Redesign the Medical Staff Model
Redesign the Medical Staff Model is a new publication by Dr. Jonathan Burroughs.
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Retail Medicine Finds Its Place in Population Health
Hospital CEOs may have once cast a wary eye when a retail clinic opened in their backyard, but that paradigm has shifted as health systems are increasingly opening their own retail clinics or affiliating with retail clinic operators.
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How Healthcare Organizations Can Move from Fee for Service to Capitation
Moving a healthcare organization from fee for service to a capitation-based model can be daunting.
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How to Avoid a Clinical Fair Hearing
Most medical staffs can easily avoid fair hearings by focusing on preventive actions and addressing potential performance issues early in a supportive and assertive manner
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Optimize Healthcare Operations: Reduce Operating Costs with Physicians
Align physicians to reduce hospital, healthcare operating costs and optimize operations.
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Work with Your Physicians to Reduce Your Operating Costs: Supply Chain
The supply chain is second only to labor in its significance as an operating cost and physicians can have a significant impact through their utilization of physician preference items (PPIs) and collaboration with management.
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Patient Safety: Doctors, Nurses and Staff Must Hold Each Other Accountable
The field of patient safety became all too personal for me last week when my mother-in-law almost died from an iatrogenic C. Difficile infection of the large bowel caused by the inappropriate use of antibiotics and the failure of healthcare personnel to report their concerns to management or the family.
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How to Work with Your Physicians to Reduce Operating Costs: Align Incentives
It is remarkable how much of a ‘disconnect’ there is between a healthcare organization’s strategic plan and how physicians are compensated and incentivized.
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Rethinking the Hobby Lobby Decision
The recent and narrowly decided (5-4) Supreme Court case of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby is significant and bears further reflection and discussion. It gives for profit ‘closely held corporations’ (where five or fewer shareholders own over 50% of the company) the legal right to opt out of the Patient Protection and Accountable Care Act’s…
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