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Interview with Medical Blogger John Grohol Psy.D. of Psychcentral.com
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Kent Bottles, MD, interviews Dr. John Grohol who operates the mental health Web site psychcentral.com/blog/. Topics include medical blogging, effects of blogs on the doctor-patient relationship, the state of the doctor-patient relationship, transparency, views of mental illness in America, the effect of Katrina on mental health and medical practitioners use of the Internet and blogging.
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How to Get Paid for Hospital Services with Betsy Nicoletti, MS, CPC, President of Medical Practice C
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In this 20 minute podcast, Betsy reviews details surrounding physicians getting paid for hospital services. Can physicians get paid if they have to see a sick patient more than once a day? What does group membership have to do with getting paid for hospital services? What is the difference between observation admission series of codes and the observation with discharge codes? What are the rules for critical care? What about the proper way to bill follow up visits after an initial inpatient consultation?
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Podcast Interview with MedPundit Founder Sydney Smith (nome de plume)
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Dr. Sydney Smith is the name that the blogger MedPundit goes by and she talks to Kent Bottles, MD, the editor of The Journal of Medical Practice Management about blogging, installing an electronic medical record in her solo family practice in Ohio, and the problems with explaining medical trends to her patients.
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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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