21st Century Physician
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The 21st Century Physician Project focuses on advancing policies and incentives that accelerate physician adoption of evidence-based medicine and that create an environment where physicians would encourage their children to join the profession. |
The broader objective of this project is to identify the optimal policies and solutions that can transform the practice of medicine to create better health and more choices at lower cost for every American.
The project addresses all aspects of what a 21st Century Intelligent Physician Practice might look like as it relates to electronic health records and other IT solutions, patient safety, consumerism, medical liability, telehealth, transparency, uninsured, labor staffing and retention, community education, homeland security, etc.
One of the ultimate goals is to work collaboratively with physicians to address various policy and system changes that will allow America to attract and retain the best possible physicians, including:
- Reimbursement issues, including a 48-hour turn-around in physician payment;
- Use of 21st century technologies that allow physicians to engage in new, easier and real-time methods of continuing medical education;
- Development of a 21st Century System of Healthy Justice and Patient Safety; Physician ready access to information about cost and quality of various options;
- Greater decision-making power in the hands of the physician-patient partnership, rather than third-party bureaucracies;
- Greater patient responsibility for engaging in healthy behavior and managing their personal decisions in order to increase the likelihood of better health outcomes;
- Turning healthcare into an opportunity rather than a problem.
Key initiatives include:
- Health Justice Transformation;
- Identification and accelerated adoption of 21st century solutions and policies that help modernize and improve physician practices;
- 21st Century Physician Incentives and Reimbursement;
- 21st Century Physician Roundtables and Working Group;
- Hippocratic Oath 2.0
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Topic: 21st Century Phyisian Incentives & Reimbursement.
I would like to have dialogue re incentives. Providers vs. payers is the main event. Payers must incentivize and reward providers that transmit digital records/documents to the payer for reimbursement. On the surface, there is labor cost savings to digitize the transmittion. But only rigorous cost-benefit analysis could provide insight as what savings might be derived from ditizing the transmittion. Incentives are also needed for other digital records transmittion to lab's, radiologist, primary care physician to specialist to medical centers, and so on. Substantial private sector incentives might accomplish several objectives--encouragement to an EHR system, lending institutions ofering package financing, developers of medical office buildings equipping with the latest IP Telephony & telecom transport and telecom providers offering the latest transport technology such as SIP. There are sufficient private sector players in the medical community to establish an incentive program to reward the users of EHR and related technologies. Acquiring the technologies however must be done the old fashion way -- they must earn it, not be given to them in the form of any subsidy. Ray Torres Scottsdale, AZ Posted by: Ray Torres | Jan 29, 2008 5:08:41 PM |
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