Resources

HCS Resources

HCS Whitepaper

  • The changing face of health-care in Ontario and its impact on hospitalists (pdf) 

  • The economic crisis of the past few years has forced health-care payers to focus on efforts to “bend the health-care cost”. In this paper, HCS analyzes some of the proposed new health-care legislations and funding initiatives in Ontario and the opportunities and the challenges they provide for the hospitalist movement in the province.

  • Hospitalist Scheduling: how can a balance be reached (pdf)

    Arguably, the most time consuming and complex issue facing a hospitalist leader and his or her group is scheduling. Designing a schedule that satisfies every member’s request for holiday and CME time and at the same time meets the coverage requirements of the hospital is surely the most challenging part of running a hospitalist group.In Part 1 of our series on scheduling, we present an overview of some of the important issues that need to be considered for an optimal Hospitalist scheduling system ...
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  • Workload Models(pdf)

    The ability to predict and measure workload is an integral part of running a successful hospitalist program. It has major implications on projecting staffing needs, maintaining equitable and sustainable scheduling, and predicting appropriate compensation levels. Traditionally, there has been little emphasis placed on this type of measurement in medicine. This may in part be the result of the prevailing compensation mechanisms for physicians which up to recently have primarily been ...
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