Your patients depend on your organization for their care. The best way to continue serving them is by making sure your health system operates like a well-oiled machine. But inefficiency in your physician enterprise can frustrate patients and prompt them to look elsewhere for care.

Your patients’ needs should drive how you think about your physician enterprise—but optimizing it means confronting myriad challenges. You need a big-picture approach to your physician enterprise, evaluating its efficiency and expenses along with related technology, staffing, and provider compensation.