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Changing oncology compliance standards: step 1 in re-valuing clinician workload for value-based cancer care
As the US health care system moves from incentivizing clinicians for high-volume oncology care to incentivizing them for high-value oncology care with benchmarked clinical and financial outcomes, we will need to understand and restructure existing oncology clinician workloads in an already overworked workforce if the new goals are to be met. A good starting point would be to change compliance standards, which would eliminate the meaningless, burdensome tasks that now consume clinicians’ time and go a long way to drive the desired value-based cancer care delivery system.

 

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The Journal of Community and Supportive Oncology - 13(9)
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value-based care, high-value care, physician workforce, burnout, structured data collection, electronic medical records, EMR, evaluation and management, E&M
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As the US health care system moves from incentivizing clinicians for high-volume oncology care to incentivizing them for high-value oncology care with benchmarked clinical and financial outcomes, we will need to understand and restructure existing oncology clinician workloads in an already overworked workforce if the new goals are to be met. A good starting point would be to change compliance standards, which would eliminate the meaningless, burdensome tasks that now consume clinicians’ time and go a long way to drive the desired value-based cancer care delivery system.

 

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As the US health care system moves from incentivizing clinicians for high-volume oncology care to incentivizing them for high-value oncology care with benchmarked clinical and financial outcomes, we will need to understand and restructure existing oncology clinician workloads in an already overworked workforce if the new goals are to be met. A good starting point would be to change compliance standards, which would eliminate the meaningless, burdensome tasks that now consume clinicians’ time and go a long way to drive the desired value-based cancer care delivery system.

 

Click on the PDF icon at the top of this introduction to read the full article.

 

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The Journal of Community and Supportive Oncology - 13(9)
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The Journal of Community and Supportive Oncology - 13(9)
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307-309
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Changing oncology compliance standards: step 1 in re-valuing clinician workload for value-based cancer care
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Changing oncology compliance standards: step 1 in re-valuing clinician workload for value-based cancer care
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value-based care, high-value care, physician workforce, burnout, structured data collection, electronic medical records, EMR, evaluation and management, E&M
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value-based care, high-value care, physician workforce, burnout, structured data collection, electronic medical records, EMR, evaluation and management, E&M
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