Articles - Administrative Medicine
ABPS Acknowledges Contributions of MSPs to Healthcare Leadership in America
For many of us here in the United States, a hospital visit comes with the expectation that we’ll receive appropriate medical care from qualified professionals. While some aspects of the American health care system continue to be debated – drug and insurance costs, for example – the high quality of our medical care is generally beyond dispute. Excellence doesn’t reveal ...
Healthcare is Changing. Christopher Kodama, MD, on How ABAM Certification Helps Physicians Take Charge!
Healthcare is transforming at an unprecedented rate, in no small part due to growing interest from patients who are incurring the impacts of rising healthcare costs, despite less than ideal clinical outcomes. We are at an inflection point and need leaders who are able to integrate the pragmatic realities of medical evidence and clinical-care models, as well as understand how ...
Did You Know the ABPS Offers Board Certification for Physician Leaders with Training and Experience in Administrative Medicine?
For more than half a century, the American Board of Physician Specialties (ABPS) has offered only the highest standards in physician board certification. As committed as we are to preparing physicians to meet the evolving health care needs of the public, we also understand that medicine is a business. The industry’s transformation in recent years from a cottage industry to ...
What MSPs Need to Know about ABPS Physician Board Certification Options
The American Board of Physician Specialties® (ABPS) maintains that medical organizations across the United States would be well-served if their bylaws recognized the highly qualified and dedicated physicians certified through the ABPS. The ABPS certified its first physician in 1960, and since then has certified numerous skilled practitioners in a range of medical fields, from traditional specialties such as internal ...
Health Care Leaders Are Positioned to Affect Industry Change
In the fast-changing technology industry, the theory of innovative disruption is well-known and enthusiastically embraced. This theory describes the process by which a product or service is designed for a new set of customers as a low-cost alternative for simple applications, eventually leading to the displacement of the more costly products or services by the low-cost alternative. As the healthcare ...
Medical Staff Leaders: ABPS Options Lead to Improved Health Care
At the American Board of Physician Specialties®, we believe that increasing the number of options for board certification benefits physicians and hospitals, as well as the patients they serve. To that end, we work to give qualified professionals several choices when researching certification boards. Our strict eligibility requirements ensure that only the most dedicated doctors even qualify to attempt certification ...
Physician Leaders Will Shape the Future of Medicine
In a very real sense, all physicians are leaders. When we consider the years of training that physicians are required to complete, along with their confidence in making critical decisions in life or death situations, and their commitment to the teamwork in the clinical setting, we can appreciate how their roles demand daily demonstrations of leadership skills. Through their knowledge ...
How to Spot a Promising Physician Leader
Rising healthcare costs, an aging population, and the rapid advancement of medical knowledge have resulted in an increasingly complex healthcare industry. It’s no wonder that more organizations than ever are turning to leaders who are not only skilled in patient care but are also experts in the business side of medicine. Doctors sit in senior executive positions at many prestigious ...
The Emergence of the Physician Leader
What do the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, the Geisinger Health System, and Partners HealthCare have in common? Yes, they are all well-known and highly prestigious healthcare organizations that provide cutting-edge medical care to millions of patients every year. What you may not know, however, is that each of these institutions is led by actual physicians. Though traditionally not thought ...
Why Doctors Go to Business School
In recent years, the healthcare delivery model in North America has fundamentally changed. As physicians have become more specialized and centralized, there has been a stronger emphasis than ever before placed on the “business side” of medicine. Increasing operational efficiency has become a top priority for healthcare organizations interested in not only improving the quality of patient care but also ...