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Have you voted for the Most Powerful Physician Exec of the Year?

Modern Healthcare posted its 2009 ballot of the 50 Most Powerful Physician Executives. You can vote for one of the 100 final nominees, selected from 4,300 total nominations, according to the Modern Healthcare Web site.

Among the superstars on the list are:

• Ron Greeno, MD, founder and chief medical officer of Cogent Healthcare, Brentwood, Tenn. You may have seen Greeno at last year’s HCPro seminar Developing and Maximizing your Hospitalist Program in September 2008. You can also read why he advocates for more accurate patient satisfaction surveys in our article, “Experts say quality surveys flawed: The case for redesigning patient satisfaction surveys” (Nov. 2008 HMA).
• David J. Shulkin, MD, president and CEO of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. Read how he makes a case for utilizing nocturnists in our article, “Making your choice: On-call overnight physicians verses 24/7 staffing” (Aug. 2008 HMA).
• Adam Singer, MD, founder, chairman, and CEO of IPC-The Hospitalist Co. in North Hollywood, Calif. Read this month’s Q&A excerpts on our blog.
• Robert M. Wachter, MD, chief of the division of hospital medicine at the University of San Francisco Medical Center. Wachter has been a valuable resource on a number of our publications.

Congrats to all the nominees, and good luck! Remember to cast your vote!

You can expect the results from Modern Healthcare of the 50 Most Powerful Physician Executives of the Year on May 11.

Interview: Physician Entrepreneur of the Year Adam Singer talks about the origins of IPC

Last week, we posted a sneak peak of an interview with  Adam Singer, MD, CEO of IPC The Hospitalist Company, frequent lead blogger of The Hospitalist Blog, and Modern Healthcare’s Physician Entrepreneur of the Year in 2008. Hear what Singer has to say about the start of the company.

Q: How did IPC get started?

A: When I first got out of my pulmonary fellowship at Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center, I bought a pulmonary practice and formed the Institute of Better Breathing, which became a pulmonary hospitalist practice. In the mid 1990s, I separated the hospitalist business from the pulmonary practice and formed IPC The Hospitalist Company.  In 1995, we started creating a software technology platform to transition patients back to their primary care physicians after they were discharged from the hospital. We spun that off into a separate company called IPC along with the pulmonary practice. [more]

Interview: Adam Singer talks about IPC and hospitalist medicine before it was called “hospitalist medicine.”

HCPro spoke with Adam Singer, MD, CEO of IPC The Hospitalist Company,  frequent lead blogger of The Hospitalist Blog, and Modern Healthcare’s Physician Entrepreneur of the Year in 2008. In an interview, he shared his thoughts on being an entrepreneur, the challenges the hospitalist industry faces, and how he believes they can be overcome.

Q: Please describe your experiences leading up to your current position as CEO of IPC The Hospitalist Company.

A: I was a physician practicing in the trenches when a local independent practice association decided they needed a better way to manage inpatients and control costs. I took this contract and very quickly discovered that what I was doing was better for patients and better for the system of care within the facility. It wasn’t called hospitalist medicine in those days. [more]