Optimizing Organizational Alignment for Healthcare Success
Optimizing Organizational Alignment for Healthcare Success By John Rezen System-wide understanding and cross-departmental teamwork in complex environments is especially crucial in healthcare, where service gaps often emerge during interdepartmental handoffs. Health systems must take deliberate steps to foster alignment, collaboration, and efficiency. Lean methodologies and operational tools provide a clear pathway to achieving these goals. […]
Measuring the Quality of Surgical Care
The following three sets of measures are proposed to measure surgical quality: 1. Adverse Events: The first measure would be the percentage frequency of the following adverse events. a. Unplanned return to surgery b. Complications c. Admissions/Readmissions during the global period d. ED visits in the global period 2. Variation from the Plan of Care: […]
The Service Line Vision
SERVICE LINE VISION A. DELIVERY SYSTEM 1. Patients are scheduled with the right provider at the right time. The roles of each provider in the treatment of a disease category are clearly defined. Decision trees are utilized to place patients with the right provider. Decision trees identify all the information required to make appropriate screening […]
7 Essential Components of a High Performing Physician Enterprise
https://www.mgma.com/articles/7-essential-components-of-a-high-performing-physician-enterprise
Failure Mode Analysis
A key step in building a high performing organization is to adopt the Toyota principle of “stopping to fix problems”. Leaders will often adopt this principle but fail to effectively execute on it because they pursue solutions without identifying the cause of the problem. This approach places the organization in a tampering mode where there […]
Financial Optimization Briefs For Physician Practices
Financial Optimization Briefs For Physician Practices https://www.mgma.com/articles/financial-optimization-for-physician-practices-assessment-and-improvement-opportunities The following 12-part series is focused on optimizing medical group financial performance. Each brief in this series takes 2 to 3 minutes to read and identifies specific actions medical groups can take to achieve sustainable financial improvements. Please make an opportunity to read these briefs and use this […]
Achieving Healthcare Value through Care Plan Accountability
http://www.sciencepg.com/article/10.11648/j.sjph.20241206.12
7 steps toward compensating primary care physicians for their true value
The problem The volume-based reimbursement system for primary care physicians is a barrier in the path to greater value in healthcare. Although primary care providers are expected to take a wholistic approach toward managing their patient population’s health, they continue to be paid on volume-based formulas. In the past 10 years, CMS has introduced additional […]
How to apply a value equation in setting compensation for specialty providers
The steadily rising number of hospital-employed physicians in recent years has imposed an increasing financial and operational burden on hospitals. Hospitals are under pressure to run value-driven, lean operations to retain physicians and remain viable. Setting physician compensation at appropriate levels, acceptable to physicians, is of paramount concern. Although many compensation models exist, […]
Elevating Employee Engagement
Employee Engagement is essential for a high performing organization. Unfortunately, it is uncommon in our organizations. A recent news article on the subject celebrated a Gallup survey which found employee engagement rose to 34% in 2019. This celebrated level leaves two thirds of the employee population disengaged in their work. Clearly, employee engagement cannot be […]