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Physicians: useful leadership article about biases from Fast Company
If you've visited here before, you might have seen some of my posts about the challenges physicians face in managing their practices. In most medical practices, the physician-owners are also very busy health care providers whose business management time is quite constrained. This makes it that much more difficult to
Your smart phone’s lurking dangers
The iPhone, Android or other cell phone you depend on for everything – besides texts and calls your phone is likely keeping you busy with games; productive with email, to-do lists and calendars; in touch with Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter; and convenienced with applications as straightforward as a simple flashlight.
Preventive services can be the antidote to the deductible reset
The deductible reset is looming in January, and it's poised to wreak its usual havoc with cash flow. Cash-flow impact could easily be even worse this year, given that deductibles have likely increased and become more of a problem for many of your patients. Naturally, alerting patients to the possibility
Fundamentals of business apply to medical practice management, too
Marcus Lemonis -- the investor/fixer who stars in CNBC's "The Profit" -- believes that the keys to success for any type of business boil down to three fundamentals: people, process, product. Once you understand that all the shortcomings and the positives of any business will fall into one of these
Increasing productivity targets for your providers? Make sure they’re achievable
If you've found that your practice can't sustain profitability at your providers' current level of productivity, you may be thinking that it's time to ask your physicians and mid-levels to start seeing more patients per day. But have you evaluated whether your patient workflow actually has extra capacity? Sometimes, your
Physician productivity and compensation: the theme of 2014
Themes seem to emerge each season in our medical practice management consulting business; in 2014, one of the most striking has been the connection between physician productivity and physician compensation. It's an issue we've seen play out in nearly all our engagements, in both start-ups and established practices, in both