“I’ve been privileged over the years to work with Kriss and Susan and I’m so excited to be joining the Barlow/McCarthy team. It feels like coming home.”
Tricia has 20+ years experience in the healthcare industry and is skilled at executing volume building strategies and increasing physician engagement. She is an expert at identifying opportunities for growth and implementing relevant solutions to increase revenue and improve the patient’s experience. She believes that any successful growth initiative begins with a data driven plan. She is skilled at coaching physician liaison teams in business plan development, defining measurable goals, messaging, and reporting results to hospital leadership teams.
Tricia is passionate about seamless care coordination that drives patient satisfaction and physician loyalty. She’s used her innovative problem-solving skills to successfully develop and implement care coordination solutions that get patients to the right care and improve alignment for healthcare organizations.
Recent Posts and Articles
Listening… So Obvious and So Hard To Do
By Kriss Barlow, RN, MBA For those who work with physicians, the goal of our interactions is to create a relationship that provides mutual value. Successful long-term relationships are about getting to know the physician. As the relationship progresses, through...
Making Sure Your Field Team is Heard
By Kriss Barlow, RN, MBA Healthcare leaders are keenly aware of the physician’s role – and the need to forge the right kind of relationships moving forward. As they work through business solutions the field team can be a valuable conduit for information. But, do they...
Operational Readiness to Sell a Service
by Kriss Barlow, RN, MBA Have you ever been asked to grow a part of the business only to jump in and then feel like it was a waste of your time and sometimes your credibility? We’ve all done it once and with that painful reality comes a great chance to establish...
Planning Before Doing
By Dave Zirkle Success in today’s challenging healthcare environment rarely occurs by chance but rather through well-designed and executed planning. And this is definitely true in the category of physician relations. Good physician sales planning addresses four basic...
Data is your Friend
By David F. Zirkle, PhD While slow to penetrate many physician relations programs, the use of data to drive decision-making has now become the norm. Successful programs recognize data is a key ingredient to improve performance and maximize growth opportunities....
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 their...
Four Barriers to Successful Physician Sales
Author: Kriss Barlow, RN, MBA This article appeared in Healthcare Marketing Advisor, January 2007 and was updated by the author in 2009, to provide readers with the most current market reflections. What makes some physician relations programs so successful, whereas...