American Hospital Association's Physician Leadership Forum
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Patient-centered medical homes
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has posted a white paper and "decision-maker brief" with recommended policies for better treating medically complex patients in the medical home setting.
 
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Latest webinar ready for download
Our latest webinar, "Washington Report: Political and Regulatory Update – What’s in Store for Physicians in 2012," is now available for download.
 
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Are ACOs the answer for what ails health care?
 
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The American Hospital Association
February 16, 2012
New PLF guide on team-based care now available
The AHA’s Physician Leadership Forum is pleased to share "Team-Based Health Care: Lessons from the Field," a guide describing the core concepts of team-based care. The guide features case studies on how three different leading-edge health care organizations (AtlantiCare Health System, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Marquette General Health System) approached fostering team-based care. While each organization approached team-based care differently, several common themes emerged – having strong leadership in place to lead the change, using data to drive/sustain the change, training/educating members to work as a team, and finding peoples’ passion to motivate them.
 
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Physician leadership in clinical integration webinar set for March 21
The next PLF webinar, "Physician Leadership in Clinical Integration," will take place Wednesday, March 21 beginning at 3 p.m. ET. This free, 90-minute webinar features Jacque Sokolov, MD, chairman and managing partner of SSB Solutions, discussing key physician leadership opportunities in the rapidly expanding world of clinically integrated organizations (CIOs). Dr. Sokolov will review meaningful clinical integration and how it can drive physician alignment and lead to CIOs.
 
In his experience, Dr. Sokolov has found the one constant in developing a successful integrated organization is physician leadership at the governance, management and operating levels. In addition, the ability to deliver on value-based reimbursement contracts will require an ongoing clinical model that is significantly different than today’s and will underscore the need for meaningful physician involvement.
 
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Last chance for docs to experiment with Medicare PQRS
This is the last year physicians can practice/experiment using Medicare’s physician quality reporting system (PQRS) because beginning in 2013, those who volunteer for the system and don’t report enough quality measures risk foregoing a bonus and will see an across-the-board cut in Medicare pay starting in 2015.
 
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Treatment guidelines keeping readmission rates low
Hospitals and health systems are using detailed treatment guidelines as a first line of defense against readmissions.
 
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Grant from NHSC will help place physicians in underserved communities
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently announced that a $9.1 million grant from the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) will provide financial support to fourth-year medical students in 30 States and the District of Columbia who are committed to a career in primary care in exchange for their service in communities with limited access to care.
 
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Needed: 30,000 primary care physicians by 2015
According to The Washington Post, the success of health care reform hinges on the hiring of 30,000 primary care physicians by 2015.
 
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New program aims to increase primary care physicians
The University of Maryland School of Medicine will use a new five-year, $877,000 grant to increase the number of students entering the primary care field by allowing them to work one-on-one with faculty members representing different primary care specialties.
 
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Palliative care subspecialty attracting young physicians
As new doctors gravitate toward the subspecialty of palliative care, a generational divide is beginning to grow.
 
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