Dr. Prather is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists and has served as a member of the Medical Advisory Panel for the Pew Health Profession Commission at Duke University. He is a frequent national speaker on the importance of achieving the “Integrative Quality” culture needed to ensure safe care and loyalty of patients, physicians, and staff. Dr. Prather practiced for 12 years and is now the president of his own Medical Quality Improvement consulting company. His primary goal is to help hospitals, physicians, patients, and communities reinvent Healthcare under the unique approach that defines Integrative Quality.

   Raising the system’s IQ gets professionals to help each other improve across the boundaries that make-up the health care systems. This focus has become the critical imperative for hospital-based care. Integrative Quality now defines the intelligent path to the highest quality care. Achieving best service for patients is seen to require a focus on the professionals who deliver it.

   The author of two complementary books, Behavioral Types and the Art of Patient Management, and The New Health Partners, Dr. Prather leads organizations to go beyond patient satisfaction to direct IQ. New information focuses on the diversity of the professionals as a strength that can be used to build a new more powerful integrative performance model.

Topics:

o      Achieving Integrative Quality: Building on the diversity that is Health Care

o      Overcoming conflict between professional groups that must integrate services to achieve best care

o   The financial need for integrative quality to unite competing service lines separating the medical professionals from the rest of the organization has reached a crisis proportion.  Patient Safety and error reduction must move from safety nets that catch errors to IQ models that prevent them.

o   Giving patients, staff, and physicians the skills to build integrative relationships 

Of special concern to professional women:

o   Increasing women’s success in the workplace by guiding their own recovery from illness and achieving resiliency. Transforming healthcare responsiveness and accountability to achieve best care for women and their families through computerized patient support in the work place and home environment