title: Clinical reengineering. Integrating medical and operational management.
abstract: In the continuing push for cost containment in health care, many organizations have turned to cost reduction methods that fundamentally change the way care is delivered. As health care organizations continue to make financially-driven staffing changes that impact patient care, medical leadership must take on greater responsibility for operational management. Physician executives are uniquely qualified to take on leadership roles in work redesign, and must do so to ensure excellent and fiscally-responsible patient care. This article presents a proven methodology for work redesign that helps physician executives apply their clinical skills to operational management in designing new health care delivery models.
authors.affiliation: E.C. Murphy, Ltd., USA.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Pepicello
authors.forename: E C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Murphy
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006302:Health Services Research; D006754:Hospital Restructuring / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D008486:Physician Executives; D011590:Psychology, Industrial; D014481:United States