title: Data collection and utilization: bringing physicians on board.
abstract: Healthcare financial managers can encourage the physicians in their organizations to help collect and utilize clinical and performance data in four ways. The data should be used to develop individual physicians' practice preferences by emphasizing patient outcomes. Modified treatment recommendations or protocols that rely on the performance data should be introduced as improvements to be adopted just as the physicians would alter practice behavior based on data published in medical journals. Physician advice and direction should be solicited about how to collect data and how best to use those data within the organization. Finally, physicians should be included in any financial benefits that result from successful data utilization.
authors.affiliation: UCLA Medical Center, USA.
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Krieger
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D003625:Data Collection; D005376:Financial Management / Q000379:methods*; D006123:Group Practice / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States; D014600:Utilization Review / Q000706:statistics & numerical data