Physician Workforce
Elisa Arespacochaga, vice president of AHA’s Physician Alliance, examines key competencies today’s health care leaders should look for in the next generation of workers.
The AHA Physician Alliance regularly convenes senior physician executives for high-level conversations on the issues keeping them up at night. AHA Chief Medical Officer Jay Bhatt, D.O., and AHA Physician Alliance Vice President Elisa Arespacochaga share highlights from 2019. Read more
In this AHA Stat Blog, Elisa Arespacochaga, vice president of AHA’s Physician Alliance, discusses how one organization is addressing the root causes of workforce burnout to help busy physicians and other leaders thrive.
As the nation marks National Physician Suicide Awareness Day, the AHA Physician Alliance and Education Development Center hope to spark a conversation that saves lives and advances dialogue on the issue by giving physicians a platform to share their knowledge, stories of recovery and ideas for…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will discontinue the Medicare Advantage Qualifying Payment Arrangement Incentive Demonstration due to low participation, the agency announced last week.
In this AHA Stat Blog, Jay Bhatt, D.O., senior vice president and chief medical officer of the AHA, and Elisa Arespacochaga, vice president of the AHA Physician Alliance, share ideas and resources from the first Leadership Circle session, which covered AI and burnout in the health care industry.
With nearly half of all U.S. physicians experiencing burnout, along with nurses and other care team members, the financial costs to the field are mounting. A recent study in the Annals of Internal Medicine pegged physician burnout costs to the field at between $2.6 billion and $6.3 billion a year…
The AHA today shared with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services a number of actions that the agency could take as part of its calendar year 2020 physician fee schedule proposed rule that would reduce the burden of clinical documentation.
AHA recommends CMS actions to reduce burden of clinical documentation.
There’s no question that hospitals and health systems face a number of challenges. None is more significant that the need to increase the resiliency of our workforce, particularly among physicians, nurses and other clinicians.