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Delays in the emergency department can be more than inconvenient – they can be deadly. Care gaps most often arise from emergency department overcrowding, which can be exacerbated by outdated physician communication technology and processes. The Impact of ED Overcrowding in Care Gaps Researchers have studied the efficacy of “offload zones” in managing the delays […]

Whether your hospital employs physicians to supply specialty on-call coverage or contracts with group practices, fair market value of the services provided is the cornerstone of effective contract negotiations. Fair market value determinations also keep hospitals in compliance with federal regulations. As such, hospitals need to define FMV consistently across physician contracts, determine FMV benchmarks […]

Do you know where your Emergency Department’s physician on-call schedules are? If you were to conduct a round-up this very minute, chances are good that they’d arrive from far and wide. One might hop off of the bulletin board in the doctor’s lounge. Another might unstick itself from the wall of the nurses’ station. Several […]

While the goals are simple – better patient outcomes and lower costs – hospital healthcare delivery has never been more complex. Regulation-driven reimbursement models mean more committees, more key performance indicators, and more stakeholders. Before long, this “mantra of more” permeates organizational culture. But more isn’t always better – especially when it comes to physician […]

When was the last time your cat willingly hopped into its carrier for a trip to the vet or stopped scratching the corner of the couch in response to your polite request? Biologists point to the historical symbiotic relationship between cats and humans to explain feline independence – and why herding cats is next to […]

A hospital’s emergency department is on the front line of acute care, and emergency department crowding is itself an emergency. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are close to 137 million emergency department visits per year in the U.S. Of those patients, more than 12 million are admitted to hospitals and […]