Physician/Hospital Partnership Strategies

The healthcare industry is a model of ever-changing dynamics.  Successful organizations will be those that work together to adapt and evolve to achieve success. Physician/Hospital partnership strategies continue to be a major strategy for many health systems to address physician needs for alternative revenue sources and assists hospitals in achieving greater alignment with providers.

 

There are many alternatives for physician practices to partner with local and regional hospitals. These partnerships can enhance the competitive position of the physician/group practice with the hospital, forge stronger alliances, align incentives, improve patient care, and provide economic benefit.

 

In order to optimize the relationship between a hospital and physicians, HealthCore MSO serves as an independent third-party aggregator who can establish the level of trust that is essential in order for hospitals and physicians to collaborate successfully.

 

HealthCore MSO's approach is specifically designed to strategically position hospitals and physicians to thrive in today's financially challenging, regulated, and competitive environment through:

• Regional Health Information Organizations

• Develop Physician/Hospital Equity Model MSO's

• Progressive Strategic Solutions

 

Regional Health Information Organizations

 

"With everything out there, all those programs and accessories and applications, what's important is to find a way to connect fragmented software pieces rather than simply finding the next piece of software." Quotation by Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's Chief Software Architect.

What set's HealthCore MSO's Health Information Technology solution apart from the hundreds of others.

• Interface - Ability to connect disparate data sources of patient data in a Regional Health Information Organization. Web-based technology enables us to quickly and easily create automatic interfaces with any hospital, laboratory, radiology, pathology, transcriptionists, practice management and EMR vendors. HealthCore MSO can simplify and make sharing data affordable by using a single, professionally managed interface.

• Community EMR - concentrates on building connected healthcare communities. With a long-term commitment to developing partnerships with the local healthcare organizations that are important to physician offices, we connect the entire healthcare community, so that everyone involved in a patient's care can share and act on information.

• Web-based EMR - An online solution giving physicians and their staff the most easy-to-use product on the market. Physicians and staff can easily and quickly access their EMR from anywhere, anytime. There is no software to load and keep current or IS support needed to install or maintain the EMR.

• Physician-focused flexibility - An EMR which was built with the realities of the physician office in mind. The most flexible product on the market, allowing physicians to work the way they want to work - by speaking, writing or typing information that is automatically translated into electronic form and added to the medical record.

• Concentrated expertise - Concentrate all of our energy and expertise on an unparalleled EMR, which integrates seamlessly with a clinic's existing practice management system.

 

Advantages for Hospital CIO:

• Significantly reduce interface development and maintenance costs

• Improve both In-patient and Out-patient care

• Increase adoption of electronic data sharing among physicians

• Preserve and/or expand facility revenue

 

MSO

 

An MSO can be the vehicle for a hospital to provide capital and expertise to sponsor a business which allows for physician equity positions, while building trust and providing continued physician autonomy. HealthCore MSO can foster a collaborative process which affords the Hospital and Physicians a business model to develop management services.

 

The purpose of the MSO is to provide support to physicians in the form of information technology, billing and collections, practice operations, supplies and equipment, and managed care contracting.

 

HealthCore MSO can accelerate the provision of these services by acting as a Virtual back-office for all of the services the MSO requires.

 

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