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.
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
