"Great conference! One of the most useful I have attended in years."
—Michael J. Lisenby, MD, Vice President/Chief Medical Officer, East Alabama Medical Center
"It was an excellent program. The faculty was very knowledgeable and well prepared, with good interaction and dialogue between the speakers and attendees."
—Rick Foster, MD, Senior Vice President for Quality and Safety, South Carolina Hospital Association
Listen to an informational call on Engaging with Physicians in a Shared Quality Agenda with James Reinertsen, MD, and John Whittington, MD.
Meeting the challenge of physician engagement with hospitals and health systems to improve quality has never been more important. Yet success in implementing steps to fulfill the real potential which lies in the common purposes of hospitals and physicians has proven elusive throughout the country. A key change is to view physicians as the true partners and collaborators with a hospital or health system in achieving real improvement.
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement has developed Engaging with Physicians in a Shared Quality Agenda, a seminar that provides health care leaders with an opportunity to learn and apply concrete practical strategies for engaging physicians in the quality and safety work of their organization. Led by expert IHI senior faculty members James L. Reinertsen, MD, Bill Rupp, MD, Alice Gosfield, JD, and Alva Whitehead, MD, the seminar will offer a methodical six-step framework to develop a plan to engage with physicians using tools to assess and address common barriers to improvement, techniques of messaging and data analysis, practical problem solving exercises, and explicit principles of engagement, all to be applied with an understanding of the barriers and opportunities offered by the Stark and anti-kickback statutes. Team participation at the program — to include leaders of the medical staff, administration, and the board — can jump-start the application of what is learned.
While the program emphasizes hospitals and health systems, its principles and techniques are applicable in other settings as well, such as in physician group practices.
Optional Half-Day Session: The financial and compliance issues involved when partnering with physicians are challenging and complex, with the potential to be extremely costly as well. To help you proactively manage these challenges, we’ve added an optional half-day session that will expand on topics covered briefly during the main program. Presented by Alice Gosfield and Jim Reinertsen from 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM on April 23, this interactive session will use typical scenarios to underscore challenges and potential responses to real-life problems. The creative solutions and guidance you’ll receive will help you avoid the common pitfalls and liabilities that arise when working with physicians and that inevitably detract from your bottom line.
The session will cover two vital topics:
