Innovative Physician Visit Models: How to Rewrite the Appointment Book
For physician groups facing the dual challenges of improving their practices’ financial health and enhancing the patient experience, it may be time to reshuffle traditional appointment scheduling methods. Representatives of physician groups already testing new patient visit models will share the benefits and risks of these initiatives during Implementing Innovative Visit Models Into Physician Practices, a live interactive audio conference on March 1, 2006 at 1:30 p. m. Eastern time. Sponsored by the Healthcare Intelligence Network (HIN), the 90-minute audio conference will describe how innovative visit models can help physician organizations improve outcomes and reduce practice costs without sacrificing the high standard of care that patients have come to expect.
Manasquan, NJ (PRWEB) January 24, 2006
For physician groups facing the dual challenges of improving their practices’ financial health and enhancing the patient experience, it may be time to reshuffle traditional appointment scheduling methods. As Dr. Paul Wallace, co-director of Kaiser-Permanente’s Care Management Institute told 2005 Disease Management Congress attendees, “physicians need to stop counting daily patient 15-minute visits” and devise new opportunities to touch patients. Patient contact via group visits, house calls, open access and targeted mailed, telephonic and electronic communications provide alternatives to traditional patient scheduling without compromising care, he said.
Representatives of physician groups already testing new patient visit models will share the benefits and risks of these initiatives during Implementing Innovative Visit Models Into Physician Practices, a live interactive audio conference on March 1, 2006 at 1:30 p. m. Eastern time. Sponsored by the Healthcare Intelligence Network (HIN), the 90-minute audio conference will describe how innovative visit models can help physician organizations improve outcomes and reduce practice costs without sacrificing the high standard of care that patients have come to expect. For more information, please visit http://www. hin. com/cgi-local/link/news/pl. cgi? visitspr (http://www. hin. com/cgi-local/link/news/pl. cgi? visitspr).
During this 90-minute audio conference, Sue Houck, president and CEO, Houck Associates, and Dr. Joseph Spooner, senior vice president of outcomes, Care Level Management, will present innovative visit models in use at their organizations. Houck will describe how physician practices are using group visits to achieve efficiencies, pare costs and improve care, while Dr. Spooner will detail the Care Level Management group practice model utilizing physicians that only make house calls. During the last 30 minutes of the audio conference, these speakers will open the floor for debate.
“The traditional patient scheduling process often creates backlogs and frustration, which can worsen health outcomes as care is delayed and business is lost,” says Melanie Matthews, HIN executive vice president and chief operating officer. “With careful planning, physician groups can implement non-conventional means of making patient contact without impacting cost or patient care levels.”
The March 1, 2006 audio conference has been designed to benefit executives and leadership physicians of physician hospital organizations and independent practice associations, medical group management executives, physician practice management company executives, large physician groups, management service organizations executives, CEOs, COOs, CFOs, medical directors, network development directors, provider relation executives, controllers, contract administrators, contract officers, physician practice office managers, managed care directors, business development executives, consultants and strategic planners.
An on-demand rebroadcast of the audio conference can be accessed beginning March 3, 2006, and a CD-ROM recording with printed transcript will be available in mid-March. For registration information and details on audio conference formats, please visit: http://www. hin. com/cgi-local/link/news/pl. cgi? visitstpr (http://www. hin. com/cgi-local/link/news/pl. cgi? visitstpr).
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