title: Back to school at Cleveland Clinic. Interview by Carolyn Dunbar.
abstract: When the new chief executive officer at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation decided to decentralize an overburdened administrative structure, he sent clinical department heads and administrators back to school for intensive practice management education. The training for physicians and administrators included much more than a passing acquaintance with information systems.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bailin
mesh_terms: D001292:Attitude to Computers; D002497:Centralized Hospital Services; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D004496:Education, Continuing; D006740:Hospital Administrators / Q000193:education*; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006770:Hospitals, Group Practice / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009820:Ohio; D008486:Physician Executives / Q000193:education*