Dr Cliff Megerian Blog
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Creating a New UH Model for Improving Value in Health Care
UH Clinical Update - December 2018 By Cliff Megerian, MD, President, UH Physician Network and System Institutes, and Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, Chief Clinical Transformation Officer The world “value” is used so often in business that it verges on...
Put the Whole UH Team to Work for Our Patients
Coordinated care is more convenient care – and, more importantly, leads to better health outcomes UH Clinical Update - November 2018 By Cliff Megerian, MD, President, UH Physician Network It’s good medicine, it’s good for our patients and it’s...
Introducing Salernitana, a Newsletter of UH Physician Achievement
By Cliff Megerian, MD, President, UH Physician Network and System Institutes UH Clinical Update - September 2018 All of us, together, make University Hospitals not only a successful clinical enterprise that provides outstanding care, but also a...
Medical Marijuana Is Coming to Ohio: What Is UH's Policy?
By Cliff Megerian, MD, President, UH Physician Network and System Institutes UH Clinical Update - August 2018 Two years ago, Ohio Governor John Kasich signed off on a law that made the use of medical marijuana legal in this state, shortly after...
Physician Ratings A Double Edged Sword Creates the New Normal
UH Clinical Update - July 2016 By Cliff Megerian, MD, President, University Hospitals Physician Services This is the time of year when the attention of health care providers is drawn to rankings -- most notably those issued by U.S. News & World...
Where We've Been Where We're Going
My full remarks from the recent UH State of the System meeting UH Clinical Update - June 2018 By Cliff Megerian, MD, FACS, President, UH Physician Network & System Institutes As always, I first want to say again, thank you for all you do here. It...
EMR Enhancement
New prescribing algorithm, Pain Institute to be part of the solution UH Clinical Update - April 2018 By Cliff Megerian, MD, President, UH Physician Network One of our priorities for 2018 is focusing on provider engagement, which includes an...
UHs Multifaceted Response to the Opioid Epidemic
New prescribing algorithm, Pain Institute to be part of the solution UH Clinical Update - March 2018 By Cliff Megerian, MD, President, UH Physician Network In the past decade, there has been a nearly exponential escalation in the number of people...