Surveys, interviews and research conducted over the last two years by the American College of Physician Executives are helping to identify and troubleshoot some of medical management's most pressing problems in health care today. Among the issues that ACPE took on are disruptive behavior by physicians, ethical breaches in health...
Real clarity, and the energy that flows with it, occur when targets are so well specified that you can measure where you are, where you want to be and your progress along the way during the journey. Evidence indicates that organizations that clearly defined who they are values and purpose...
Change is difficult and failure rates for change initiatives are high, often exceeding 65 percent. Health care is no exception, and the cost of unsuccessful initiatives - such as patient safety, physician relations, new information technology - may well be beyond our ability to pay in either dollars or lives....
Change is difficult and failure rates for change initiatives such as new technologies, customer-oriented cultural transformations, mergers and acquisitions, process improvements and restructurings are high. Health care is no exception. Implementing transitions in health care organizations is particularly challenging given the conflicting interests of many stakeholders, the frequent lack of...
Many leaders complain about how difficult it is to attract, rely on, and retain good people. Yet, simultaneously, they engage in practices that actually encourage turnover rather than attract and retain top performers. This article presents the steps that can be taken right away to improve an organization's working environment...
From the executive summary: ‘Employees connect and commit themselves to an employer when there is individual respect and care, when they can use satisfying skills, and when they find meaning in a workforce community. In today’s competitive healthcare market, finding and keeping good employees is important to an organization’s success....
The winner of the second annual Executive War College Scholarship program is Cynthia Parrish from Thomasvillc, Georgia's JDArchbold Memorial Hospital. Parrish has more than 27 years' experience in the clinical laboratory by way of hospital, reference, and physician-office laboratories as a generalist. within a specialty, and in laboratory management. She...
Byline: Andis Robeznieks The retirement of Roger Schenke, who founded the organization now known as the American College of Physician Executives and then led it for more than 30 years, is not expected to hurt the organization's mission of providing physician-executives with leadership...
MARLBOROUGH, Mass. -- Sepracor Inc. (Nasdaq: SEPR) announced today the launch of "My Allergies in America" (www.myallergiesinamerica.com), a comprehensive resource for physicians and consumers based on the two-part, landmark "Allergies in America" survey of adults, adolescents and children with allergic rhinitis. The survey, endorsed by the American College of Allergy,...
Andrew Van Tosh was elected governor of the New York State Chapter of the American College of Cardiology. He is clinical director of nuclear cardiology at St. Francis Hospital. South Nassau Communities Hospital has named Mark A. Bogen vice president of finance. He will be responsible...
MORRISTOWN, N.J. -- Helping hospital emergency departments improve overcrowding and recoup millions of dollars in lost payments is the goal of a collaborative agreement between Medrium and Emergenuity. Medrium is one of the nation's top independent medical reimbursement companies. Emergenuity is a healthcare process management organization that uses clinical insights...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Steve Noble of Noble Sports Chiropractic in Bellingham earned the designation of certified chiropractic sports physician. Noble attended a minimum of 100 hours of a post-graduate program focusing on physical fitness and the evaluation and treatment of ...
ACPE has moved its offices to downtown Tampa. Please take note of our new address. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] American College of Physician Executives 400 North Ashley Drive, Suite 400 Tampa, FL 33602 Our toll-free phone number remains the same: 800-562-8088 ...
Byline: Charles S. Lauer Not enough people in this industry seem to care enough about the patient experience in their institutions. Spending on the simple things that can make being in the hospital just a little bit friendlier and less unsettling is seen...
Byline: Todd Sloane The Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Opinion Leaders Survey, conducted by Harris Interactive, is an online poll designed to highlight perspectives on the most timely health-policy issues from a panel of the nation's leading hospital systems, physician and health plan executives,...
Byline: Melanie Evans Financial challenges, such as rising labor costs and bad debt, again ranked as the top concern for hospital chief executive officers, according to a yearly survey by the American College of Healthcare Executives. Providing care to...
In principle, allowing patients more access to health care pricing information has wide support. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In fact, a majority of physicians say there is a need for even greater transparency in the pricing of services and procedures. But where the trend is headed...
April 18-22, 2008 Marriott Marquis Times Square New York City American College of Physician Executives The American College of Physician Executives invites you to attend the 2008 Spring Institute & Annual Meeting in New York City. Not sure where to...
Transparency is happening in all sectors of the economy; there is no reason health care should be different." "Prices are only useful if services are directly comparable, and quality also comparable. I doubt [price transparency] will ever catch on. It's too complicated." "Transparency is a growing...
JONATHAN I. RAVDIN, M.D., the Nesbitt Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School and an international leader in infectious diseases, has been appointed Dean and Executive Vice President of the Medical College of Wisconsin. Ravdin's work has lead to the development...
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