AMGA/JHD Group EHR Value Survey

This survey included AMGA members and non-members and was designed to understand the experience of physicians and mid-levels regarding the implementation and utilization of Electronic Health Record and Practice Management systems, with a particular focus on identifying the key success factors to capturing the benefits offered by these critical tools. 

The data provides a very rich sample from which to draw conclusions on the factors that distinguish groups that derive the greatest benefits from their EHRs from those that are still struggling to capture the potential value represented by these increasingly ubiquitous tools.

Stark Safe Harbor Meets the Stimulus Bill

This whitepaper provides an assessment of the passing of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) which has given “legs” to accelerate physician electronic health record (EHR) adoption via Stark Safe Harbor compliant programs for hospitals.

The combined Stark Safe Harbor and ARRA makes a clear case to move quickly with an EHR initiative.

Hospital-Physician Clinical Integration
Published by the American Hospital Association

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
Published by the American Hospital Association

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