Integration is critical for medical groups to unlock the benefits of scale. Dive into four key strategic goals of integration — group cohesion, care transformation, visibility, and cost savings — and learn how to prioritize them to ensure a smooth and impactful integration process.

Successful medical group integration requires a strategic approach that prioritizes both workflow and culture. Understand the four key goals for integration and the 15 necessary operational components, and get case studies to see how integration strategies are implemented in practice.

Ensure the success of your integration efforts with these proven change management best practices.

Our 2024 Strategy Summit is designed for provider organizations that are not only looking at today’s problems, but also tomorrow’s solutions — as well as partner organizations across the industry that want to understand where provider organizations are heading.

Learn the one critical mistake many organizations make when designing and implementing protocols — and how you can avoid it.

Learn the one critical mistake many organizations make when designing and implementing protocols — and how you can avoid it.

Get supporting tools and resources from our "The 80/20 of Care Variation Reduction" presentation at the 2018 Physician Executive Council National Meeting.

We've outlined six tactics you need to create care standards that proactively account for workflow considerations and are actionable at the front line.

To build a care team model that’s sustainable for the future, organizations need to design an ambulatory care team that maximizes the ROI and reduces the burnout of every team member—not just physicians. This requires a shift in mindset from seeing the care team as individual roles to viewing it holistically: looking at how individual care team members come together to work as a single cohesive unit.

Redesigning the care team often involves significant change to the care team’s day-to-day. Use the tools below to get your care team invested in the redesign process early on, ease the transition to a new workflow, and promote ongoing communication between the frontlines and leadership.

The care team task allocation guide covers 8 roles and includes over 60 tasks with Advisory Board’s recommendations to optimize role design. This spreadsheet will help users identify opportunities to reallocate tasks in order to get more value from their care teams.

Make sure high-priority messages cut through the noise with a physician-specific communication strategy that reaches physicians across the care continuum.

An effective change announcement is important to ensure buy-in from your staff. Poorly crafted messages can cause confusion and lack of investment from staff. This conversation guide provides five steps to help you craft a successful announcement and get the buy-in you need.

Learn four targeted engagement strategies to build greater stakeholder affinity for your system.

Read this report to learn how inefficiency in the EMR causes physician burnout, to get steps to optimize the EMR for greater practice and physician efficiency, and to learn when and how to deploy cost-conscious physician documentation support.

Learn about eight common mistakes you need to avoid to ensure EMR benefits realisation at your organisation.

In order to effectively design, build, and operate an electronic medical record (EMR), users and IT staff must identify thousands of technical requirements and process changes. Get a sample tool you can use when deciding between two emergency department (ED) information system options.

To build a care team design model that’s sustainable for the future, organizations must redesign the ambulatory care team holistically, redefining the roles of all team members at once.

Redesigning the care team is a top priority for almost every medical group executive. But most organizations overlook the role that front desk staff can play in getting the rest of the team to top-of-license. Read on to learn how medical groups, like The Polyclinic, are redefining the care team to begin at the front desk.

The Care Team Task Allocation Guide covers 8 roles and includes over 60 tasks with Advisory Board’s recommendations to optimize role design. This spreadsheet will help users identify opportunities to reallocate tasks in order to get more value from their care teams.

Learn six elements of a physician group board that serves group-wide interests, focuses on governance rather than management, and efficiently executes its role.

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As the role of the employed medical group continues to grow, leaders must take steps to make sure their leadership structure doesn’t become a blind spot. This report outlines three characteristics of organizational structures at high-performing medical groups that align the goals of governance and management to execute group strategy.

Ballad Health, formed by the merger of two competing health systems, developed a physician governance model to tackle the challenges of integration. Learn how this model increased transparency, improved physician well-being, and helped the organization overcome cultural integration barriers.

This set of resources will help you select the right metrics for your HR dashboard so you can focus your teams’ energy where you need it most.

Use these three resources to help your team build a strategic plan that shows how your department's goals are directly advancing broader organizational goals.

13 tools to equip HR to quickly and efficiently build the infrastructure for a strong new hire onboarding program.

Here we offer a collection of resources to help you better understand the digital health ecosystem, and steps you can take today to get started on your path toward building the health system of the future.

Download our ready-to-use slides to get best practices on establishing IT workforce culture and engagement.

Learn how Providence created a centralized innovation model and an intentional digital strategy to identify and solve problems.

Learn best practices for developing a more centralized and strategically aligned physician compensation model.

A new trend is emerging: paying physicians a guaranteed salary. This report examines that trend, profiles organizations that have moved to a salary-based model, and addresses key questions about the longer-term future of physician compensation.

Learn five best practices in physician and APP compensation redesign.

Download our physician onboarding toolkit to better equip your organization to build a strong physician onboarding program to reduce physician turnover and increase engagement.

Six tools — including templates, checklists, and discussion guides — to help managers efficiently and effectively onboard new employees.

Learn how one organization drives early success and retains new physicians with a mentorship program that helps them communicate effectively with patients.

We recently spoke with leaders from University of Chicago Medicine to learn how they created a flexible performance management process that’s doable for both health care leaders and staff.

Download this report for four practical strategies that will help HR leaders reduce the time managers spend on the annual review—so managers can spend more time coaching staff throughout the year.

Reduce bias in employee evaluations to ensure fair and objective scoring with this tool that includes reflection questions, sample survey items, and more.

Tackling quality issues in healthcare requires a collective effort from all sectors. Access this cheat sheet to learn about how quality is defined, what role each sector plays in quality improvement, how financial incentives impact strategy, and what would it take to better align and incentivize quality improvement across the industry.

Every provider organization strives to deliver the best possible care at the right time and in the right place. But many health system leaders struggle to determine where to prioritize limited resources in the face of competing strategic priorities. Use this self-assessment to identify where your organization sits on the spectrum of “baseline” to “next generation” across four domains: organizational commitment, goal setting and metric selection, assessment and accountability, and implementation.

Our analysis goes beyond surface-level data on quality to uncover the specific areas that are struggling — and why. Find out which clinical focus areas are most urgent and get valuable next steps to address these challenges head-on.

Quality improvement is a top priority for healthcare organizations, but many struggle to make significant progress due to four underlying problems. From aligning quality goals to addressing workforce shortages and increased care complexity, get practical strategies to tackle each challenge and enhance care quality and patient outcomes.

Use this report and its accompanying tools to identify and operationalize your top opportunities to reduce referral leakage.

Penn centralized its fragmented referral process by creating a single channel for intaking and triaging internal physicians’ referrals: the multidisciplinary spine access team. The team worked with Penn’s physicians and advanced practice providers to design its protocols, securing their buy-in for the new system.

Download our toolkit to learn how you can use physician expertise as the foundation for your referral advice and for improving care quality.

Centralized appointment scheduling can help medical groups improve patient access and accomplish financial goals. Get 10 steps to succeed in the transition to centralized scheduling.

This case study details how Glacier Bay Clinic, a large hospital employed medical group, standardized schedules across their primary care practices.

Aurora Health Care outlined a scheduling template with a set number of visits per hour, with a protected administrative period at the end of each 60 minutes. This “scheduling wheel” offers Aurora’s physicians a predictable, standardized workflow with flexibility to account for miscellaneous tasks and patient visits that may run over time.

Choosing the right external vendor or partner is crucial for hospitals looking to outsource. This resource presents insights to guide leaders looking for ideal vendor or partner relationships. Discover the five different types of non-clinical vendors and partners, and explore real-world examples that highlight their benefits.

This report will illuminate technology vendors’ dynamics and behaviors to health systems in an honest and impartial manner. With a firm understanding of how technology vendors “think” and what they are trying to optimize for in their partnerships, hospitals and health systems will be better positioned to anticipate hurdles, identify red flags in the sales process, avoid pitfalls during implementation and launch, and reduce the likelihood of wasted time, energy, and money.

To better understand the dynamics and drivers of health systems and their tech vendor partners, we interviewed 25 executives. We compiled a list of the best quotes from those conversations. Read on to discover each stakeholder's "hottest takes" on what they wish their counterpart better understood.