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Medical Practice Management Discussion with Mary Witt, Senior Management Consultant with The Camden
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Use of technology, pay for performance, total patient experience, picking a physician, electronic medical records, improving practice from finance and process perspectives, expense management, revenue enhancement, hiring a consultant, recommended professional associations, preparing people for change, practice management as a career, using retreats for building a vision and building relationships and newer trends such as advanced access, group visits, and care models.
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Avoiding Leasing Pitfalls
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Avoiding Leasing Pitfalls by Karen Zupko and Melissa Lupella: This editorial explains some of the most common misunderstandings in the leasing process, such as types of leases, rentable vs. usable space, escalations, and other considerations.
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Those Maddening Phones - Are They Wasting Your Time?
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Judy Capko, Author of the Best-Seller Secrets of the Best-Run Practices and her newest book (publishing March 1, 2008) Take Back Time: Bringing Time Management to Medicine, discusses in this 20-minute podcast why medical practices have such trouble with phone demand and she provides concrete tips and solutions to help the problem. Judy covers how to audit your inbound calls, getting to the root of the "system" vs. the "staffing" problem, how to train staff for good telephone skills, and why a common complaint from patients is the insensitivity of staff members on the phone.
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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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