From SHSMD and Kaufman, Hall & Associates, the Physician Strategies Evaluation Tool is an innovative online diagnostic instrument that allows you to assess your organization’s readiness to enter into partnerships with physicians. Through a comprehensive assessment of 11 dimensions of your organization’s culture and a custom report based on your input, you’ll gain insight into your organization’s strengths and weaknesses as a potential physician partner.

     Components | Gathering Information | Interpreting the Findings

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Components
The Physician Strategies Evaluation Tool consists of:

• A comprehensive online questionnaire
  
  
• A downloadable workbook to help you coordinate your organization’s responses to the questionnaire
  
  
• A customized scorecard that provides a high-level summary of your questionnaire responses, rating your organization’s readiness to pursue new physician partnerships and indicating steps for doing so
  
  
• A bibliography of suggested readings
  
  
• A benchmarking report based on data from participating organizations*

The questionnaire is divided into the following sections:

Organizational information Organization history Market and culture dynamics Governance Physician leadership

Medical staff dynamics  Hospital-physician support infrastructure Information technology Competitive activities Current physician-hospital partnerships/business arrangements Strategies

Gathering Information
The ideal person to lead the information-gathering process is a senior-level strategist who is familiar with the organization and has (or can gain) access to the data needed to complete the questionnaire. It is recommended that the project leader enlist the cooperation of colleagues and stakeholders in other areas of the organization, such as administration, medical affairs, and governance. The quality of the scorecard depends on the extent and diligence of the organization’s information-gathering efforts.

Interpreting the Findings
Your organization’s questionnaire responses and scorecard should be evaluated together so that senior executives have a common understanding of the organization’s current physician dynamics and its readiness to pursue new strategies with physician partners. From there, senior executives can develop action plans for implementing new strategies or for revising current strategies on the basis of the Physician Strategies Evaluation Tool findings. 

* The benchmarking report will be sent to those who complete the questionnaire pending a sufficient number of participating organizations.
No individuals or organizations will be identified.