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Webcast: Physician Development, Engagement and Leadership Depth
March 7, 2012 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern
Hospital executives and physician leaders will learn about critical techniques such as coaching, evaluation and incentives and training to transform doctors into effective hospitalists and team leaders.
Speakers:

  • Edward G. Murphy, MD, Former CEO Carilion Clinic and Sound Physicians Chairman
  • Thomas H. Lee, MD, President of Partners Healthcare System and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Robert Bessler, MD, Sound Physicians CEO and Founder

To register for this event, click here

Resources and Links

Webinar: The Checklist Manifesto and Hot Spotters for Inpatient Care
January 24, 2012
Speakers: Atul Gawande, MD author of ‘Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right,’
and Robert Bessler, MD, CEO and Founder, Sound Physicians
To view this webcast on-demand, click here

Public Policy Action: Comment to CMS Proposed Rule on 2012 Physician Fee Schedule
Click here to download.

Focused practice passes its first class: Doctors give high marks to hospital medicine recertification
Featuring Sound Hospitalist J. Kevin Ahern, MD. Published in the May 2011 issue of Today’s Hospitalist

Sound Physicians Webcast: Value-Based Purchasing DVD | On-Demand
Featured Speakers:

  • Robert A. Bessler, MD, CEO & Founder, Sound Physicians
  • Edward Murphy, MD, Chairman, Sound Physicians
  • Leslie Norwalk, Led the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Sound Physicians Webcast: Improving Patient Satisfaction and HCAHPS Scores DVD | On-Demand
Featured Speakers:

  • Robert A. Bessler, MD, CEO & Founder, Sound Physicians
  • Quint Studer, CEO & Founder, Studer Group
  • Mark Rudolph, MD, Chief Training Officer, Sound Physicians

Measuring Hospitalist ROI Webcast  
Available on CD, Presented by Healthcare Marketplace in partnership with SHM, featuring Robert A. Bessler, MD, President and CEO of Sound Physicians.