The Physician Leader's Guide

Editor: Richard M. Burton, MD, MBA, FACPE

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The Physician Leader's Guide

This highly successful book on the medical management profession has been revised and expanded to reflect the momentous changes that have occurred in the health care delivery system in the ensuing years. Here is guidance on handling the touchy management decisions involving managed care, quality improvement, medical informatics, and other growing elements of health care management, as well as basic treatment of the core competencies required of medical managers.

370 Pages © 1998

Table of Contents

Chapter One
Roles and Responsibilities

• The Role of the Physician Executive in 2005
• Delineating Responsibility in Practice
• The Role of Physicians in Prioritizing the Work of Teams and the Organization
• Tomorrow's Vice President for Medical Affairs
• Conflict and Cooperation: The Chief Medical Officer and the Chief of Staff as a Team
• What the Governing Board Expects from Physician Leaders and What Physician Leaders Should Expect in Return
• Physician Leadership in Group Practice
  
  

Chapter Two
Managed Care

• Challenges of Managed Care: An Overview for Physician Groups and Enterprises
• Linking Performance Evaluation to Care Delivery
• Physician Compensation in Managed Care Environments
• Managed Care Contracts: A Strategy Approach to Evaluation and Negotiation
• Risk Contracting
• Physician Leaders Are Essential to Achieving Health Gain
  
  

Chapter Three
Continuous Improvement

• Evolution of Quality Assurance and an Overview of TQM
• Doctors and Patients: Breaking Down the Walls
• The Application of Evidence-Based Guidelines to Clinical Practice
• Counseling a Physician with a Clinical Performance Problem
• How to Work with a Physician Who Is Having Interpersonal Problems
• Disease Management: Clinical Practice Improvement in Action
• Developing and Using Clinical Paths
• A Primer on Statistical Tools and Concepts
• HEDIS Measures and the Physician
  
  

Chapter Four
Appointment, Reappointment, and Clinical Privileges

• The Role of the Physician Executive in Orchestrating Credentialing and Privileging
• Delineating Clinical Privileges for New and Cross-Specialty Procedures
• Using Physician Profiles in the Reappointment Process
• Demystifying Economic Credentialing: The Myths and the Realities
• Medical Staff Responsibility for Physician Health
• Re-credentialing the Impaired Physician: Considerations for Continuing or Granting Privileges
  
  

Chapter Five
Management and Leadership Techniques

• Medical Group Governance: Keys to Success
• Physician Effectiveness in Teams
• Medical Informatics: An Evolution for the Physician Leader
• The Physician Leader's Role in Medical Technology Assessment
• Preparing the Medical Practice for the 21st Century
• Ten Ideas for Planning and Conducting Effective Meetings
• Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Personal Development for Physicians in Changing Times
• The Role of Physician Leaders in Strategic Planning