Board, Administration, and Physician Relationships • How does the Board assess physician opinion
• How to create relationships that last
• How the traditional medical staff is becoming obsolete
• Implications of primary care physicians disappearing from the hospital environment
• Emerging relationships between hospital based physicians and healthcare organizations
• Implications of healthcare services progressively moving to ambulatory based environments
• Many subspecialties able to practice outside of the hospital setting
• Sub-specialists resigning from hospital staffs because they are no longer dependent on the hospital as a place to earn income
• Generation X attitudes and how they are transforming hospital-physician relationship
• Generation X attitudes and the implications for physician relationships
• Physicians seeking employment relationship
• What are the implications for traditional medical committees, peer review, credentialing and privileging? How will these functions be performed in the future?
• Changing attitudes related to emergency room call coverage
• The impact of technology on relationships, competition, and changing consumer attitudes
• Discovering where our needs overlap, and how we might relate differently in order to meet those needs.
• How to meet the changing expectation of patients, payers, and regulators
