Whitepapers

The demand for Advanced Practice Clinicians or Advanced Practice Providers such as Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, and Certified Professional Midwives in hospitals and health systems has grown exponentially over the past decade. With the rapid transformation of healthcare and the increased emphasis on the entire healthcare continuum, APCs are filling gaps and providing quality, patient-centered medical care. The enormous importance of these practitioners to the healthcare industry cannot be overlooked.

Download this eBook for methods on how to:

• Simplify and standardize communication — across all care settings
• Leverage the investment in the EMR
• Enhance efforts to increase physician satisfaction and engagement
• Facilitate more efficient care coordination to ease and expedite patient transitions
• Improve clinical integration efforts; physician alignment
• Reduce patient care delays and support initiatives to increase throughput
• Enable a more comprehensive HIPAA-compliance strategy to reduce compliance risk

Written by Susan O'Hare, Managing Director & Senior Advisor, and Aurora Young, Principal Consultant of Integrated Healthcare Strategies

Today’s patients, payers and regulators expect healthcare providers to deliver the highest quality care in a cost-effective and timely manner. To support quality improvement efforts in the field of radiology, professional associations and credentialing bodies such as the American College of Radiology and the American Board of Radiology, respectively, have drawn up a number of clinical guidelines, revised technical standards and have established new certification criteria. To date, however, there is no established set of standard best practices that hospitals can use to gauge the quality of their radiology services. Without such standards, it is nearly impossible for hospitals to pinpoint the strengths and weakness of their radiology service, set clinical relevant performance targets and track the progress of quality improvement efforts.

Based on extensive research of industry benchmarks and standards, this eBook outlines ten best practices in radiology across three broad categories encompassing practice quality: expertise, communication and leadership.