“The health care landscape is changing dramatically
for solo physicians to large group practices,” said DCMS President Cynthia Sherry, MD. “This new orga- nization will help all types of physicians deal with this great change. DCMS is proud to partner with TMA to provide these essential tools to physicians. Together we will help physicians meet quality benchmarks for patient care, leverage information technology, and compete successfully in changing financial models. The real winners will be patients.” HCMS President Russell W.H. Kridel, MD, said the
new organization “will provide services to help physi- cians navigate the changing health care delivery sys- tem. The best use of a physician’s time is in directly taking care of the patient one on one, not in dealing with red tape, reporting measures, and compliance regulations. This is exactly what is needed to maintain the sacred patient-physician relationship. It’s very ex- citing to see new innovative projects like this that can
help physicians spend more time with their patients.” “This is a physician-driven enterprise to improve
patient care,” said TMA Board of Trustees member Dan McCoy, MD, who chaired the task force that developed the project plan. He said it will “use the latest technology and data analytics tools to bolster the bedrock of our profession: the patient-physician relationship.” “This is the most important thing TMA has done
since tort reform,” said Don Read, MD, of Dallas, a member of the TMA Board of Trustees, which ap- proved the organization at TexMed 2013 in San Anto- nio in May. For more information about the Physician Services
Organization for Patient Care and its services, email Kim Harmon, TMA’s director of special projects, at
kim.harmon@texmed.org.
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