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Surgical Services: Maximize OR efficiency to improve patient care

Poor scheduling, staffing inefficiencies, misused space-these are just a few of the factors that can prevent your hospital's operating room from delivering efficient, profitable, and high-quality care. Join HealthLeaders Media for this FREE Webcast sponsored by Surgical Information Systems (SIS). During this 90-minute program, three expert presenters will share what has worked for their hospitals and you will gain valuable lessons that will improve your surgical business line.
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Create Your High-Performance, Patient-Centered Emergency Dept

In HealthLeaders Media's unique two-faceted learning tool featuring a multimedia case study and a live event of the featured innovators, learn how Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard teaching affiliate, restructured and significantly improved emergency department flow, communication and outcomes, all without spending extra capital.

Successful Commercial ACOs: Early Adopters Answer Your Questions

Join HealthLeaders Media for 90 minutes of commercial ACO strategy and solutions direct from three top executives from both provider and payer realms. This customizable webcast allows you to pre-submit questions to our speakers to help guide the discussion, and ensure you get the answers your organization needs.

Tackle Physician Turnover Costs, Rev Up Recruitment

Physician turnover can cause millions to walk out your front door. Losing just one physician can mean a $1 million hit to your budget, and most facilities have turnover rates that are much higher. Getting a handle on turnover and understanding the role recruitment plays in the retention process is crucial. Get strategies and techniques to improve your recruiting and reduce your turnover without breaking the bank. Our physician recruitment and retention experts from Indiana University Health and Trinity Mother Frances Health System will give you real examples of how their organizations are driving physician recruitment and retention. Join HealthLeaders Media for a 90-minute webcast and Q&A, featuring Brett Walker, Director of Physician & Provider Recruiting, at Indiana University Health, and J. Gregory Stovall, MD, senior VP of medical affairs for Trinity Mother Frances Health System, offering proven techniques and strategies to address your recruitment and retention challenges.

A Programmatic Approach to Cancer Care

Join host Banner MD Anderson, internationally renowned for its cancer treatment and research, for insights on time-tested and effective programs that integrate patient care, research, education, and prevention. Live on-site at Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center with invited guest UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, join HealthLeaders Media for solutions, interactive Q&A, and lessons learned.

On-Call Compensation: Data-Driven Solutions

The financial, political, and emotional complexities of paying for call coverage can be enough to bring physicians and administrators alike to their knees. By engaging physicians in a data-driven approach to payment, hospitals can develop a workable solution to the call coverage conundrum that is sustainable for the long term. HealthLeaders Media presents a 90-minute webcast, including Q&A, featuring compensation experts from Children's Hospital of Orange County and ECG Management with strategies for affordable, sustainable call compensation.

The Business and Clinical Path to Medical Home

The vision for the patient-centered medical home is to create a guide that supports patients through the healthcare system. To reach that vision involves more than an enhanced version of primary care; it's about binding together the vital links between hospital and physician to deliver best outcomes for the patient.

Raise Revenue, Cut Costs in Your Joint Replacement Service Line

The world of joint replacement surgery is changing as fast as the rest of healthcare. With less-invasive techniques spreading, surgical volume, competition, and costs are on the rise, while compensation is falling. How do you survive in this environment? How do you become more efficient and effective, while meeting surgeon and patient expectations for outcomes? How do you make it all affordable? Listen to this 90-minute webcast with surgeons and service line leaders from Westchester Medical Center and VHA for successful strategies on navigating surgical efficiency and volume, alignment challenges, and competition.

Slash Your Readmission Rates

With 20% of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries discharged from a hospital being readmitted within 30 days, two of the nation’s top healthcare facilities share strategies to help you reduce your readmission rates. With federal penalties on the horizon, readmission rates are about to become even more costly. Join us for a 60-minute audio conference with Baylor Heart and Vascular Center in Dallas, which boasts one of the lowest readmission rates nationwide (17.3%), and Our Lady of Resurrection Medical Center in Chicago, which cut its readmission rate from the nation’s second-highest (32.4%) to 15%.

Cultivating Physician-Hospital Alignment in the ACO Era

The physician-hospital relationship has always been important but with reform, fortifying these partnerships is now an imperative. Integration will be the key to success in the accountable care era, whether your organization develops an official ACO or not. To be successful, hospitals and health systems must develop strong relationships with employed and affiliated physicians.

Transform Your ED into a Profit Center

As the major source of admissions, your ED is poised to be a serious revenue driver, or drain. Get in-the-trenches management tools and techniques to grow your ED’s bottom line. Learn how Heartland Health revamped processes and increased revenue from $15 million to $33.5 million and turned its ED into a profit center.

Beyond Medicare Shared Savings: Effective ACO & Clinical Integration Strategies

Go beyond the ACO regs furor to uncover commercial and Medicare alternatives for your ACO strategy. Taking the time to evaluate your opportunities and position yourself appropriately will pay off for the next generation of clinical integration. Join HealthLeaders Media for this 90-minute Webcast, including Q&A, for a deep dive with leading experts savvy on the legal and business operation of ACOs in commercial markets and CMS programs other than Medicare Shared Savings.

Blueprint for an Integrated and Alignment-Driven Physician Compensation Plan

With the advent of the accountable care organization and reimbursement shifts from pay for performance to bundled payments, physician compensation plans must do more than ensure fair compensation for physicians. Effective compensation plans need to encourage and incentivize quality and foster strong physician alignment for hospitals and health systems to achieve core strategic goals.

Achieving Ambulatory Surgery Center Success in the Reform Era

Join HealthLeaders Media for this 90-minute Webcast, including Q&A, to learn how to increase the financial return of ASC operations from leaders with proven ambulatory care ROI. Reform, reimbursement, and reintegration--a triple threat to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) or new opportunities for ROI? Given the current uncertainty in the wake of healthcare reform, ASCs are facing new pressure for profitability where integration and partnerships have never been more needed.

Under IRS Scrutiny: Ensuring Compliant Hospital-Physician Compensation Plans

Effective governance and strong management are both necessary for the continued viability and competitive positioning of not-for-profit hospitals, especially given the uncertainty around healthcare reform and the changing healthcare environment, says Moody's Investors Service in a recently released report. In an era of greater transparency and financial scrutiny, there can be substantial community fallout and legal penalties (civil and criminal) if hospitals or physicians violate tax or compensation regulations. As hospitals and physician practices continue the trend of merging for survival, hospital-physician integration is of growing interest to the IRS and is increasingly subject to scrutiny from regulators. Additionally, the new Form 990 disclosure requirements related to highly paid officers or employees have created an easily accessible public format for viewing executive compensation. Fortunately, compensation pitfalls can be avoided with a solid governance approach to reviewing. Join HealthLeaders Media for this 60-minute audio conference, including Q&A, to get the analysis and strategies you need for current tax law requirements.

The Power of Primary Care in an Era of Change

The government is pushing for healthcare providers to assume more responsibility for managing the care continuum, which means primary care has never been more important to the system of care. Given the shortage of primary care physicians and the increasingly competitive physician market, you need both proven best-practice strategies and innovative new ideas to recruit, retain, and align your primary care physicians. Join HealthLeaders Media for this 90-minute Webcast, including Q&A, to learn how to develop primary care networks that improve outcomes and care coordination for your community.

Service Line Strategies Workshop: Back and Spine Care

Join HealthLeaders Media for this 90-minute Webcast, including Q&A, to learn from leaders from diverse spine and back care programs: the North Side of Chicago's largest independent teaching hospital and a rural Arkansas hospital with a majority Medicare population. Successful spine and back care service lines require a foundation rooted in market knowledge, organizational commitment, and physician alignment, as well as the fluidity to adapt to ever-changing conditions, including reimbursement changes, technological advances, and a growing patient preference for non-surgical options. Is your back/spine service line as strongly positioned for success as it could be?

Productivity Incentives for Direct Employment Compensation Models

Your direct compensation model is a key tool to help with physician productivity, but it’s not a static model--are you familiar with current trends? Do you know how you’ll adapt your compensation model for coming changes, including ACOs and bundled payments? Moreover, how will you communicate the changes to your physicians? Join HealthLeaders Media for this 60-minute webcast, including Q&A, and learn from leading experts about direct employment models and physician compensation, including insights from the York Hospital CFO. You’ll get real-world understanding of the pitfalls and challenges with compensation models, from design to ongoing maintenance, as well as how to use your model to improve your physician-organization alignment.

Incentivizing Physician Productivity with Benchmarks

What if the way you interpret survey benchmarks resulted in additional compensation of $500,000 for the same productivity? Have you found the balance between your compensation methodology, your market reality and strategic objectives, or are they at odds? Are you able to structure meaningful incentives while considering these factors and industry benchmarks? How do you ensure competitive compensation while maintaining financial viability? Join HealthLeaders Media for this 60-minute webcast, including Q&A, and learn from leading experts about benchmarking and physician compensation. Plus find out how to avoid a common mistake in applying survey data that nearly cost one hospital $500,000 in additional compensation.

More Patients, Less Money, Higher Quality

More patients are coming your way, courtesy of health reform, but reimbursement will still likely lag. Will you take advantage of the opportunity to serve your community better, become more efficient, and gain market share? Now is the time to prepare, and our speakers will lead you through their innovative strategies to meet this rapidly developing need. Join Healthleaders Media for this 90-minute webcast, including Q&A, for proven strategies on meeting your patient demand.

Using Physician Incentives to Align with Organizational Needs

Physician compensation can be a powerful tool to build alignment, accountability, and involvement with both employed and independent physicians. Does your physician compensation model promote your organizational needs and meet the demands of the new healthcare reform era? Join Healthleaders Media for this 90-minute webcast, including Q&A, to learn proven strategies from two physician alignment experts, including an indepth case study. Use your compensation model to position your organization for success in an environment that rewards quality and outcomes, not procedures.

Proven Compensation Strategies for Part-Time Physicians

Part-time employment options are essential for physician retention, recruitment, and alignment. Practice leaders must carefully create part-time compensation plans that support organizational goals, as well as keep physicians satisfied without reducing productivity and hurting the bottom line. Join HealthLeaders Media for this 60-minute webcast, including Q&A, to learn from leading experts about proven compensation models.

Innovative Compensation Models for Non-Employed Physicians

As our healthcare system shifts from transaction based, rewarding production and performance, to value based, focusing on quality, safety, and outcomes, your independent/non-employed physician compensation models must ensure alignment and productivity. Join Healthleaders Media for this 60-minute webcast, including Q&A, to learn proven strategies from two physician compensation experts.

The Next Generation of Physician Recruitment and Retention

Join Healthleaders Media for this 90-minute webcast, including Q&A. Learn from industry leaders what successful physician recruitment and retention looks like in the healthcare reform era. You’ll gain strategies to recruit physicians with an eye to clinical competency to fulfill quality measures. Discover how to navigate your most pressing challenges, such as ensuring ED coverage with today’s pool of emerging physicians who are looking for work-life balance.

Direct Employment Compensation Models

Finding the compensation model that encourages and maintains high levels of physician productivity is a challenge for hospitals and group practices. During this 60-minute webcast, presented by HealthLeaders Media, you will learn proven strategies from two physician compensation experts. This program looks at how to use compensation survey data to benchmark and help you determine which survey is most appropriate for your organization. Find out how to select the compensation model that works for your hospital or practice, as well as how to integrate it with your new recruits and your seasoned staff physicians

Geriatrics Service Lines Strategies

As the aging population grows, healthcare organizations need to prepare for the financial stress this demographic will place on them. Creating a senior-specific service line that coordinates services across the continuum of care improves patients’ access to services, lessens readmission, and decreases the financial impact on the hospital or healthcare system. This 90-minute webcast, including Q&A, looks at strategies for development for your geriatric service line. Our expert speakers from two well-know geriatric programs discuss how to maximize opportunities through physician alignment, care coordination, and an interdisciplinary team approach.

A Better Way Than Pay For Call Coverage

Choosing the call physician compensation model that works best for your hospital is essential to strong hospital-physician alignment, as well as a healthy bottom line. But there are other options than paying physicians directly-and by the hour-for call coverage. This 90-minute webcast, including Q&A, explores benefits of emerging models for call coverage and examine the scenarios under which each option would be the best fit. Our speakers, physician leaders from Scripps Memorial Hospital and Providence Regional Medical Center, discuss the decision-making process—from examining the financial impact their model for call coverage--to factors that may affect which model your hospital or health system chooses—to achieving physician buy-in to ensure a successful implementation.

Cardiovascular Service Lines Strategies

Critical to your hospital's cardiovascular service line success is an assessment of your subspecialty services and analysis of emerging specialties. Our expert panelists tell you how healthcare reform will impact the cardiovascular service lines’ compensation models, quality, and costs. Join HealthLeaders Media and physician experts from Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute, the International Heart Institute of Montana, and VHA for this 90-minute webcast, including Q&A, for this solution-focused discussion of quality, cost, sub-specialization, and physician alignment.

Seamless Systems of Care: Better Alignment, Coordination, and Outcomes

Hear from organizations that are achieving the highest quality and most cost-effective outcomes through innovative systems of care.

Orthopedics Service Lines Strategies

Specialty service lines are critical to your hospital's success with orthopedics topping the list of must-have offerings. Three orthopedic service line experts share trends and strategies to strengthen your position in the market, reduce cost drivers, build brand loyalty, and differentiate your orthopedic services from the competition. Join HealthLeaders Media for this 90-minute webcast, including Q&A, for this solution-focused discussion of growth and development of orthopedic service lines through sub-specialization in four major areas: joint, spine, fracture care, and sports medicine.

Integrated Compensation Plans to Enhance Physician Performance

With the number of physicians seeking employment increasing, healthcare providers are looking for ways to effectively manage their physicians' transitions from independent to institutional compensation models. Join HealthLeaders Media for head of ECG Management Consultants, Inc.'s Midwest Healthcare practice, based in St. Louis, MO. His practice focuses on physician/hospital business relationships, strategy, operations, organizational development, and incentive design. Within ECG's Midwest practice, ECG conducts proprietary research on physician compensation, benefits, and production trends, culminating in the most comprehensive database of available physician standards. ECG is particularly known for specialized expertise regarding hospital and physician relationships, strategic and business planning, information technology, and the complexities of the academic healthcare enterprise.

Neuroscience Service Lines Strategies

This 90-minute program focuses on growth and development in the neuroscience service line through sub-specialization strategies in the major areas of care. Our experienced presenters offer their advice for growth from varying perspectives within each sub-specialty area: technology and finance, positioning and market strategy, physician relations, and real-world experiences.

Joint Replacement Service Lines:

With so much uncertainty about tomorrow's healthcare market, a profitable joint replacement program requires flexible management of the business and closer physician alignment. Learn from HealthLeaders Media and two orthopedic service line experts during this 90-minute discussion--including Q&A--of the key issues surrounding the economics of a joint replacement service line.

Service Lines Strategies Workshop 2009: Stroke Care

Whether you're a comprehensive stroke center or a hospital with a budding stroke service line, success depends on collaboration toward systems of care by building networks, incorporating telestroke, and coordinating on a strategic level.

Finding and Keeping Physicians During a Shortage

Join HealthLeaders Media, healthcare business development, and physician relations experts from the field for a frank, solution-focused discussion of the physician shortage: Who you need to recruit now–with predictions for the future–how to recruit in today's economy, and how to retain your top talent.

RAC Strategy: Preserve Margin, Prevent Take-backs, Promote Alignment

To attack the RACs or any post payment review, you need an integrated strategic plan that enhances alignment, reduces costs, and improves quality. Learn from those who have participated in the demonstration project and succeeded.

Flexible Medical Staff Models of the Future

Learn from HealthLeaders Media's tools to analyze your current staff and culture and to map out future needs, so your organization can take the steps to building a flexible, efficient medical staff model that allows the hospital and physicians to work toward common goals.

Service Lines Strategies Workshop 2009: Gastroenterology

Hear from three gastroenterology service line experts who will give you strategies and models you can begin working with today to get the most out of your GI program by running it more like a top service line.

Service Line Strategies Workshop 2009: Spine Care

With the recession making already-low margins even harder to come by, spine care success increasingly depends on marrying clinical and business intelligence in three interconnected areas: physician alignment, outcome reporting, and cost control. This 90-minute Webcast will drill into strategies for each.

Service Lines Strategies Workshop: Cardiovascular Physician Alignment

Listen to HealthLeaders Media for this solution-focused 90-minute webcast of this proven physician alignment model in the cardiovascular service line. Our speakers developed and founded Allina's Minneapolis Heart Institute, which involved the creation of a hospital-within-a-hospital, managed equally between hospital senior leaders and the physicians who are employed there.

Compensation Packages to Recruit and Retain Physicians in Today's Economy

Recruiting quality physicians has been growing more difficult for years, and the current economic crisis has made the process more complex and competitive than ever. With limited resources, organizations must learn to recruit efficiently while targeting physicians' changing career goals and practice styles. Offering competitive compensation packages and flexible practice structures are essential to your recruitment and retention strategy and will help you bring the best physicians to your organization-and keep them..

Service Lines Strategies Workshop 2009: Joint Replacement

With so many competitors in the fast growing and highly profitable field of joint replacement, you need to set the market standard for both service and quality to differentiate your program from others, increase physician referrals, and grow market share.

Solving Your Nurse Shortage: Long-Term Strategies That Work

During this 90-minute webcast a panel of executives from award-winning hospitals discuss how they are cutting turnover rates, boosting retention, and saving money in the process. The speakers talk about what works, and what lessons they've learned along the way.

ED Overhaul 2009: Five Improvements to Make Today

During this 90-minute Webcast, you'll learn how industry leaders are tackling challenges in the ED despite the tough economic climate.

Service Line Strategies Workshop 2009: Women's Health

Women's health service lines today extend far beyond obstetrics. Women are the number one healthcare decision-makers, responsible for more than 80% of healthcare purchasing decisions. A properly-structured service line that covers the full spectrum of women's health—including cardiovascular, bone, and cancer care—can establish loyalty with existing patients and bring in their friends and families, as well. The result is downstream revenue in nearly every revenue sector and a big boost to the hospital's overall bottom line.

New and Proven Medical Staff Models:

Listen to HealthLeaders Media for this 90-minute webcast New Medical Staff Models: Aligning physicians and hospitals today, where our expert panelists share new original research of the most unique and effective medical staff models for hospital, physician, and community success. You will hear two case studies about hospitals who have created innovative medical staff models, and how their senior executives and physician leaders worked together to dramatically restructure the hospital-physician relationship

Grow Outpatient Revenues Now: 3 Impact Strategies

Get the tools to create—and get buy-in for—a denials prevention team during this audio conference. You'll learn proactive strategies you can implement at your facility to minimize denials and optimize reimbursement.

5 Ways to Hospital-Physician Quality:

Both hospitals and physicians agree on the need for constant quality improvement, but there are barriers: poor communication, misaligned physician incentives, weak infrastructure for quality, and lack of common, transparent goals. During this HealthLeaders Media webcast, you'll hear from two medical directors of quality who have guided their organizations through proven strategies that bring together hospitals and physicians in cohesive plans.

Financial Meltdown: Managing Through The Crisis

The credit markets that have been a drag on Wall Street and the global economy have not spared healthcare. Healthcare organizations that still need to seek capital are finding options are too few and too expensive. In this timely 90-minute, interactive webcast, our experts share their near-term outlook for the credit markets, and some survival strategies to protect your capital structure.

Lessons on Giving Patients Price and Quality Data:

In this 90-minute Webcast you'll hear how Alegent Health's senior leadership team implemented 'My Cost', a web-based tool designed to calculate personally relevant treatment costs based on a number of customer-specific factors. Learn from their journey of success through a three-point consumer strategy that includes concepts and ideas that are adaptable to almost any size organization and budget.

Physician Compensation Planning:

A misaligned physician compensation plan can cause a lot of problems for your practice-low productivity, physician discontent, or difficulty recruiting new doctors. If you're not performing an annual assessment of your income distribution formula, you may miss the early warning signs of trouble. Listen to HealthLeaders Media and two physician compensation experts for this 60-minute audio conference as we explore the evaluation process.

Service Line Strategies Workshop 2008: Cardiovascular

In this 90-minute Webcast, physician experts from Sg2, a leading healthcare intelligence company, and Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute explain how to align with key physicians to develop a profitable cardiovascular program that stands out in the market. This presentation highlights real-world examples and shows how Vanderbilt Medical Center turned around its CV service line to improve market share and receive national recognition.

OR Overhaul: 5 Surgical Site Improvements Every Leader Should Make Today

Even the most advanced hospitals struggle to overcome the OR's inefficiencies that erode profit margins. Listen to HealthLeaders Media for a 90-minute Webcast about the 5 changes you need to implement today to make your OR more profitable tomorrow.

Service Line Strategies Workshop 2008: Neurosciences

Specialty service lines are critical to hospitals' success with neurosciences among the most profitable. Listen to our three expert speakers for this 90-minute webcast, where they discuss the challenges you may face when creating and branding your Neuroscience service line, as well as strategies for success.

Physician Alignment Strategies:

This 90-minute webcast explores the costs and benefits of traditional, emerging, and alternative models for compensating physicians for call coverage and examine the scenarios in which each option would be the best fit.

Supply Chain Success:

During this 90-minute Webcast, explore the tools and strategies hospitals can use to minimize price variations and save money for the hospital or healthcare system, while retaining quality.

Proven Compensation Strategies for Part-time Physicians

Listen to HealthLeaders Media for this 60-minute audioconference and discover how to strike the right balance in your part-time physician compensation plans. Hear from leading experts on proven compensation models as well as ways to use a part-time compensation arrangement as a recruitment and retention strategy.

Preventable Errors:

During this 90 minute Webcast from HealthLeaders Media and Studer Group, learn how to overcome barriers, as well as establish realistic timeframes and goals to prevent errors in three crucial areas: bedsores, injuries from falls and catheter-associated infections.

ED Overhaul: 5 Improvements to make today

Listen to HealthLeaders Media for this must-have Webcast and learn from expert panelists how to overcome the ED's unique challenges. Through this 90-minute Webcast, you'll learn the five improvements all hospital leaders should make to improve their emergency departments.

Retention strategies to keep top physicians

During this 60-minute audioconference, you'll discover retention strategies that you can implement immediately without breaking the bank. Learn why many physicians leave practices and how you can keep them happy.

Posting Quality Data: How your hospital can make transparency work

During this 90-minute webcast, three of your peers will provide strategies and tools to manage the great disclosure debate as well as information on what data really matters, what to do with low scores, and how to explain it all to your customers.

HCAHPS for Marketers: Manage information not crises

Whether you're expecting your organization's scores to be top-notch or have room for improvement, this 90-minute Webcast will show you how preparation and planning now can help you craft appropriate media responses and prevent the release of patient satisfaction scores from turning into a public relations crisis.

Service Line ROI:

During this 60-minute Webcast, learn how to successfully choose the investment that's best for your practice. From conducting a feasibility study to analyzing indirect return on investment, this program will provide you with critical information and tools you need to make the tough decisions and stay competitive

Bringing the Digital Hospital to Life: Expert Advice and Real-world Lessons

Find out what it really takes to become a fully automated, paperless hospital during this webcast presented on January, 24, 2007. You will hear EMR stratgegies from an expert indursty analyst, as well as two case studies from hospitals who are far along in their IT adoption. Learn what challenges to expect, how to overcome them, and how to get buy-in from key staff members.