Physician Issues

Expert Insights

• Co-management models especially promising for orthopedic service lines

  November 1, 2011 | Blog | Marketing and Planning Leadership Council

  Hospitals have found that co-management arrangements are particularly well-suited for engaging orthopedists in service line governance. We look at the nuances key to developing an orthopedic co-management structure.

• Link physician incentives to your program’s strategic goals

  October 13, 2011 | Expert Perspective | Oncology Roundtable
  

  54% of cancer programs responding to our survey have implemented performance-based physician compensation, but incentives focus heavily on productivity. Learn how programs are redesigning compensation to advance broader organizational priorities.

• Is CI or employment more effective? Understand what makes medical groups successful

  March 13, 2011 | Expert Perspective | Health Care Advisory Board
  

  It's not the act of employment itself, but rather what you do with those employed physicians that makes the difference.

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Research

• The High-Performance Medical Group

  December 28, 2011 | Study | Health Care Advisory Board
  

  Explore 15 key attributes of organizations that generate strong operational and clinical results by fostering integration among employed physicians and successfully managing physician practices at scale.

• Engaging the Physician Workforce

  October 14, 2011 | Study | HR Investment Center
  

  Implement 15 best practices to improve hospital-physician relationships and enhance alignment.

• Securing Physician Alignment: Partnering with Cardiovascular Specialists to Meet the Challenges of Accountable Care

  March 11, 2011 | Study | Cardiovascular Roundtable
  

  Enhance existing partnerships with cardiovascular specialists and ensure migration to next-generation alignment.

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Tools & Analytics

• The High-Performance Medical Group Toolkit 

  December 28, 2011 | Toolkit | Health Care Advisory Board
  

  Compiles a number of resources generously shared by hospital-employed or standalone medical groups that have achieved clinical, operational, and financial success by fostering cohesion and coordination among physician practices.

• Clinical Integration Investment Calculator

  January 13, 2011 | Tool | Health Care Advisory Board
  

  Assess whether to pursue a clinical integration strategy by calculating expected baseline investment costs in four areas: information technology, program staffing, project development, and administrative expenses.

• Physician Practice Acquisition Toolkit
  

  July 15, 2009 | Tool | Financial Leadership Council
  

  Evaluates all value centers of potential acquisition target, allowing hospital to establish maximum allowable cost for discrete categories and alerting when requested price exceeds those values.

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Multimedia

• Realizing returns from clinical integration

  December 27, 2011 | Video |Health Care Advisory Board

  Sarah O'Hara outlines the benefits clinical integration offers both physicians and hospitals.

• No meeting in the middle

  Video | Talent Development

  Mike Wagner, chief teaching officer, discusses how hospital administrators must be willing to go “all in” in order to achieve successful health system-physician collaboration.

• Securing Physician Partners in Bundled Payments

  February 16, 2011 | On-Demand Webconference | Health Care Advisory Board
  

  Aligning with physicians is essential to succeeding under bundled payments. Drawing on lessons from the Medicare Acute Care Episode (ACE) demonstration sites, this presentation explores strategies for establishing shared governance and designing gainsharing models to drive high performance.

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Products & Services

• Crimson Continuum of Care

  Physician alignment-focused technology solutions and best practice research designed to advance quality and enable cost savings.

• Southwind 

  Physician practice management and consulting services addressing physician employment, physician practice acquisition, clinical integration, and alternative models of physician alignment.

• Physician Engagement 

  Equips health care leaders to engage physicians in improving organizational performance and advancing strategic goals.

• Physician Collaboration 

  Helps executives develop an engaged, responsive medical staff that contributes to improvement initiatives.

• Crimson Market Advantage 

  Technology platform that enables hospitals to understand physician referring and performing patterns and the factors associated with physician loyalty.

• Clinical Integration Project

  Serves hospitals, health systems, and physician organizations working to establish effective clinical integration (CI) programs, develop best practices for operating and refining the performance-focused physician network, and share ongoing lessons learned.