Influence
“Profiles in Success”: Certified Physician Executives Share the Value and ROI of their CPE Education
Peter B. Angood, MD, FRCS(C), FACS, MCCM, FAAPL(Hon)
AAPL believes physician leaders who are pursuing leadership education and training — and the organizations that are supporting their effort — should be able to clearly see the value of their time, money, and effort.
Quality Improvement
Welcome to the HALM Journal from the American Association for Physician Leadership
Peter B. Angood, MD, FRCS(C), FACS, MCCM, FAAPL(Hon)
Every other month, the HALM Journal will deliver indispensable and reliable results-oriented guidance for a healthcare industry moving toward inter-professional management and leadership that positively impacts patient care outcomes and population health.
Communication Strategies
How Companies Should Weigh In on a Controversy
David M. Bersoff, Sandra J. Sucher, Peter Tufano
Executives need guidance about managing their organizations’ engagement with societal issues—including hot-button topics such as gender, climate, and racial discrimination. Success in this realm does not mean avoiding public controversy or achieving unanimous support among key stakeholders, the authors write. Rather, it results from adhering to certain processes and strategies, which they have derived from recent global survey research along with examples from managerial best practice.
Health Law
Physician Utilization Review: The Chasm of Potential Liability for Both Treating and Utilization Review Physicians
Timothy E. Paterick, MD, JD, MBA
There has been a dramatic escalation in the use of utilization review programs in an effort to constrain the surge of rising healthcare costs. Utilization review serves to verify the “medical necessity” of hospital admissions and specific medical procedures. However, by intruding into the traditional physician–patient relationship, utilization review programs raise an army of liability issues.
SoundPractice Podcast
The Catholic Church and Its Hospitals: New Book by Dr. Patricia Gabow
Patricia A. Gabow, MD, MACP
The word Catholic is often capitalized and used in reference to the religious denomination. It may also be an adjective meaning comprehensive or universal. On this episode of SoundPractice we will be discussing the term in both of its definitions. The Ca...
Strategic Perspective
Effective Patient Scheduling
John Guiliana, DPM, MS, Hal Ornstein, DPM, FASPS
In the physician’s office, the schedule itself is the most powerful and influential aspect of the physician’s day — and it can control you or you can control it.
Judgment
From the Idea to the Business Plan: Evaluating the Opportunity
Luis G. Pareras, MD, PhD
The business plan is the basic tool that entrepreneurs in the health sector need to transform their idea into an opportunity and make it happen. Evaluating the opportunity is the first step in the process.
New Book
Working Happy! How to Survive Burnout and Find Your Work/Life Synergy in the Healthcare Industry
Roger Kapoor, MD, MBA
The book takes an innovative, hands-on approach toward the two most important causes of employee burnout: workplace environment and personal attitude and behavior.
Patient Experience and the CMO
Why Occupational Health Matters
The Link Between Physician Stress, Burnout, and Disruptive Behaviors
The Challenges of Being a Positive Role Model for Your Employees
From the Idea to the Business Plan: Evaluating the Opportunity
Physician Utilization Review: The Chasm of Potential Liability for Both Treating and Utilization Review Physicians
Action Orientation
Project Managers, Focus on Outcomes — Not Deliverables
Andrea Belk Olson
If you’ve ever developed a product, you’ve almost certainly been derailed by scope creep. Features multiply, priorities blur, and schedules and budgets suffer. As a leader, how can you recognize scope creep and realign your team? Shift the focus from “what” you’re building (the deliverables) to “why” you’re building it (the outcomes). In this article, I’ll explain how you can keep your team’s efforts aligned with the genuine needs of your audience.
Strategic Perspective
Create a System to Grow Consistently
Paul Leinwand, Paul Blase
Research from PwC reveals that the highest-performing organizations invest in a growth system, an integrated collection of capabilities and assets that drives both short-term and long-term growth. The authors provide a framework for building a growth system offering case examples highlighting Toast, IKEA, Vertex, Adobe, and Roblox.
Systems Awareness
Patient Experience and the CMO
Jason M. Golbin, DO, MBA, MS
Improving the patient’s experience is not easy because it often requires a change in the overall culture of the healthcare organization.
Health Law
The Physician in Flight: The Moral and Legal Responsibilities of Physicians When Present for In-Flight Medical Emergencies
Timothy E. Paterick, MD, JD, MBA, Sandy Sanbar, MD, PhD, JD
A physician boards a plane and sits down. If there is a medical emergency in-flight, does the physician face moral/ethical/legal risk by acts of commission or omission in relation to the medical emergency?
Systems Awareness
Why Occupational Health Matters
Corey M. Cronrath, DO, MPH, MBA, CPE
Corey Conrath is service line medical director for Marshfield Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He describes here the importance of occupational health.