Improve Staff Performance at Your Medical Practice
Here are three simple tactics to improve responsiveness, productivity, and accuracy among your medical practice employees.
Perverse Incentives in Healthcare Achieve Little
One hospital rewards surgeons who finalize operative reports with golf balls, thus discouraging its objective by providing incentives for a different behavior.
Six Ways to Protect Medical Practice Funds from Embezzlement
Here are six basic principles to protect funds coming into a medical practice from embezzlement as well as some red flags to watch.
Medical Practice Embezzlement: Key Accounts to Watch
Want to reduce possible embezzlement and detect fraud at your medical practice? Monitor your various financial accounts closely using these tips.
Avoiding Embezzlement at Your Medical Practice
Here are six strong indications that a physician needs to be concerned about possible embezzlement in a medical practice.
Physicians: Get a Good Look at Practice Operations
Here's how physicians can get eyes into their practices' operations - and fix what's broken.
Motivating Your Medical Practice Staff
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.
Medical Practice Standard Operating Procedures: Expect Exceptions
Wise deviations from standard operating procedures are essential to effective medical office operations.
HIPAA-compliant Alternatives to the Fax Machine
Here are some slicker, more economical alternatives to the fax machine for your medical practice, especially when it comes to following HIPAA rules.
Effective Scheduling Tips for Your Medical Practice
An efficient medical practice operates on an effective daily schedule. Here are five tips to employ today to get your office running smoothly.
The Importance of an Operations Manual at Your Medical Practice
One tool makes optimal practice profitability, productivity, and risk medication possible. So do you have it at your medical practice?
Holding Your Medical Practice Staff Accountable
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.
Get What You Really Want From Your Medical Practice Staff
Here are five steps to get the most out of your medical practice staff to make everyone happy and the office productive.
Four Reasons Why Improving Patient Satisfaction is Good Business
Improving patient satisfaction is both good business and good medicine. It has the potential to decrease costs, reduce staff turnover, and mitigate risk.
Getting a New Medical Practice Hire Up to Speed
Here are four ways to get a new hire up to speed and into the flow of your medical practice's productivity.
Increase the Likelihood of a Good Hire at Your Medical Practice
Poor staff performance and excessive turnover can't be completely eliminated at your medical practice, but here are three principals to reduce these incidents.
Like the Auto Industry, EHRs Will Continue to Evolve
Current EHRs resemble early automobiles - and they will also continue to become more reliable and useful as they mature.
A Physician's Reception Room Reflects the Practice
The reception room delivers a strong message about practice attitudes, priorities, and competence. It may not be the message you want to send.
Making Digital Patient Charts Work for Your Medical Practice
Electronic health records are great - if you maximize the positives and minimize the negatives of these digital files.
Medical Practice Benchmarks: Using Them Correctly
Medical practice performance benchmarks without context are useless, and relying simply upon reported measures is ill advised.
Measuring the ROI of Your Medical Practice's EHR
An EHR's impact on practice productivity can render meaningful use incentive payments irrelevant.
Boosting Medical Practice Productivity: A Case Study
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.
Clear Communication with Medical Staff Means Better Results
Giving practice staff context for a task or policy enables them to perform reliably, and it increases both their productivity and yours.
Six Steps to Boost Productivity by 30 Percent at Your Medical Practice
Thirty percent of the activity in any type of office is wasted …and that percentage is even higher in a medical office.