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This course offers comprehensive insights into the strategic management of physician engagement to address the evolving challenges of recruitment, retention, growth and communication in contemporary health care environments.

Physician burnout is on the rise. Across the country, doctors’ ability to practice medicine and care for their patients is increasingly  impacted by ongoing government regulations and administrative requirements. As physician burnout increases, patient care and volumes are negatively impacted, which, in turn, affects revenue, reputation, and experience.

In today's competitive health care environment, physician engagement is a top strategy for increasing referrals and market share. As a relatively new regional health system, Trinity Health of New England needed to go beyond mere engagement to align employed and community-based physicians with organizational priorities for a shared mission, clinical integration and revenue growth.

With mounting operational pressures to improve the health of patient populations and survive in value-based care models, health systems need critical data intelligence about the sector’s influencers to more thoroughly understand physician referral networks and achieve their organizational objectives.

Please join us for a one-hour webcast where we will review the highlights of the latest SHSMD Physician Relations Benchmarking Report. This highly anticipated survey, in collaboration with the American Association of Physician Liaisons, provides unique insights into the field from several hundred front-line, managerial, and support participants.

What's your role in working with and communicating to your physicians? Fresh off a recent lively discussion on the topic with the medical staff at University of Iowa (UI) Health Care, here are ten steps you can take to refresh your physician communications.

Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation has developed a Comprehensive Opioid Response with the 12 steps as a solution to treating people with opioid addiction, which engages and activates community resources, providers, physicians, families, and the patient for optimal outcomes. Learn how they engaged physicians as a part of treatment, prevention, and pain management to reduce risk of developing Opioid Use Disorder.

Over the last nine years, we have sent out almost 50,000 separate email campaigns from a wide range of companies that target physicians. From this huge base of experience, we have pulled out six secrets to make your next hospital email campaign be the best performing one ever.

TMCA went from the 50th percentile to Top 10 nationally in terms of physician engagement and alignment, with double digit increases on the satisfaction survey, physician turnover decreased by 5%, with first year physician turnover cut in half, and quality improved with a significant decline in Hospital Acquired Infection. TMCA saw measurable results on decreasing referral leakage, improving referral development, and gaining access for their Physician Relations Manager (PRM) team to meet with key physicians.

This session will uncover what leaders and key stakeholders expect and provide ideas to meet expectations. We’ll provide concepts for ensuring there is good understanding and buy-in for the model, methods and measurement with key internal stakeholders and the leadership.

Three key strategies include implementing a data-driven physician communication campaign spearheaded by the Chief Physician Executive; encouraging physicians to participate in engagement events where they interact with each other and consumers in a meaningful way; and building a platform to allow for actionable feedback.

Hear a national perspective on the implications and drivers of burnout and how organizations are refocusing on purpose to improve health care delivery and support their teams.

The shifting healthcare landscape is requiring hospitals and health system strategists to take aggressive approaches to every aspect of their operations, including how to align physicians with their healthcare network and advertise them to the community. Read more about the key to addressing these challenges.

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As hospitals and health systems increasingly implement physician alignment strategies, physician relations teams must concentrate on ways they can bring value to their organizations in this new environment. This article explores the ways in which physician relations professionals can be more engaged in physician alignment.

The final result of Southcoast Health System's service line planning was a plan with a vision that supported the system's overall primary care strategy and articulated specific initiatives supportable by physicians. This lookback will be relayed by the chair of this effort, who himself is a practicing primary care physician.

This case study will examine how Boston Medical Center implemented an integrated, multichannel marketing campaign to acquire more than 2,000 new primary care patients within one year.