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Special Judy Capko webinar event: The Secret to Strategic Planning – Making the Most of Your Practice’s Future (May 8, 2014)
Join Judy Capko, author of Secrets of the Best-Run Practices, for a special, 90-minute webinar for physicians on strategic planning. A strategic plan will provide your practice with a strategy to respond to key regulation like the Affordable Care Act and secure your future in times of rapid change. A
Thinking portals and Meaningful Use Stage 2? Join my free webinar
Does Meaningful Use Stage 2 have you thinking (perhaps worrying) about offering a patient portal to your EMR? Or do you have a portal, but wonder if it's getting the use that it should -- and whether it's really helping to engage your patients? Next Wednesday, 4/16/14, I present a
“We are not a bank” — Lessons from CNBC’s “The Profit”
I just got around to watching the episode of The Profit focused on A.Stein Meats. Now, you may be wondering why on earth I'd be posting about a meat business here -- what could that have to do with medical practice management? Well, The Profit deals with a variety of
Small practices: PCMH is not out of reach
The Patient-Centered Medical Home is so much more than just a payment innovation -- it's an idea that appeals for clinical reasons to so many physicians and practice managers, who were already aiming to provide the higher level of care-coordination and patient engagement that is the foundation of the PCMH.
Patient use of physician ratings sites increasing — not waning
If you've been among the practice managers and physicians ignoring the 'fad' of physician ratings sites, hoping they'll just fade away eventually, there's bad news for you in last month's JAMA: more people than ever are aware of the existence of physician ratings sites. And more people than ever are
Bullying can be a problem at medical practices
Yahoo! reports that a recent study by the Workplace Bullying Institute showed that bullying -- defined as "abusive conduct that is threatening, intimidating, humiliating, work sabotage, or verbal abuse" -- is a problem at nearly half of all US workplaces. They also found that 27% of all adult Americans have