The Clinical Practice Program: A How-to-Guide for Physician Leaders on Starting Up a Successful Program builds on the concept that successful programs can be differentiated from unsuccessful programs by seven core elements. Dr. Loftus describes his personal journey as a physician executive in implementing clinical practice changes for a large healthcare system. He demonstrates how to incorporate the seven core elements in the development, implementation and sustainability of a clinical practice program.
The Robotics Program: A How-to-Guide for Physician Leaders on Starting Up a Successful Program builds on the concept that successful programs can be differentiated from unsuccessful programs by seven core elements. Dr. Loftus describes his personal journey as a physician executive in developing a surgical robotics program for a large healthcare system. He demonstrates how to incorporate the seven core elements in the development, implementation and sustainability of a robotics program. Reader Comments: "It was truly outstanding and an interesting read. I think it's a great guide for any physician trying to lead a robotics program." "I've finished reading your book, and I found it amazing. I think it's not only a guide for starting a robotic program, but also a guide for starting any program." "I will use all the tips you give for leadership .... It was an inspiring reading."
This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.
The Institute of Medicine study Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) recommended that an interdisciplinary summit be held to further reform of health professions education in order to enhance quality and patient safety. Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality is the follow up to that summit, held in June 2002, where 150 participants across disciplines and occupations developed ideas about how to integrate a core set of competencies into health professions education. These core competencies include patient-centered care, interdisciplinary teams, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and informatics. This book recommends a mix of approaches to health education improvement, including those related to oversight processes, the training environment, research, public reporting, and leadership. Educators, administrators, and health professionals can use this book to help achieve an approach to education that better prepares clinicians to meet both the needs of patients and the requirements of a changing health care system.
Advances in medical, biomedical and health services research have reduced the level of uncertainty in clinical practice. Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) complement this progress by establishing standards of care backed by strong scientific evidence. CPGs are statements that include recommendations intended to optimize patient care. These statements are informed by a systematic review of evidence and an assessment of the benefits and costs of alternative care options. Clinical Practice Guidelines We Can Trust examines the current state of clinical practice guidelines and how they can be improved to enhance healthcare quality and patient outcomes. Clinical practice guidelines now are ubiquitous in our healthcare system. The Guidelines International Network (GIN) database currently lists more than 3,700 guidelines from 39 countries. Developing guidelines presents a number of challenges including lack of transparent methodological practices, difficulty reconciling conflicting guidelines, and conflicts of interest. Clinical Practice Guidelines We Can Trust explores questions surrounding the quality of CPG development processes and the establishment of standards. It proposes eight standards for developing trustworthy clinical practice guidelines emphasizing transparency; management of conflict of interest ; systematic review-guideline development intersection; establishing evidence foundations for and rating strength of guideline recommendations; articulation of recommendations; external review; and updating. Clinical Practice Guidelines We Can Trust shows how clinical practice guidelines can enhance clinician and patient decision-making by translating complex scientific research findings into recommendations for clinical practice that are relevant to the individual patient encounter, instead of implementing a one size fits all approach to patient care. This book contains information directly related to the work of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), as well as various Congressional staff and policymakers. It is a vital resource for medical specialty societies, disease advocacy groups, health professionals, private and international organizations that develop or use clinical practice guidelines, consumers, clinicians, and payers.
Having your medical practice at peak performance occurs when you draw out leadership from each person on the team. No matter where a person is on the organizational chart, they can provide leadership to make the biggest difference for your patients. Expand your ability to lead your staff in being an inspired and fully engaged team.Interact with your staff in a way that encourages unpredictable ideas and solutions to take your practice to higher levels of excellence.Learn how to incorporate a method to track projects and actions so that they fit into the busy schedule of your practice.Increase your patient satisfaction scores as you and your staff incorporate these distinctions and rise to a new level of customer service.Experience an integrated, cohesive team within your practice, aligned to achieve consistent, outstanding medical outcomes for your patients.
Designed as a highly visual and practical resource to be used across the spectrum of lifelong learning, Ballweg's Physician Assistant, 7th Edition, helps you master all the core competencies needed for physician assistant certification, recertification, and clinical practice. It remains the only textbook that covers all aspects of the physician assistant profession, the PA curriculum, and the PA's role in clinical practice. Ideal for both students and practicing PAs, it features a succinct, bulleted writing style, convenient tables, practical case studies, and clinical application questions that enable you to master key concepts and clinical applications. - Addresses all six physician assistant competencies, as well as providing guidance for the newly graduated PA entering practice. - Includes five new chapters: What Is a Physician Assistant, and How Did We Get Here?, Effective Use of Technology for Patient-Centered Care, Success in the Clinical Year, Transitioning to Practice and Working in Teams, and Finding Your Niche. - Features an enhanced focus on content unique to the PA profession that is not readily found in other resources, more illustrations for today's visually oriented learners, a more consistent format throughout, and a new emphasis on the appropriate use of social media among healthcare professionals. - Provides updated content throughout to reflect the needs of the PA profession, including new content on self-care for the PA to help prevent burnout, suicide, and other hazards faced by healthcare professionals. - Guides students in preparation for each core clinical rotation and common electives, as well as working with special patient populations such as patients experiencing homelessness and patients with disabilities. - Includes quick-use resources, such as objectives and key points sections for each chapter, tip boxes with useful advice, abundant tables and images, and more than 130 updated case studies. - Evolve Educator site with an image bank is available to instructors through their Elsevier sales rep or via request at https://evolve.elsevier.com.
The Future of Nursing explores how nurses' roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America's increasingly complex health system. At more than 3 million in number, nurses make up the single largest segment of the health care work force. They also spend the greatest amount of time in delivering patient care as a profession. Nurses therefore have valuable insights and unique abilities to contribute as partners with other health care professionals in improving the quality and safety of care as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted this year. Nurses should be fully engaged with other health professionals and assume leadership roles in redesigning care in the United States. To ensure its members are well-prepared, the profession should institute residency training for nurses, increase the percentage of nurses who attain a bachelor's degree to 80 percent by 2020, and double the number who pursue doctorates. Furthermore, regulatory and institutional obstacles-including limits on nurses' scope of practice-should be removed so that the health system can reap the full benefit of nurses' training, skills, and knowledge in patient care. In this book, the Institute of Medicine makes recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.
Increasingly, physicians are leveraging their medical training and expertise to pursue careers in non-traditional arenas. Their goals are diverse: · Explore consulting as a way to improve patient care · Lay the foundation for a career in academic medicine · Provide leadership in healthcare · Strengthen ties between a clinic and the community · Broaden one’s experience as a medical student · As a journalist or writer, open a window onto medicine for non-experts Some physicians will pursue another degree, while others may not, in anticipation of moving into public service, business, education, law, or organized medicine. Their common ground is the desire to enhance their professional fulfillment. Drs. Urman and Ehrenfeld’s book features individual chapters on the wide array of non-traditional careers for physicians, each one written by an outstanding leader in medicine who him- or herself has successfully forged a unique career path. A final chapter brings together fascinating brief profiles – “case studies” – of physicians who have distinguished themselves professionally outside of traditional settings. Suitable for readers at any point in their medical career – practitioners, fellows, residents, and medical students – who want to explore possibilities beyond traditional medical practice, the book also sets out common-sense advice on topics such as work-life balance, mentorship, and the relationship between personality and job satisfaction.
The Healthcare Answer Book provides detailed solutions to 323 of the top challenges faced by healthcare executives today.You''ll get recommended software and tools, staff ratios, program structures, ROI measurement and results for various programs, protecting patient privacy and security in a number of scenarios -- answered by some of the nation''s leading healthcare experts to help you plan, evaluate, manage and improve your organization?s healthcare initiatives.Compiled from a series of live audio conferences in which these industry experts answered questions from the field, this report delves into a variety of topics, including cost containment, disease management, e-Health initiatives, HIPAA security and privacy, healthcare industry trends and workplace wellness.Indexed by topic and by keyword, this guide will become your indispensable research assistant for questions that challenge you and your staff each day. You''ll get the answers you need to such questions as:Cost Containment * What type of software tools are you using for predictive modeling? * Which predictive modeling tools are best for the ROI calculation? * What level of payment or financial risk is needed to change provider behavior? * What is the range of pay-for-performance paybacks and how often are they calculated? * What is the best ROI methodology on P4P programs that you have evaluated and how does it work? * Are tiered networks feasible in smaller markets?Industry Trends * Do you have a recommended reading level for translated written materials for preventative services in either low socio-economic status populations or for children? Also, is there a web site or written reference indicating how to do that? * In this era of consumer-driven healthcare, what quality-related information helps consumers make informed choices about health plans or providers?eHealth Initiatives * What screening requirements do you use for telemedicine patients? Do you evaluate factors outside disease severity? * Can you describe the kind of investment needed to implement e-health tools, how quickly you can achieve an ROI, and what kind of ROIs you can expect? * What criteria are payors and physicians using to determine whether or not an e-visit is billable? Are there clear-cut guidelines? * What lessons have you learned through your personal health record rollout process? What advice can you share with other organizations as they implement their own PHRs?HIPAA Security and Privacy * What are the biggest challenges to offering single sign-on? * How do you secure e-health physician-patient communication?Disease Management * How do strategies for asthma disease management differ for community-based health programs that target the under-served? * What is your staff-to-patient ratio in your depression management program? * How effective are physician-specific report cards in getting physicians in practice with the guidelines? * Is there any other type of literature that would support the effectiveness as well? * What is an accurate assessment of a member?s readiness to change, and how do you create interventions that are applicable to each member?s stage of readiness? * How are the health coaches trained, and what kind of training gets them geared up to work with patients? * What is the average amount of time a health coach spends per call per participant?The Healthcare Answer Book is also available on CD-ROM with keyword searching capability.Table of Contents * About This Document * Cost Containment o Predictive Modeling o Pay for Performance o Predictive Modeling in Pay for Performance o Predictive Modeling for Asthma & Pre-Natal o Reducing Trend & Spend o Tiered Networks * Industry Trends o Cultural Competency o Physician Engagement o Health Plan Quality Improvement o URAC Standards for Consumer Education and Support o The Patient?s Home: The New Healthcare Hub * e-Health Initiatives o Web Technology in CDHC o e-Visits o Moving from High-Tech to High-Touch o The Role of e-Health Initiatives o Personal Health Records & Electronic Medical Records * Disease Management o Asthma o Obesity o Depression o Behavior Modification o Resistant Patients o Health Coaches o Health Coach Training o Pre- and Post-Natal Care o The Role of Primary Care Physicians o Healthcare Toolkits * Workplace Wellness o HRAs o Incentives for Healthy Lifestyles o A Team Approach to Wellness * HIPAA Security and Privacy o HIPAA Security Compliance o HIPAA Security Auditing, Audit Trails & Audit Logs o HIPAA Security Risk Assessment * About the Experts * Glossary * For More Information * Index
