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Health Literacy in the Medical Practice
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Interview with Gloria Mayer, RN, Ed.D., President & CEO, Institute for Healthcare Advancement. In this timely podcast Dr. Mayer discusses the focus on health literacy and the surrounding problems of patient compliance with regimens, patient understanding of medical problems and the tricky aspects of identifying patients who have difficulty reading. Gloria Mayer reviews the "Ask Me 3" program - 3 basic questions that health professionals should answer for every patient. She discusses problems affiliated with medical jargon and she also shares practical tools and innovative solutions to combat low health literacy.
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Disease Management in the Medical Practice
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20-minute podcast interview with Charles A. Peck, MD, FACP, Chief Medical Officer of LifeMasters, where he discusses the following: Why doctors should be aware of disease management and embrace the concept, what exactly is disease management and how it works, the common misconceptions about DM, the benefits of a disease management program in a medical practice, and the important indicators that disease management tracks and how it can work for physicians in the pay-for-performance era. http://www.lifemasters.com
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Interview with Blog Pioneer Dr. Robert Centor of Medrants.com
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Kent Bottles, MD interviews Robert M. Centor, MD, Professor and Director, Division of General Internal Medicine Assoc., Dean for CME and Huntsville Regional Medical Campus. Dr. Centor is one of the earliest medbloggers and runs the well known blog www.medrants.com. They discuss the phenomena of blogging and the issues facing new private practice physicians.
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Finding The Right Office Administrator/Office Manager for Your Practice
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Fran Parrish is the Administrator of the Department of Dermatology at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY and served as President of the Association of Dermatology Administrators/Managers (ADA/M) since 2004. Ms. Parrish, with 18 years as a practice administrator, describes the day-to-day activities of an administrator in an academic practice and she provides hints for physicians in hiring an office manager and how physicians can be good "partners" with the administrative staff. How does a physician decide between an office manager and an office administrator? Also traits that make a good office manager and hot topics in practice are also covered.
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