Referring Physician Services
The University of Michigan Health System offers the following services and resources to its referring physicians and health care professionals:
Colleagues in Care Newsletter - A quarterly publication for physicians that highlights trends in the practice of medicine at the University of Michigan.
Consult Request Guidelines -
A Web site developed by UMHS faculty and clinical departments which contains suggested patient management and test guidelines for referring physicians to consider prior to scheduling a UMHS clinic visit.
M-LINE - Toll-free service for health care professionals
M-CALL - Referral coordination service for Integrated Health Associates (IHA)
M NET - UMHS fax network for medical information.
MarketScope - UMHS physician database containing comprehensive information on Michigan and Northern Ohio physicians
Referring Physician Advisory Council - Forum for referring physician input and feedback.
Referring Physician Satisfaction Survey -
A biennial statewide referring physician satisfaction survey. The objective is to identify and measure current attitudes with respect to ability to refer to and communicate with UMHS physicians across the patient continuum of care.
In March 2005 the U-M Health System physician and consumer call center was the first academic medical center in the nation to receive certification as a Center of Excellence by BenchmarkPortal.
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