Southeast Texas Medical Associates, LLP James L. Holly, M.D. Southeast Texas Medical Associates, LLP


Your Life Your Health - SETx Healthcare Issues Facing Southeast Texas
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James L. Holly,M.D.
August 24, 2000
Presented to Beaumont Chamber of Commerce, Beaumont, Texas, Thursday, August 24, 2000
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  • Many challenges face Southeast Texas' healthcare delivery system
  • Systems Thinking
  • SETMA Has Adopted Senge's Ideas
  • Southeast Texas Medical Associates' Strategy
  • Transactional and Static Medical Records
  • Limitations of Old Document-based System of Medical Records
  • Systems Thinking, Results in Integrated Healthcare Delivery Networks (IDN)
  • Continuum of Care Model
  • SETMA Moves Toward an IDN
  • Constable or Counselor?
  • Managed Care: Realities, Rights & Responsibilities
  • Three Fundamental Questions Which Face All OF Healthcare
  • The second relevant issue is "responsibility."
  • The Third Relevant Issue is Rights:
  • Changing Accountability
  • The Issues Facing Southeast Texas
  • Selling A Systems Approach to Healthcare Delivery
  • The Information Systems Department
  • Interim Judgment of A Systems Approach to Healthcare Delivery
  • Southeast Texas Strategy for Success
  • Vested Interests Often Resist Solutions