This week's edition of HealthLeaders' The Winning Edge program featured a four-member webinar panel that focused on strategies to improve physician engagement and clinical efficiency.
Physician engagement is essential to drive positive clinical outcomes for patients as well as to achieve physician satisfaction. Clinical efficiency is crucial for healthcare organizations to establish an effective workplace environment and to control costs.
The webinar featured the following 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.
Click on the video below to view the webinar session. Click here to read a HealthLeaders story that highlights some of the key takeaways from the webinar.
This webinar was sponsored by QGenda.
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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.
CMOs and other clinical leaders should be intentional in engaging physicians about strategy decisions and technology adoption. For example, physicians should be queried about their pain points and should be consulted when potential solutions are identified.