"Accountable Care: Bridging the Health Information Technology Divide, First Edition (Bridging the Divide), touches on many elements of the healthcare industry's technology journey toward more accountable and clinically integrated models of care delivery. The aging US and global population, complexity of the delivery systems, the continuous need for new innovation, and a greater emphasis on improving population health are key factors addressed throughout the text" --Back cover.

"Accountable Care: Bridging the Health Information Technology Divide, First Edition (Bridging the Divide), touches on many elements of the healthcare industry's technology journey toward more accountable and clinically integrated models of care delivery. The aging US and global population, complexity of the delivery systems, the continuous need for new innovation, and a greater emphasis on improving population health are key factors addressed throughout the text" --Back cover.

Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. In this comprehensive volume the committee offers: A set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system. A set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships. A suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality. Key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems. Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.

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One of the key elements of healthcare reform has been to encourage hospitals, health systems, physicians, and health plans to integrate resources to provide more efficient, cost-effective healthcare. With gaps in guidance on what exactly an ACO should be, healthcare organizations have forged ahead with a myriad of strategies around clinical integration to create the foundations for accountable care. In this HealthLeaders Media Breakthroughs report, leading hospital systems -- Monarch HealthCare, Sisters of St. Francis Hospital and Health Systems, The Nebraska Medical Center, and Palmetto Health -- share insights and lessons learned that will help you: * Define which structures of an accountable care organization may best apply to your health system or medical group practice * Identify key investments that must be made in information technology, care coordination, and post-acute care * Apply physician-alignment knowledge from a variety of settings, from integrated to voluntary staff

The Six P's of Physician Leadership is an executive and academically focused primer that identifies six essential issues for every current, up and coming, and potential physician leader that they can incorporate in their daily work and life. It brings a fresh understanding on the topics of people, presence, politics, process, perspective, and principles of business that are targeted to physician leaders but with universal application in leadership development. The authors explore each of the P's in unequal amounts and raise your awareness of their relevance to physician leadership. Written from experience gained as a physician executive and a business strategist who has worked to understand the essence of the dilemmas and challenges faced by physicians in the transition from the cottage industry of the twentieth-century to today's evolving clinically integrated care delivery environment. The book concludes with a glimpse of additional critical issues that include governance, career management and work-life balance. Becoming a leader and remaining a great leader is a personal journey of self-development. In the physician realm, there are minimal resources directed to their unique circumstances. With a global health care system that is rapidly evolving in the digital age more physician leaders will be required to champion organizational transformation across the global healthcare landscape. An industry level renaissance to support systemic challenges is occurring in healthcare and the need to cultivate leadership essentials has never been more important.