Successful leaders are finding ways to address the signs, symptoms, and causes of the physician grief reaction to the tumultuous marketplace changes affecting how they view themselves as professionals and how they practice medicine. Health care CEOs continue to place the search for solutions, physician-hospital integration, and the alignment of system and physician incentives as their number one strategic priority. This article reviews common sources of anger and identifies potential solutions. Abstract Article offers clear-cut and succinct advice on how to to obtain best results from purchase of physician practices.
Article also identifies the most frequent faililngs in the physician-organization arrangement.
In the continuing push for cost containment in health care, many organizations have turned to cost reduction methods that fundamentally change the way care is delivered. As health care organizations continue to make financially-driven staffing changes that impact patient care, medical leadership must take on greater responsibility for operational management. Physician executives are uniquely qualified to take on leadership roles in work redesign, and must do so to ensure excellent and fiscally-responsible patient care. This article presents a proven methodology for work redesign that helps physician executives apply their clinical skills to operational management in designing new health care delivery models. Building Effective Health Care Organizational Structures.