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Lean Healthcare in the Medical Practice
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Donna Weinstock of Office Management Solution discusses, in this 20-minute interview, the popularity of lean healthcare, provides detail on the "7 wastes" and describes the criteria for determining if a process or system in a medical practice needs to be streamlined. What can medical practices learn from TPS - Toyota Production Systems? Donna Weinstock will tell you...and she will also describe steps on how a medical practice can become a "Lean" provider.
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Interview with Medical Blogger Dr. R.W. Donnell
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SoundPractice interviews Dr. R.W. Donnell of "Notes from Dr. RW" medical blog, a hospitalist in Northwest Arkansas. Discussion includes how and why Dr. Donnell started blogging, effects on him as a physician and person, evidence based medicine, hospitalists vs. non-hospitalists, complementary and alternative medicine, spiritual review of systems.
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M.A.D. Leadership for Healthcare: Proven Strategies for Getting People to Do What You Want Them to
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In this 20-minute pocast, Wendy Lipton-Dibner, MA, author of Best-Selling new book, M.A.D. Leadership for Healthcare: Proven Strategies for Getting People to Do What You Want Them to Do discusses the formula of M.A.D. Leadership -- M for Motivate, A for Align, D for Differentiate -- the formula that the author has used to help hundreds of practices to make significant changes in the ways they work and relate to people. These proven techniques of "getting people to do what you want them to do," are helping doctors and dentists see major increases in their practice revenues. The book published in May, 2009 to rave reviews and is under consideration at a number of medical, dental and health administration schools as part of the required curriculum. The launch of this book is perfect timing -- who is going to help doctors and administrators get through this time of pending health reform change? Who is going to help doctors weather the "people issue," while selecting and installing an EHR System? Who is going to make sure practices thrive and succeed so that the practice stays in business? Practices need a fast-track model to get doctors, staff and patients to work together and this exciting new book is the answer. www.madleadershipforhealthcare.com
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Is Your Billing Service Doing You a Dis-Service?
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This podcast, from and article by Gregory H. Nizich, C.H.B.C., describes a manual tracking system that lets the billing service do all the work and requires a minimal amount of time to maintain. The goal of the system is to keep the billing service on its toes by routinely requesting the status of random claims. Eventually you will become a very polite, but squeaky wheel, and will get the attention you deserve.
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