eric johnson invented them 11 years ago. he is paired up a opportunities development inc.k for them next time 2010 special olympics in july. >> i remember those. >>> it was overcast but the rain stopped for you. >> bob turk has your updated weather forecast after this break. more breaking news now. a very bad accident. captain mike perry is over the scene. >> reporter: we are in pin brook, this is cold spring lane where a head-on collision occurred between a sport utility vehicle and a sedan there is a on on going rescue t road is closed by fire apparatus. police are on the scene investigating. we will keep you updated. back to you. >>> the clouds pretty much moved out. here and there, spotty. >> we had sun a few areas with sprinkles popping up. 76. northeast winds continue to bring in moisture though at 7. barometer is high 30.23. that's the flow that we seen the last day or so off the atlantic ocean. today we had sunshine and a couple of sprinkles in the eastern shore. may make it across the bay in next hour or two. just sprinkles here and there 76 here, ocean city is 69

like to give credit to my co-authors and participants listed on the head but it is katie coleman, eric johnson, paul fishman, mike and michael erickson. but we did was changed the way we used the work force and reduced the panel size from 2300 to 1800 patient spur physician. visits were actually increased from 20 to 30 minutes. the teams were led by physicians but the value of the team members was judged to be in a way that had equity that every member of the team had an almost equal statute whether you were a nurse, for mrs. come and nurse practitioner or a medical assistant all contributed as a part of their task. we made a major change in how physicians were paid and had their days scheduled in that they were paid to do what we called desktop work so e-mail, phone call, coordination of care, those were scheduled in to the day just as you would schedule the time for a patient one on one visit and the expectation was rather than catch up at the end of the day with all of those phone calls you are often called up at the beginning of the day or during the day to do phone calls at e-mails and we

there listed, but rob reid, cady coleman, eric johnson, paul, mike, and michael erickson. and what we did was we really changed the way we use our workforce. we reduced the panel size of 2300 to 1800 patients per physician fte. visits were actually increased from 20 to 30 minutes. the teams were led by a physician, but the value of the team members was judged to be in a way that had equity, that every member of the team had an almost equal stature, with you a nurse, a pharmacist, a nurse practitioner, ipa, a medical assisting, all contributed as part of their task. we made a major change in how physicians were paid and had their days scheduled and that they were paid to do what we called desktop work. so e-mails, phone calls, coordination of care, how does, those were scheduled into the day just as you would schedule the time for a patient one on one visit. and the expectation was that rather than catch up at the end of the day with all those phone calls, you're often caught up at the beginning of the day or during the day to do phone calls and e-mails. and we expected tha

johnson foundation. she's and intern and senior fellow with the department of health policy and management at the university of minnesota school of public health. we will hear them from ericholmboe for research at the american board of internal medicine. the foundation also having been a supporter of this issue. eric cleaves this section on a clinical performance services and oversees the board's research on evaluating the ongoing education of the decisions in internal medicine and some specialties. before he joined ibm he was assistant professor of medicine at yale medical school and also served as a director of the robert wood johnson clinical scholars program. then we will hear from joe wan pohl professor reck university of michigan school of nursing, and over the past 30 years has held faculty positions in the nurse practitioner and doctoral programs at michigan. she's also directed the adult nurse practitioner program and served as an associate dean for community partnerships. recently she served as president of the national organization of nurse practitioner faculties. she also maintains primary-care practice in one of the michigan school of nurse management health