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Tweets and Quotes From MGMA15

The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) recently held its annual conference in Nashville, Tennessee. The meeting produced some memorable quotes, including the following highlights:

“Your competitors are lazier than you think.” — Keynote Speaker Jeremy Gutsche, founder, CEO, and chief trend hunter of Trendhunter.com

“Doctors and administrators, it’s time we got as good at fighting for our dollars as insurance companies are at fighting for theirs.” — Halee Fischer-Wright, MD, MMM, FAAP, CMPE, president and CEO of MGMA

“If we want to create the health care system we want to see, it’s time we stop whining and start leading.” — Fischer-Wright

“Teams of clinicians of MDs and admins and managers—teams—deliver far better results than individuals. It’s pit crews that we need for our patients.” — Keynote Speaker Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, a professor at Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School

Attendees followed the conversation on social media via the hashtag #MGMA15. Here’s what a few of them had to say on Twitter:

@ehrandhit
Health care is afraid to change and cause damage. What many don’t realize is doing nothing can cause even more damage. #mgma15

@myUHC
#MGMA15 keynote @JeremyGutsche talked about why health care has to get BETTER at adapting to change & FASTER at finding big ideas.

@GabrielSPerna
“If you don’t know the patient’s priority...there’s a highly technical procedure to find out...you ask them.” @Atul_Gawande #mgma15

@CMOChat
#atulgawande “We’ve rewarded Cowboys but we need pit crews” for better patient outcomes #mgma15 @AmerMedicalAssn

@JennHIStalk
You don’t have to switch EHRs to move to value-based population health models! Plenty of IT out there for interfacing. - @GFilicko #MGMA15

@Grimshawtweets
“We often base care on what’s the matter with you instead of what matters to you,” says #MGMA15 speaker, echoing @Atul_Gawande message.

@daniel_hoyt
“If it’s a duck, it’s a duck, and you can’t send a duck to Eagle school.” Great advice about leadership from @MGMA #MGMA15