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Turning good physicians into strong leaders

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Julius Caesar.

This Medical Economics piece notes that among all the groups in healthcare, physicians are “the most likely candidates to be agents of change” in these transformative times.

So it has convened this round-table discussion of three experts to discuss how good physicians can be turned into strong leaders. The panelists are:

  • Peter B. Angood, M.D., chief executive officer and president of the American Association for Physician Leadership;
  • Maria Chandler, M.D., MBA, founder of the Association of MD-MBA Programs and the University of California, Irvine MD-MBA Program, a practicing pediatrician, and a member of the Medical Economics Editorial Advisory Board; and
  • Robert Juhasz, D.O., immediate past president of the American Osteopathic Association, a board-certified internist affiliated with the Cleveland Clinic, and an associate dean at Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Pilot program to let patients add to doctors’ notes

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Medical Economics reports that five primary-care facilities will try a program that lets patients view and add to their physicians’ visit notes in electronic health records.

A $450,000 grant from the Commonwealth Fund is helping to develop  the OurNotes platform — which extends the OpenNotes program giving patients greater access to their EHR’s.

The places involved in the new program are Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), in Boston, Geisinger Health System, in Danville, Pa., Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Group Health Cooperative, in Seattle, and Mosaic Life Care, in St. Joseph, Mo.

“This is really building for the future. We envision the potential capability of OurNotes to range from allowing patients to, for example, add a list of topics or questions they’d like to cover during an upcoming visit, creating efficiency in that visit, to inviting patient to review and sign off on notes after a visit as way to ensure that patients and clinicians are on the same page,” the  principal investigator, Jan Walker, RN, MBA, of the division of general medicine and primary care at BIDMC and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, told Medical Economics.


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