Carol Stryker

Here are three simple tactics to improve responsiveness, productivity, and accuracy among your medical practice employees.

One hospital rewards surgeons who finalize operative reports with golf balls, thus discouraging its objective by providing incentives for a different behavior.

Here are six basic principles to protect funds coming into a medical practice from embezzlement as well as some red flags to watch.

Want to reduce possible embezzlement and detect fraud at your medical practice? Monitor your various financial accounts closely using these tips.

Here are six strong indications that a physician needs to be concerned about possible embezzlement in a medical practice.

Here's how physicians can get eyes into their practices' operations - and fix what's broken.

Contrary to popular belief, money and praise are not the best motivators for medical office staff. Here are examples of effective motivation you can use today.

Wise deviations from standard operating procedures are essential to effective medical office operations.

Here are some slicker, more economical alternatives to the fax machine for your medical practice, especially when it comes to following HIPAA rules.

An efficient medical practice operates on an effective daily schedule. Here are five tips to employ today to get your office running smoothly.

One tool makes optimal practice profitability, productivity, and risk medication possible. So do you have it at your medical practice?

Here are three principles you should have in place at your medical practice in order to hold staff accountable for their actions on the job.

Here are five steps to get the most out of your medical practice staff to make everyone happy and the office productive.

Improving patient satisfaction is both good business and good medicine. It has the potential to decrease costs, reduce staff turnover, and mitigate risk.

Here are four ways to get a new hire up to speed and into the flow of your medical practice's productivity.

Poor staff performance and excessive turnover can't be completely eliminated at your medical practice, but here are three principals to reduce these incidents.

Current EHRs resemble early automobiles - and they will also continue to become more reliable and useful as they mature.

The reception room delivers a strong message about practice attitudes, priorities, and competence. It may not be the message you want to send.

Electronic health records are great - if you maximize the positives and minimize the negatives of these digital files.

Medical practice performance benchmarks without context are useless, and relying simply upon reported measures is ill advised.

An EHR's impact on practice productivity can render meaningful use incentive payments irrelevant.

An EHR's impact on practice productivity can render meaningful use incentive payments irrelevant.

Here is a case study for a multiple-physician practice that increased its productivity without any additional equipment or software - just a good hard look at its processes.

Giving practice staff context for a task or policy enables them to perform reliably, and it increases both their productivity and yours.

Thirty percent of the activity in any type of office is wasted …and that percentage is even higher in a medical office.