Total Panel Ownership and the Panel Support Tool-"It's All About the Relationship".

By Gerard Livaudais, MD, MPH Robert Unitan, MD Jay Post Frank Brennan, MD, a primary care physician, arrives at work at 7:00 am, to get a head start on the day. It’s a Monday and he knows his schedule will be full of patients wanting his care and attention. He enjoys being with his patients, but always needs more time. He diligently works through his schedule, focusing on one patient at a time. Dr Brennan worries about all the patients on his panel who need to come in but haven’t. He would like to get back to why he became a physician in the first place: to be with, talk to, and care for his patients in a personal way. But by the end of the day he is exhausted trying to stay on schedule. It’s only Monday. Simply running faster will not work. Dr Brennan thinks there’s got to be a better way. health systems