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Title Slide
Slide 1: Healthcare Governance and Efficiency
Tension Factors
The Medical Staff
- Medical staff and administrative goals and priorities differ
- Communication and collaboration problems between the medical personnel and administrative staff
- The power struggle between the medical staff and administrative personnel
Board of Trustees
- Hospital operations require varying levels of knowledge and expertise
- Pressure to make financially-motivated decisions
- Conflicts between the hospital administration and staff regarding strategy and direction
Slide 4: Administration
- Maintaining financial stability is a priority
- Balance between patient care and business operations
- Medical staff and the board of trustees may resist administrative decisions
Hospital Quality Reports: Public Reporting
LeapFrog Group Public Reporting: Slide 5
- LeapFrog Group mission and history
- Reporting hospital quality to the public has its benefits
- The challenges of accurately measuring hospital quality and reporting it
Slide 6: Public Readiness for Information
- Discuss patient readiness for public reporting
- Public reporting and patient decisions
- Public reporting strategies to improve patient understanding
Physician Entrepreneurial Initiatives
The Patient’s Perspective: Slide 7.
- Specialized care more accessible
- Reduced costs
- Lack of regulations and quality concerns
- Care fragmentation is increasing
Slide 8: How to Address Financial Challenges
- Hospitals and physicians entrepreneurs can work together to create a collaborative relationship
- Physician entrepreneurial initiatives are being regulated more strictly
- Different payment models that reward quality rather than quantity
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