Demetrios Perdikis

More than team building and management.

Collaboration is, to me, about the division of labor (as the word's etymology implies) that leads to cooperation toward a common goal. There are two models of collaboration and team-building that I believe speak to the spirit of consensual cooperation.

One is Christensen's model of consensus-driven cooperation*. From that view, the effectiveness of collaboration depends on how well one executes two factors. The first is to correctly…

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This article by Ives nicely describes the role of audiologists in distinguishing among major dizziness types. I especially like the author's integrating such reimbursement items as proper coding into the article's clinical context.





Discovering the Dizzy Patient

by Terri E. Ives, ScD, AuD, CCC-A, FAAA



The year 2009 brings a new billing code into the world of dizziness evaluation. At the end of October 2008, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services… Continue

Can building tribes be a catalyst for improving medical care value?



To Seth Godin our Tribes are what connect us to ideas that we find important.



What value we place on our medical care is determined by the stakeholders of our care. Stakeholders in our care are the individuals and groups of people organized as entities or otherwise who stand to benefit from our medical improvement or be somehow penalized by our medical deterioration.



Who are the… Continue

It is axiomatic that to most effectively treat a disease you must first establish a diagnosis. While good diagnosis is no guarantee of a great outcome, some form of poor diagnosis, whether incomplete or missed, makes a poor outcome virtually certain.



As such, diagnoses have long been considered the observable effects of a biological problem. This surface approach is the result of entrenched patient interviewing methods that consider a person’s history as a mere chronology of events… Continue

Our medical care system is missing a framework for understanding the value that patients seek in a medical care encounter. The act of seeking medical counsel is itself a defining characteristic of a patient. Understanding how one comes to seek medical care in the first place is essential to framing a patient's concerns in the right context.



As good business theory goes a transaction is the exchange of tangibles or intangibles that a party values less for other tangibles or… Continue