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Three Areas of Health Care Conflict Being Reported by the Media
By Holly Hayes - February 27, 2014
Whether through employment or contractual means, exclusive relationships with a high-performing “group” of clinicians unafraid of risk, receptive to team-based delivery and accomplished in the use of clinical and administrative information technologies is the most difficult challenge facing hospitals.
AMA Twelve Principles for Improving Hospital-Physician Relationships
By Holly Hayes - April 4, 2013
The American Medical Association (AMA) Organized Medical Staff Section (OMSS) provides a list of 12 principles for strengthening the physician-hospital relationship on their website. This principle is consistent with The Joint Commission revised medical staff standard (MS) 010101 Jane Reister Conrad wrote an excellent post about the standard. Let us know your thoughts about improving hospital-physician relationships.
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Supports ADR
By Holly Hayes - December 5, 2012
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) issued a Position Statement on Medical Liability Reform by David H. Sohn, JD, MD, and S. Jay Jayasankar, MD stating: “The AAOS believes that broad reforms are necessary to compensate negligently injured patients promptly and equitably, enhance patient–physician communication, facilitate improvement of patient safety and quality of care, reduce defensive medicine and wasteful spending, decrease l
Time to Teach Conflict Engagement Skills in Medical Schools?
By Victoria VanBuren - August 17, 2012
by Holly Hayes The New York Times Health/Science blog posted an article titled, “The Bullying Culture of Medical School” by Pauline W. Chen, MD. The post states: For 30 years, medical educators have known that becoming a doctor requires more than an endless array of standardized exams, long hours on the wards and years spent in training. For many medical students, verbal and physical harassment and intimidation are part of the exhaust
The Power of One Leader: Learning from Medical Mistakes
By Victoria VanBuren - August 3, 2012
by Holly Hayes The American Journal of Mediation Fifth Edition focuses on mediation in healthcare. Dale Hetzler, Deanne R. Messina and Kimberly J. Smith write about “Conflict Management in Hospital Systems: Not Just for Leadership”. They contend “communication skills and conflict skills will be primary predictors of the organizations ability to progress in both quality improvement and patient safety, and will therefore equip its
Medical Mediator
By Victoria VanBuren - July 9, 2012
by Holly Hayes We recently blogged about the role of the “standing neutral” in healthcare and listed the advantages and disadvantages of this approach. Premier, a healthcare alliance with approximately 200 hospital and healthcare system members, posted a presentation about the “The Role of a Medical Mediator”, see here. The presentation provides details on the objectives of a medical mediator (MM) program, its goals, organ
Lowering Malpractice Risk through Disclosure
By Holly Hayes - March 23, 2012
by Holly Hayes The University of Michigan Health System implemented a system to respond to patient injuries and medical malpractice claims and has “lowered its average monthly cost rates for liability, patient compensation, reserves, and non-compensation legal costs” as well as reducing “its average monthly rate of new claims from 7.03 to 4.52 claims per 100,000 patient encounters, decreased the average monthly rate of lawsuits
Bold Predictions about Health Care Reform
By Holly Hayes - March 2, 2012
by Holly Hayes Marc Bard, chief innovation office in Navigant’s health care practice, and co-author of the book “Accountable Care Organizations, Your Guide to Strategy, Design, and Implementation” made six predictions about health care reform last week. The predictions are listed in the blog CommonHealth Reform and Reality and are in response to some specific changes in Massachusetts health care reform. Two predictions include: More t
Partnership for Patients Initiative Launched
By Holly Hayes - April 22, 2011
by Holly Hayes According to Healthcare.gov, Medicaid Services (CMS) has committed up to $500 million to examine different models for improving patient care and engagement as well as collaboration with patients to reduce hospital-acquired conditions and improve transition of patients between care providers. The initiative called: Partnership for Patients: Better Care, Lower Costs is a new public-private partnership designed to “help improve
Toolkit to Address Disruptive Behavior in Healthcare Published
By Holly Hayes - February 11, 2011
by Holly Hayes The U.S. Department of Defense has published an on-line Professional Conduct Toolkit designed to help put a stop to disruptive behaviors in healthcare that “undermine team effectiveness, contribute to unhealthy work environments, and put patients at risk.” The toolkit consists of four modules: Professional Conduct, Teamwork, and Patient Safety Responding to Behaviors that Undermine Safe Patient Care Supporting engagemen
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