A 5-Minute Checkup on Your Digital Physician Recruiting Platform

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Healthcare Revenue, LinkedIn, Social Media

If you want to know if your healthcare organization “gets” how to do physician recruiting online, here’s a way to assess them in less than five minutes. Go to your organization’s website career landing page and check to see how many physician jobs are listed. Then go...

Physician Mission Statements: Your Employers or Your Own?

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Healthcare Ethics

Here are some lovely parts of various purpose, principles, value, vision, and mission statements from several large healthcare organizations: Improving customers’ lives by making healthcare work better.Our customers are at the center of all we do.Act with...

The Definition of Innovation: Mine or MIT’s?

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Healthcare Innovation

If you pursue a Certificate of Strategy and Innovation at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, one of the first questions you will be asked is what is your definition of innovation. My answer was “Creativity Engineering.” I liked the Venn diagram-like overlap of the...

The One Question to Determine if Your Organization’s EHR Mining is Ethical

by Matthew Rehrl MD | AI Ethics, EHR, Philosophy

EHRs are superior to paper charts in two ways. First—because their content is digital—their contents are more easily mined, analyzed, and shared. And second? EHRs offer the ability to communicate directly to the patient, allowing the physician (or the...

What I Use as a Practical Definition of “Disease”

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Health, Philosophy

Having a working, practical definition of what a disease is can help when trying to decide whether this-or-that thing is a disease, or when using the term “disease” in communication. The definition I use for the term disease is criteria-based. The criteria I use are:...