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Three ways to improve physicians' professional satisfaction

Physicians often feel exhausted and overburdened. Three ways to prevent burnout and professional satisfaction make it easier for physicians to practice so they can focus on patients and relieve some of that stress.

Physician Health
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What physicians need for integrating with hospitals

Physicians discussed the challenges they're experiencing firsthand with integrating into hospital employed settings during a panel discussion at the 2015 AMA Annual Meeting. The panel also discussed what is needed to make the process work.

Payment & Delivery Models
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6 characteristics of successful physician-hospital relationships

For physicians who want to work in hospitals or health systems, or to integrate their practices, new guidelines outline the six characteristics for successful relationships. They help foster more collaborative and cohesive decision-making at the leadership level.

Payment & Delivery Models
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AHA and AMA offer new guiding principles on integrated leadership

The AMA and the American Hospital Assn. released guidelines to bring clinical skills and business insights together for better health-system decision making.

Press Releases
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Bridging a divide through collaborative care

A recent article from the New England Journal of Medicine suggests the current division of labor between hospitalists and primary care physicians (PCPs) needs to be reconsidered.

Payment & Delivery Models
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Doctors tell CMS to put the brakes on new medical staff rules

A final rule revising Medicare’s conditions of participation for hospitals could impact physicians’ role in hospital governance and patient care activities. Under the latest final rule, published in May and scheduled to take effect July 11, a multi-hospital health system would be permitted to have a single, integrated medical staff.

Payment & Delivery Models
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What the future holds for integrated care

Moving health care toward greater integration soon will be crucial for improving costs, quality and access to care, Mayo Clinic Health System CEO Robert Nesse, MD, told physicians earlier this month during the 2014 AMA Annual Meeting.

Payment & Delivery Models
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Multi-hospital systems may now have one integrated medical staff

A multi-hospital system can now have a single integrated medical staff, rather than requiring a separate medical staff at each hospital, under a final rule (AMA login required) issued last week by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

Payment & Delivery Models
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4 MIN READ

What makes a successful hospital-physician relationship

Health care delivery models—and relationships between hospitals and physicians—are changing rapidly, but until more systems implement new models, the traditional structure isn’t going away, according to discussions from an industry conference highlighted in an April 18 Health Affairs blog post.

Patient Support & Advocacy