21st Century Physician
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The 21st Century Physician Project focuses on advancing policies and incentives that accelerate physician adoption of evidence-based medicine and that create an environment where physicians would encourage their children to join the profession. |
The broader objective of this project is to identify the optimal policies and solutions that can transform the practice of medicine to create better health and more choices at lower cost for every American.
The project addresses all aspects of what a 21st Century Intelligent Physician Practice might look like as it relates to electronic health records and other IT solutions, patient safety, consumerism, medical liability, telehealth, transparency, uninsured, labor staffing and retention, community education, homeland security, etc.
One of the ultimate goals is to work collaboratively with physicians to address various policy and system changes that will allow America to attract and retain the best possible physicians, including:
- Reimbursement issues, including a 48-hour turn-around in physician payment;
- Use of 21st century technologies that allow physicians to engage in new, easier and real-time methods of continuing medical education;
- Development of a 21st Century System of Healthy Justice and Patient Safety; Physician ready access to information about cost and quality of various options;
- Greater decision-making power in the hands of the physician-patient partnership, rather than third-party bureaucracies;
- Greater patient responsibility for engaging in healthy behavior and managing their personal decisions in order to increase the likelihood of better health outcomes;
- Turning healthcare into an opportunity rather than a problem.
Key initiatives include:
- Health Justice Transformation;
- Identification and accelerated adoption of 21st century solutions and policies that help modernize and improve physician practices;
- 21st Century Physician Incentives and Reimbursement;
- 21st Century Physician Roundtables and Working Group;
- Hippocratic Oath 2.0
