Productivity

Here are some ideas to identify, understand, and re-motivate your medical practice staff and turn them back into people who love their work.

Don’t let the bad attitudes linger: Print this list and give it to each person in your office.

Warner Thomas, CEO of Louisiana-based Ochsner Health System, compares healthcare to the airline industry in his keynote speech at HIMSS13 in New Orleans.

Decisions made during the design of medical office spaces have long-term consequences. Make sure you’re allocating enough time and attention to the process.

Do you have medical practice staff hesitant to change or adapt to new policies or procedures? Here are a few tips and ideas to help them along.

See what CMS owes your medical practice for your services by downloading the the 2013 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.

Repetitive mistakes made by medical practice staff members are often not their fault.

It’s a common complaint that EHRs don’t conform to the way providers actually work. Understanding why this may be the case can help develop effective solutions.

Any task that consistently takes widely divergent amounts of time to perform is out of control and a sign that something is wrong at your practice.

How changing small behaviors first can effect change in your medical practice.

Ensure shifting between tasks at your medical practice does not harm accuracy or productivity

A recap of this year’s most popular blogs and some of the key lessons that can be learned from each.

The blogs that garnered the most attention among our physician readers in 2012, and some of the lessons learned from each.

One of the positives from the state of healthcare reform is the focus on prevention and early detection, which means great opportunity for generating revenue.

A friend from my past, let's call her Dr. Fabulous, taught me four key lessons to improve productivity in a medical practice and in life.

Care coordination is one of the most elusive yet important ways to improve outcomes. Here’s how one group gets it right.

Consider these points when determining the point of collection in your medical practice.

Here are the dos and don'ts of rewarding your hardworking employees.

Hurricanes and blizzards cause us to remember our humanity, to focus on necessary aspects of our overstuffed lives.

Psychiatrist Daniel B. Block lays out his first term as president of the United States of Utopia.

Here are some pointers to have a valuable meeting worth your time and the time of your medical practice staff. Hint: It's all in the agenda.

Each call that comes into your office is a chance to build revenue by helping a new or current patient

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.

A healthy organization is crucial to success, but many practices are plagued by dysfunction.

Medical practices need to start looking at the AWV as a business and healthcare opportunity. Offering staff bonuses to schedule the visits may help.

Improving physician and staff communication is critical to Patient-Centered Medical Home Success. Here are some tips.

Here are three tips to prepare your medical practice for success in the 21st century.

Timeliness ties together all of our aspects of providing great customer service for patients.

Some efficient and coordinated scheduling of the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit can benefit patients and your medical practice.