What Open Source MD and Its Partners Do For You

From its inception, Open Source MD was designed to build enduring relationships between physicians and hospitals. We are not a typical hospital staffing agency that adds complication and costs to your operation while delivering little value in return, aside from a bit of convenience. 

Open Source MD goes well beyond simply satisfying your hospital staffing needs. Our mission is to build a high-performance hospitalist service that delivers a higher quality of care, better physician morale, and meaningful improvements to hospital revenue. 

What an Open Source MD Hospitalist Service can do:

  • Provide a higher quality of patient care.
  • Result in higher patient satisfaction scores.
  • Reduce physician turnover and enhance morale
  • Improve inter and intra-departmental communication.
  • Help produce high-quality physician documentation which reduces denials. 
  • Boost hospital profitability through sustainable and scalable process improvements. 

Is Your Hospitalist Service Operating at Peak Performance?

Hospital CEOs, administrators, and Chiefs of Staff are well aware of how important the hospitalist service is to the functioning of the hospital. What many of them are not aware of is how to optimize the team of physicians that are so important to the hospital’s performance across the board.

There is no hospital performance metric that is not affected by the quality of your hospitalist service. When we say quality, we are not referring simply to the experience and credentials of individual physicians. Instead, we are referring to the quality of the service as a whole. You may have a number of superb hospitalists in place and still have a hospitalist service entity that isn’t living up to its potential or delivering the results you want to see. 

The Problem:

  • Poor communication within clinical staff and with administration and patients. 
  • Insufficient/incomplete clinical documentation which results in denials and lower quality of care.  
  • Attrition due to low morale among hospitalists, specialists, and other clinical staff. 
  • Inefficient scheduling leads to excessive uncoordinated hospitalist handover of patients and impacts the quality of care. 

How Do I Improve The Performance of my Hospitalist Service?

Simply put, a sub-optimal hospitalist service affects everything from revenue to quality of care and patient satisfaction scores. Conversely, a hospitalist service that operates like a finely tuned machine and produces high-quality clinical documentation results in superior care and a well-supported hospital revenue cycle. 

The question is, how do you optimize your hospitalist service and achieve these stellar results? You begin by building a hospitalist service comprised of physicians who are aligned with the mission of the hospital. Relying on locums tenens and short-term clinical staff subject to turnover will never get you there. You want and need physicians who feel a part of the hospital and have skin in the game. 

This is where Open Source MD and its partners enter the frame. 

The Solution: 

  • Open Source MD physicians working within our model communicate more effectively. 
  • Hospitalists work with Open Source MD partners to transform their CDI standards.
  • Open Source MD physicians have more career satisfaction and better relationships with the hospital.
  • Open Source MD scheduling model reduces hospitalist-patient handovers, improving provider efficiencies in coordination of care, quality of care, and patient satisfaction scores. 

Clinical Documentation Integrity is the Key to Denials Avoidance

A vital, supplementary service we offer is a program to supercharge your hospital’s CDI. The past two decades have seen tremendous growth in information technology in medicine, from high-tech EMR solutions to cloud software suites. What we have not seen, however, is corresponding improvements in clinical documentation integrity (CDI). Many would argue that the CDI has declined in many areas with the emphasis in most CDI programs upon simple diagnoses captured through the query process

Physicians are often spread thin and have great demands placed on their attention. The result is insufficient documentation that leads to avoidable self-inflicted denials and appeals. Denials and appeals are needlessly taxing your clinical staff and impact patient care and hospital revenue. If there is a better way to consistently produce higher-quality clinical documentation — it would certainly be of interest to hospital leadership, wouldn’t it?

The Better Way 

Part of Open Source MD’s solution for hospitalist services is a program to improve CDI. Working with our partner organization, we help train clinicians and give them the tools they need to achieve high-quality clinical documentation. 

This means not only better patient care but better reimbursements and far fewer denials. Why not avoid the appeals process altogether by delivering top-notch clinical documentation from the beginning? 

Open Source MD and its partners can fine-tune your CDI initiatives resulting in:

  • Marked reduction in denials and appeals.
  • More consistent support of the hospital revenue cycle.
  • Higher quality of care and better communication among clinicians.

A Systemic Approach to Hospital Staffing and Care Delivery

The most successful hospital CEOs and administrators are those who can visualize the hospital as a system and understand each of its parts well enough to isolate deficiencies and capitalize on opportunities. But there’s more to improving the performance of a hospital in the 21st century than simply understanding the system and all the players. Healthcare is incredibly complex and hospital management isn’t becoming any simpler. 

Being able to recognize talent in your workforce and utilize it to maximum effect is essential. So is knowing when bringing in a contractor who specializes in optimizing specific functions of the hospital system. 

This is where Open Source MD and its partners can be of service to you and your organization. We are physicians who have worked within these very systems for over 20 years. We are acutely aware of the staffing challenges hospitals face today and intuitively understand how to address them with innovative solutions. 

Targeted Hospital Staffing Solutions and More  

Open Source M.D. was founded by physicians with first-hand experience of today’s hospital staffing challenges. If you are looking for better physician staffing options than the usual temporary and locum tenens arrangements — we should talk. If you know systemic inefficiencies, inadequate clinical documentation, morale, or attrition are holding your hospital back — we have the solutions you’re after.   

The Open Source MD model connects physicians to hospitals so they can build lasting relationships as partners. Unlike commercial hospital staffing agencies, we facilitate long-lasting, sustainable doctor-hospital relationships rather than acting as an obstacle to them.  

Please call us at 336-997-9840 or contact us online to learn more.

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