CMO dialogue

Today's chief medical officers play a pivotal role in hospitals, leading quality and performance improvement, participating in business development and strategic planning and managing physician performance. This three-part, roundtable series explores the evolving role of the CMO. These candid discussions provide insight to the complexities of the position, as well as innovative solutions to common challenges, such as obtaining medical staff-buy in, physician-hospital relationships and the impact of pay-for-performance.
This series is sponsored in part by support from Ortho-McNeil, division of Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Part 1: Quality, Safety and Performance Improvement
CMOs today play a central role in quality, safety and performance improvement. This discussion explores CMO's involvement in improving clinical performance and reaching quality and patient safety objectives. It also examines medical staff structure and obtaining buy-in from the medical staff.

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Part 2: The CMO and the Medical Management of Inpatient Care
The complexity of today's care delivery system requires strong physician leadership. This roundtable examines the CMO's role in the medical management of inpatient care. It explores the link between cost and quality and how CMOs can effectively develop and maintain efficient delivery systems.

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Part 3: Physician-Hospital Relationships: Is the Model Broken? Can it be Fixed?
One of the fundamentals of the CMO position is to oversee medical staff operations. This discussion examines some of the challenges hospitals face today in developing strong relations with the medical staff. It explores how CMOs can establish positive physician-hospital relationships.

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