Create Care Standards Your Front Line Will Embrace
Health care leaders recognize care variation reduction as the key to unlocking cost-savings across their organizations. However, care standards are often designed without workflow in mind, making it difficult to translate them into daily practice. We've outlined six tactics to create care standards that proactively account for workflow considerations and are actionable at the front line.
Toolkit for Building Implementation-Ready Care Standards
One reason why care standards fail to make it from paper into practice is that few organizations provide clear guidance about what a care standard should include. We've created a recommended template to help design teams create consistent, comprehensive care standards that frontline clinicians will be able to easily digest and embed in their daily workflow.
Cultivating Effective Physician Leaders
Despite the importance of strong physician leadership, it is a continued area of weakness for many hospitals and health systems. Without enough leaders, organizations are forced to elevate physicians lacking key skills. Doing so often results in underperformance and burnout, making leadership roles even more difficult to fill the next time around. View this one-hour webconference to learn best practices to enhance your formal leadership development efforts and strengthen your physician leader ranks.
The Medical Leader's Guide to Onboarding Newly Hired Physicians
Hospitals increasingly employ physicians but struggle with turnover, particularly in the first three years. And the cost of these early departures adds up quickly. When done well, physician onboarding establishes a strong connection to your organization's mission and helps sustain new physicians' engagement over the long haul. Use our comprehensive checklists and 13 ready-to-use tools to build a physician onboarding program that supports long-term physician engagement and retention.
Want to Reduce Physician Burnout? Start with Engagement.
Nearly half of all physicians report feeling one or more symptoms of burnout. And given the negative effect of burnout on quality, patient experience, and physician turnover, it's no surprise that one of our most frequently asked questions from CMOs is, "What can I do to reduce—or even prevent—physician burnout?" The good news is you can mitigate burnout by doubling down on a strategic imperative you're likely already working on: strengthening physician engagement.
Achieving Better Clinical Decision Support with Fewer Alerts
Clinical decision support (CDS) has the potential to improve health care by reducing adverse events, enhancing clinical outcomes, increasing efficiency, and lowering costs. Unfortunately, due to poorly designed alerts and order sets, most health systems struggle to realize the benefits of CDS. Check out this research report for six strategies to help physician executives drive CDS performance improvement.
Thank You!
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For a preview of our 2019 research agenda, watch out for our next post.