Sharing strategies for boosting clinical efficiency was a central theme for this week's edition of The Winning Edge, which is a healthcare provider-focused HealthLeaders program.
Clinical efficiency is crucial for healthcare organizations to establish an effective workplace environment and to control costs.
This week's webinar for HealthLeaders' The Winning Edge series was centered on the topics of improving physician engagement and clinical efficiency. The webinar featured a four-member panel of experts: Ruric "Andy" Anderson, MD, MBA, chief medical and quality officer at RWJBarnabas Health; Thomas Balcezak, MD, MPH, chief clinical officer at Yale New Haven Health; Patrick Hunt, MD, CMO at QGenda and CMO of acute care at Prisma Health; and Ghazala Sharieff, MD, MBA, corporate executive vice president and chief medical and operations officer for acute care at Scripps Health.
View the infographic below to get four tips on how to improve clinical efficiency. Click here to read the accompanying HealthLeaders story on key takeaways from the webinar.
The webinar was sponsored by QGenda.
The Winning Edge series is an extension of the HealthLeaders Exchange program. The HealthLeaders Exchange is an exclusive, executive community for sharing ideas, solutions, and insights.
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Christopher Cheney is the CMO editor at HealthLeaders.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Physicians and the choices they make have a pivotal impact on efficiency and costs.
One strategy to boost clinical efficiency is to improve patient throughput in the hospital setting by making sure physicians are working effectively with other clinical care team members such as nurses and technicians.