Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Leader Alignment – up, down, and sideways
How well aligned are you with:
· Your peers,
· Your direct reports, and
· Your boss?
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Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Mar 27
Management in the Information Age: Overcoming Workforce Challenges
Overcoming modern workforce challenges requires leadership approaches moving from prior Industrial Age to Information Age management.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Mar 6
Do Patients or Care Givers Come First? It Depends…
“Who comes first?” For care givers, it’s their patients. For administrators, it’s their front-line care givers.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Jan 18
Why do Healthcare Systems Tolerate Toxic Workplaces?
A look at why there is so little action by healthcare leaders to address toxic workplaces...
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Dec 11, 2023
Absence of Fairness – An Overlooked Driver of Healthcare Burnout
Absence of fairness is an overlooked yet significant driver of burnout. It takes place at both a micro and macro level.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Nov 28, 2023
Eliminate Physician Frustrations to Prevent Physician Burnout
Do you experience clinical workflow barriers and frustrations? They can be the first steps to burnout.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Nov 1, 2023
Why Do We Call it “Admin Time”?
Let’s call "Admin Time" what it really is, "Clerical Time" doctors spend doing work someone else should be doing.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Sep 13, 2023
Improve Practice Efficiency to Reduce Healthcare Burnout
Here's how healthcare executives can reduce clinician burnout by innovating the work environment/work flow and improving practice efficiency
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Aug 14, 2023
Shadowing Physicians: Going Where the Work Is Done
Healthcare leaders need to go where the actual work is being done in order to make better informed decisions. Here's why...
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Jul 10, 2023
Funding Clinician Wellbeing Work
Here are three approaches for funding clinician wellbeing work to improve the workplace and reduce healthcare-related burnout.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Jun 12, 2023
Getting Aligned in the Healthcare Setting - Up, Down, and Sideways
Are you aligned with your healthcare team and organization? Here's why it's so important to the culture of your leadership team...
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
May 26, 2023
Introducing Organizational Wellbeing Solutions - Designed for Healthcare Leaders
Introducing a new consulting group - Organizational Wellbeing Solutions - helping healthcare leaders reduce their burnout and their teams'.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Apr 10, 2023
Reducing Burnout - An Overview
Learn about the three areas of focus that are important in order to reduce burnout and achieve professional fulfillment.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Mar 27, 2023
Understanding Burnout
Dr. Paul DeChant explains how healthcare and clinician burnout is the manifestation, in an individual, of dysfunction in the workplace.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Mar 16, 2023
How to Beat Burnout While Building the Bottom Line
Dr. Paul DeChant, burnout expert, shows how to beat burnout through fixing workplace dysfunction, not simply building personal resilience
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Sep 4, 2022
Fix the Clinical Workplace, Not the Clinicians
Burnout is the manifestation in an individual of significant dysfunction in that person’s workplace. Clinical workplaces today are rife...
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Dec 23, 2021
Dr. Michael Privitera: Human Factors Ergonomics Science, Leadership, and Burnout
Dr. Michael Privitera shares how Human Factors Engineering deepens our understanding of clinician burnout and effective primary prevention.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Dec 15, 2021
Dr. Robert Pearl – Fixing Healthcare for the Future
Looking forward to Dr. Robert Pearl's kick-off keynote at the Healthcare Burnout Symposium in San Francisco this January 24th.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Jan 22, 2021
The AMGA and the Pandemic
I’m pleased to share my discussion with Jerry Penso, MD, MBA, the President and CEO of the American Medical Group Association (AMGA).
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Jan 12, 2021
Healthcare Boards Supporting Clinician Burnout
What is the role of the board of directors in addressing clinician burnout?
This is the focus of my discussion with Dr. Byron Scott.
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