Description:
Collaboration with physicians in best-practice hospital case management departments is critical to optimal outcomes. Two physician groups probably impact hospital case management processes and outcomes more than any other groups of physicians. Those two groups are physician advisors and high-volume physician admitters. The high-volume physician admitter group in many hospitals includes hospitalists. This webinar will focus on those two groups and the value they offer to a successful case management department. The hospital physician advisor can be a varied role. These physicians, while working with the case management department, may also have responsibility for interfacing with clinical decision integrity (CDI) program and quality initiatives.
Session Highlights:
- Discussion of physician impact on case management outcomes
- Hospitalists
- Review of hospitalist role
- Examine critical strategies for collaborating with hospitalists
- Multidisciplinary team process for hospitalists, RN case managers and social workers
- Best practices for auditing hospitalist and case management collaboration
- Hospitalist dashboard
- Physician Advisor
- Review of the physician advisor role
- Examine critical strategies for collaborating with both internal and external physician advisors
- Best practices for auditing physician advisor activities
- Review the role of the physician advisor and the Utilization Review Committee
Why Should You Attend?
Attendees will understand the roles of the hospitalist and physician advisor and their collaboration responsibility with the case management department—RN case managers, social workers, and leadership. RN case managers, social workers, and case management leaders should understand the roles of these physicians, steps to ensure collaboration, to ensure compliance with federal regulations, decreasing length of stay, and methods to improve case management outcomes with the effective integration of these two roles.
This webinar will focus on methods to ensure best-practice strategies for aligning the case management department with hospitalist and physician advisor practices and roles.
- Understand the roles of physician advisors and hospitalists in relation to a hospital case management department.
- Discuss the best strategies for effective case management collaboration with physician advisors and hospitalists.
- Identify best-practice for developing a hospitalist dashboard.
- Identify best-practice for auditing effective physician advisor impact.
Who Should Attend?
Directors of Case Management, RN Case Managers, Directors of Social Work, Social Workers, Hospitalists and Hospitalist Leaders, Physician Advisors, Directors of Nursing, Chief Medical Officers, Senior Leaders of Hospitalists, Senior Leaders of Case Management Departments.