Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Multidisciplinary Institutes, Contracts for Doctors: Keys to Innovation at the Cleveland Clinic

Approaching Illness as a Team.  Editorial, The New York Times.  December 24, 2012.

Over the last five years The Cleveland Clinic has created 18 institutes for the multidisciplinary approach to illness of particular body systems.  Physicians are salaried with one-year contracts and performance reviews with termination for some doctors who fall short.  Data analysis of performance is a crucial part of the Cleveland clinic approach leading to decisions by doctors about treatment options.

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