The ABIM Foundation, created by the American Board of Internal Medicine, will spend the next few years focusing on ways to increase trust among healthcare stakeholders. Through its Building Trust campaign, the Foundation hopes to identify and eliminate the reasons for decreased trust among...
The goal of physician review is to evaluate the appropriateness of care, independent of patient outcome. Although reviewers often believe that outcome is of primary importance, it is well known that a patient can have an adverse outcome that is not due to physician care or have an acceptable...
Physician burnout is widespread in the United States. In a survey The Physicians Foundation conducted in spring 2020, 58% of physicians reported feelings associated with burnout, up from 40% in a survey conducted in 2018. In response, The Physicians Foundation has developed a tool to help...
Telehealth has expanded significantly since the start of the coronavirus pandemic last spring. The expansion of telehealth has included growth in specialties that previously experienced modest adoption of telemedicine, such as oncology. Using telehealth poses risks for healthcare providers,...
Consider joining forces with local or even statewide hospitals to find beds for patients during an emergency surge. The plan could improve patient care while saving precious resources like money, manpower, and staff energy when setting up alternate care sites.
The foundation of the Physician Performance Pyramid, as described in Part 1, is to appoint competent physicians to the medical staff. The more time and effort that is spent here, the easier the rest of the medical staff leader’s job will be. If not enough time is devoted to selecting competent...
