Effectively Leading Physician Relations

by Kriss Barlow, MBA, RN Just as best-practice organizations need capable field staff, so, too, do they need capable program leaders. Effective leaders balance their ability to look at the whole ladder, while never losing site of the individual rungs. The best...

Ensuring Physician Relations Gets the Credit

By Allison McCarthy, MBA Effectively measuring ROI on physician sales and retention activities requires two key elements – quantitative data and qualitative data. While producing the quantitative data has its own set of challenges, qualitative data trending and...

Getting Leadership’s Attention Through Innovative Reporting

By: Susan Boydell You’ve gone out into the field, talked with physicians, compiled actions steps and presented a volume of viable suggestions to leadership… And nothing happens. Now what? To make sure you don’t find yourself in that “Now what?” position, it’s...

A Checklist to Consider How Ideas are Processed Internally

By Kriss Barlow, RN, MBA   “It is one thing to have a great idea – it is quite another to see your idea actually implemented. How often have you had a “brainstorm”, gotten excited, rushed in to share it with your boss, co-workers, family, etc. only to see...

Important Sales Rules Not to Live By

Author: Kriss Barlow, RN, MBA Anyone who’s ever sold anything to anyone has learned the lessons of what not to do. Conversely, those negative experiences can teach us to do things the right way-and how to build solid relationships with our customers. Consider...

Communication to Keep Physicians in the Loop

Author: Kriss Barlow, RN, MBA For almost every healthcare executive, managing change seems to be a daily obligation. Change means that people and departments are in a state of flux. What is all of this change doing to impact communication? Tremendous energy is being...