Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to Michael H Annison.
Establishing a trusting relationship with your employees can help you transform your organization into a top performer. Examine how well-defined visions and goals are some of the keys to building that trust.
So far, the human experience comprises about 40,000 years--a period, as the historian Arthur Schlesinger points out, of approximately 800 generations. One of the most striking realities of our collective experience is that the development of what we would consider new technologies has all been essentially within the most recent 10 or so generations. Not surprisingly, the speed and scope of technological innovation has led to struggles in learning to understand and then harness the capabilities we have developed and will continue to develop.
If you think someone else's behavior is blocking you from achieving a goal, think again. As a physician leader, there may be something you can do to take responsibility for a situation and make the necessary changes. Learn how you can help build the trust and cooperation needed to make change happen.
Changes in how we pay for health care, an increasingly rapid rate of technological and medical innovation, the introduction of competition, the development of systems, the growth of complementary medicine and a host of other changes have made it hard for health care leaders to maintain unity and a spirit of collegiality that were once hallmarks of the field.
Over the last decade in Michigan, as in other states, health care has emerged as a significant public policy issue. One of the striking characteristics of the health care debate is that, because it is a relatively new issue compared to others such as education or civil rights, we are still uncertain as to what it means or how we should address it.
The 2002 MHA Health Care Leadership Forum provided an opportunity to review health care reform efforts--what we have accomplished, where we are now and what we need to do next.
In the last year, local, state and federal governments, as well as not-for-profit and private businesses, have had to examine how they would respond to a disaster. The responsibility to be well-prepared is especially important for hospitals for two reasons.