Connect The Docs; Study shows IT issues could create common ground for physicians and hospitals.

Modern Healthcare, February, 2004 by Versel, Neil

Byline: Neil Versel

In recent years, growing competition from physician owners of ambulatory surgery centers and surgical hospitals has irked more than a few acute-care hospital physician executives and lay administrators.

Physician frustrations with hospital operations, exacerbated by recent rounds of hospital retaliations in the form of economic credentialing and legal actions against fellow doctors, have set many physician group leaders on edge. Leaders of goodwill on both sides of the hospital-physician divide often talk about improving relationships and aligning interests between the two camps. But how?

Physicians and hospitals are under tremendous pressure to improve and connect their clinical and business-side information technologies,...

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