Publications

Monographs - Published by the American Hospital Association

 
Hospital-Physician Clinical Integration This monograph provides an assessment of the current hospital-physician landscape and outlines an innovative vehicle for advancing hospital-physician relationships that has the potential to improve care delivery and coordination, clinical quality, and patient cost. Our findings and recommendations address:

• Changes in the market place.
• The concept of an integrated medical staff model.
• The role of operational clinical integration, enabled by an Electronic Medical
• Record, toward creating virtual medical staffs.
• Benefits to the hospital, physicians, patients and community.
• What boards and senior management can do to move toward the model.
     
     
Exploring Hospital-Physician Business Relationships: What Trustees Need to Know This monograph discusses the key role of the health care organization governing board in working with physicians to frame the value exchange between both parties in the context of the organization’s mission, goals and market position.  Our findings and recommendations address:

• Guiding organizations in moving beyond transactional relationships
• Specific opportunities for hospital/physician collaboration
• Building an infrastructure to enable collaboration
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