As the healthcare industry becomes increasingly integrated in pursuit of achieving the triple aim, hospitals and physicians are beginning to work more closely to reduce redundancies in care, increase communication and decrease costs.
The following stories published in Becker's Hospital Review since May cover various aspects of building alignment and stronger relationships between hospitals and physicians.
1. Here are five things to know about co-management agreements, which are becoming a popular model for increased hospital-physician alignment.
2. Jerome Levine, MD, senior physician executive and consultant with Coors Healthcare Solutions, and Phillip Wright, CEO of Santa Rosa Medical Center in Milton, Fla., discussed how physician advisory councils can go a long way toward building lasting hospital-physician alignment.
3. Gary Wainer, DO, former CMO of Chicago Health System and current medical director for Winfield, Ill.-based Cadence Medical Partners; Joane Goodroe, RN, an independent consultant with Joane Goodroe Healthcare Services; and Gail Peace, president of Ludi, shared needed steps to create and maintain hospital-physician economic alignment.
4. Ronald Riner, MD, president and CEO of The Riner Group, shared the top four challenges of moving self-employed physicians into a hospital employment model.
5. Achieving the triple aim will be impossible without collaboration between physicians and hospitals, according to Rick Sheff, MD, principal and CMO of The Greeley Company. He shared seven tips on avoiding and resolving hospital-physician conflicts that can undermine close alignment.