Journal article
Good Neighbors: Shared Challenges and Solutions Toward Increasing Value at Academic Medical Centers and Universities
Academic medicine, Vol.90(12), pp.1607-1610
12/01/2015
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000857
PMID: 26266460
Abstract
Academic medical centers (AMCs) and universities are experiencing increasing pressure to enhance the value they offer at the same time that they are facing challenges related to outcomes, controlling costs, new competition, and government mandates. Yet, rarely do the leaders of these academic neighbors work cooperatively to enhance value. In this Perspective the author, a former university regional campus president with duties in an AMC as an academic physician, shares his insights into the shared challenges these academic neighbors face in improving the value of their services in complex environments. He describes the successes some AMCs have had in generating revenues from new clinical programs that reduce the overall cost of care for larger populations. He also describes how several universities have taken a comprehensive approach to reduce overhead and administrative costs. The author identifies six themes related to successful value improvement efforts and provides examples of successful strategies used by AMCs and their university neighbors to improve the overall value of their programs. He concludes by encouraging leaders of AMCs and universities to share information about their successes in value improvements with each other, to seek additional joint value enhancement efforts, and to market their value improvements to the public.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Good Neighbors: Shared Challenges and Solutions Toward Increasing Value at Academic Medical Centers and Universities
- Creators
- Gerard P. Clancy - University of Tulsa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Academic medicine, Vol.90(12), pp.1607-1610
- DOI
- 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000857
- PMID
- 26266460
- NLM abbreviation
- Acad Med
- ISSN
- 1040-2446
- eISSN
- 1938-808X
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Number of pages
- 4
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/2015
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Emergency Medicine; Medicine Administration
- Record Identifier
- 9984280876202771
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