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Home | Learning | Courses by Topic – Practice Management | PM107  The New Interfaces and Accountabilities of the Laboratory Director

NEW  PM107  The New Interfaces and Accountabilities of the Laboratory Director

2:00–4:00 pm
2.0 CME CREDITS

Learn the latest developments in the changing roles of pathologists in this analysis of the direction and operation of new health care delivery systems, including the proposed accountable care organizations. Faculty will describe pathologists’ involvement in new health care accountability measures (eg, meaningful use, comparative effectiveness, patient-centered outcomes research) and recommend ideal utilization of new health care monitoring/compensation models, such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Physician Quality Reporting and Pay for Performance. You will learn about the skills required for financial change; the legal, regulatory, and ethical behaviors for active leaders; and key characteristics or “pearls” of an excellent laboratory director.

You will learn to:

• Describe the aspects of the health care environment that will require good management
• Identify and acquire skills for assuming leadership roles in health care systems
• Employ the key characteristics of an excellent laboratory director (the pearls of pathology)

Faculty
Richard E. Horowitz, MD, FCAP
Elizabeth A. Wagar, MD, FCAP