New Directions in Disease Management: Solutions to Overcoming Physician Resistance
AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE, CD OR AUDIO ARCHIVE
Sponsored by Disease Management News
presented on August 28, 2007
Physician involvement can make or break a disease management program
Everything can be in place. You can offer health-risk assessments, incentives for patients to undergo physical examination, and provide remote call-center-based triage. And yet it will not be as effective as it could be if you cannot get primary care physicians to buy in to the merits of your program. Doctors can see a disease management program as an intrusion on their turf and provide more of an obstacle to your services than a conduit.
Don’t let this happen.
Listen to HCPro for this 60-minute audioconference where you will learn how to effectively overcome physician resistance to your program. You will discover innovative ideas and solutions which you can then take back and apply to your own program. Three healthcare management experts will present their practical experiences and share successful strategies for teaming with doctors to make disease management a partner in primary care.
- Achieve positive results for patients and physicians through effective disease management
- Implement successful strategies and effective approaches to overcoming physician resistance
- Illustrate that quality of care can be improved through disease management techniques
- Develop mechanisms to encourage stakeholders’ participation in disease management program design
AGENDA
- Developing Care Management as part of a Pay for Performance Program
- How the programs interact
- Gaining provider input and physician participation
- Structure of the program
- Lessons Learned
- Importance of outcomes in swaying physicians
- Achieving clinician buy-in
- Health and Wellness initiatives
- Leveraging technology
- Communicating outcomes to physicians
- Experiences with Medicare Health Support Program
- Launching a care management program/Establishing a medical home
- Overcoming skepticism towards concepts of care management and disease management
- Involving national and state physician organizations
- Q&A
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Sandeep Wadhwa, MD, MBA, Vice President, Care Management Services. Dr. Wadhwa is responsible for the strategic direction and profitability of all care management service offerings while leading marketing, product management, quality, regulatory and research teams. His research interests center on chronic disease prevention and healthcare economics, with findings frequently published in research journals. Dr. Wadhwa has previous experience in healthcare policy, working for the White House and the U.S. Congress.
Jim Ehlen, MD, CEO, Halleland Health Consulting. Dr. Ehlen currently serves as chair of Halleland Health Consulting, focusing on several areas of leverage: health and wellness, improving governance in health care organizations, and assisting early stage organizations to move forward successfully. He focuses especially on organizations that provide impact technologies which assist the health care consumer or provider to make better decisions in a changing health care system.
David Kelley, MD, CMO, Office of Medical Assistance, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare Office. Dr. Kelley oversees the clinical and quality aspects of the Medical Assistance Program that provides health benefits to over 1.7 million recipients. His previous work includes working for Aetna Health Inc. as the Medical Director responsible for utilization and quality management. Dr. Kelley chaired Aetna 's Mid-Atlantic Regional Quality Advisory Committee. Prior to his work for Aetna, he served as Assistant Professor and Director of Clinical Quality Improvement at Penn State University.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
Disease management program managers in:
- Health plans
- Health systems
- Large medical groups/IPAs
- Disease management companies
As well as consultants and medical directors
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