Medicine & Business

Physicians can get to the root cause of frequency and severity, and use the committee as a vehicle for changing the liability equation.

Health care organizations are placing greater emphasis on quality outcomes, with boards and chief executives developing compensation strategies to recruit and retain physician executives capable of driving their organizations to achieve their quality objectives.

Ensuring the continuity of your practice requires planning that addresses key aspects of your operation, including facilities and equipment, key employees, communications, and paper-based records.

Practices of all shapes and sizes can use the Internet to conduct economical, reliable surveys that give your patients a voice, and provide valuable information on improving service and care.

Accurate and meaningful information will strengthen the doctor-patient relationship while misleading or inaccurate information may complicate that relationship considerably. Physicians need to act quickly to influence what standards, data and measures are used and push accrediting agencies to police CDST effectively.

You may not have the time, resources or budget to implement an EMR system now, but that shouldn’t stop you from being able to move toward being paperless and electronic.

The MCARE Act’s self-reporting requirement increases the chances that the Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs will open an investigation file that could potentially lead to a disciplinary action against a professional’s license to practice.

How often do you consider the need for a review of your personal finances?

Such changes add not only to complexity in the system, but also to financial and legal exposures as the providers of the care.

With such an agreement, your practice can survive the death, permanent disability or retirement of a partner. You can’t afford to do without one.