have had over 150 students here and in Delaware and their experience will be added to what you see here.  We have a pretty diverse group so far, but you will see many of the same issues pop up as you look through the discussions.  It does…[Read more]

Hi Karin, did you know that Sabir went to Rush as well.  We haven’t had anyone from GBMC for awhile.  I am so pleased that you could join us.  I will be interested to see how effective we are using this LMS as a basis for the course.

I am also looking forward to following you progress and seeing your discussion board contributions.  This sys…[Read more]

Hi Steve, great to have you in class.  I shall be very interested to see what you think about our virtual classroom here.  This program constitutes the best parts of my MBA that are directed at issues that arise for you all who see patients every day.  Everything here is real, no fake cases or numbers.  It all has happened, the good and the bad…[Read more]

Welcome to the program Sabir.  I am quite familiar with the “Must exercise” program that you are on.  Myine is ice hockey, used to be basketball, but skating is a little easier on the body than BBall.  You are the second student in this class who went to Rush.  Do you know Katie O’Connell?  This program is a distillation of my MBA from Johns Hopk…[Read more]

Hi Omar, welcome to the class.   You may be the first neurosurgeon we have had in this program.  Interesting that you trained at Penn State Hershey.  You will find a familiar name in the second course on the section on reimbursement, Robert Harbough.  I use a quote of his.  I will leave it at that for now.  We aspire to share this program at the…[Read more]

Hello. My name is Sabir Taj. I went to med school at Rush University in Chicago. I did my prelim year at Illinois Masonic in Chicago. I completed residency at Loyola University in Chicago. My fellowship was in Boston, broke the Chicago trend, at MGH in IR.  Job market was tough in 2013 when I graduated, so was very lucky to find a 100% IR job w…[Read more]

These are great comment Piyush.  My point was to question Saturday hours as a strategy.  What are you adding/fixing that requires Saturday hours?  Pay attention to that and form strategy in a team setting including representatives of the practice that are affected by the original problem.  Saturday hours may be one of the strategies that come out…[Read more]

“but again did not ask whether they wanted to do it or not, because we were afraid they would say no”

This is one of the biggest problems for a leader.  This issue was about sharing call.  Sharing call is a solution to a problem.  It is identification of that problem that is important to leadership.  Once you have a problem, it is the team, and…[Read more]

This from Randi

“Thanks for the constructive feedback Dave. Interestingly, Betty had the right idea to roll this idea out them as a possibility, but I sensed that out of our 15 providers, the majority would “vote it down “ so I suggested we tell them this was happening and they could choose to participate or not. Now I see what a big mistake tha…[Read more]

My response to Randi;

I think we also cover this issue in “Leading Improvement”. How do you get buy in from those who end up doing the work when you want to implement new strategy or create improvement. The answer is to incorporate them from the beginning in the process and then make sure the process is transparent. In this case, are the Sat…[Read more]

Imagine a data system that delayed decisions for a year in the care your were planning for a patient.  You would almost think you were in England.  Thing is, there is no care unless informed actionable decisions can be made on the financial side of your practice.  We would never put up with it on the clinical side, why put up with it on the fi…[Read more]