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Eat your vegetables: make carrot cake! (Or, learn to love your EHR)
Photo of carrot cake (c) Fotolia.com Joe and I recently presented a webinar called "Finding the ROI in Your EHR" with Kareo. Joe remarked after that it might have been more appropriate to call it, "Learn to Love Your EHR." This is because one of the main points
Persuading providers to be more productive
When we analyze practices that are not as profitable as they'd like to be, the physicians that hire us usually expect us to focus on expense cuts. But while we sometimes find over-staffing, outdated service contracts or other expenses that can be shaved, more often than not, the critical issue
For doctors and administrators: great HBR post on dealing with disappointing performance
In our work helping medical practices improve their profitability and efficiency, it's not uncommon to find that employee morale, performance, and turnover are problems. Those problems, in turn, often stem from the relationships between staff and their leaders -- and staff perceptions about how physician owners and practice administrators regard
Reminder: EHR ROI webinar this week (2/19)
Please join Joe Capko and me as we present "Finding the ROI in Your EHR," a free webinar hosted by Kareo. Joe and I will be discussing many different ways your EHR can help your practice become more profitable and serve your patients better. We hope you'll take part on
Maintaining medical practice cash flow in Q1
As we've posted here before, almost all practices face the risk of a cash flow crunch in January and, really, through all of Q1, thanks to the deductible reset. (January's revenue collections are sometimes also hit lower volume in December because of the holidays -- a double whammy.) In our
EHR: the right thing for the wrong reasons? (Get ROI, not just MU incentives!)
Did your practice adopt an EHR primarily (or solely) because of Meaningful Use (MU) incentives? And is MU your main focus when it comes to using your EHR? If you adopted EHR technology mainly to meet MU, you may not be expecting to gain anything from it beyond government incentives