In today’s connected business environment, many industry sectors – media, IT and finance, just to name a few – have embraced the use of remote, “telecommuter” employees to grow their workforce.
Healthcare, however, has been a bit behind on this trend. Since so much of medical care involves direct patient-practice interaction, the industry hasn’t always been a natural fit for the adoption of remote employees.
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When I was in college, neuroethics was becoming ‘a thing,’ and I thought the idea of interdisciplinary fields like those took the best of medical science and the humanities to alter the way we view the world.
But that’s just it – the way we view the world. With the advent of healthcare IT graduate university programs, we could be witnessing a revolution in the way we use the world.
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Starting a new practice is often wrought with instability. As a result, a number of young physicians are opting for the safety of hospital employment – only 35% of physicians under the age of 40 are practicing in groups of 5 or fewer physicians.
However, the challenges associated with small group private practices shouldn’t deter more entrepreneurial physicians, since they also provide the chance for health systems to realign their relationships with doctors.
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When reporting on the opinions of doctors as a group, journalists often use the stance of the American Medical Association (AMA) as shorthand. But the AMA, the nation’s largest association of physicians and medical students, has a membership of less than 220,000 people.
Only around 15% of practicing U.S. doctors belong to the AMA – a remarkably small percentage that, considering the AMA’s influencing power as an organization, should be much higher. Similarly low levels of participation plague state and local medical societies, too. What gives?
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