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Interview with Ron Rosenberg, President of Practice Management Resource Group
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President/Founder of the Practice Management Resource Group. They discuss the business side of medicine, more sophisticated patients, customer service, the difference between primary care and sub specialties, working with doctors, consumer driven health care, the importance of teaching physicians-in-training the art of communication, health saving accounts, transparency and how patients will choose physicians in the future, electronic medical records, having the physician involved in understanding the business through some basic and fairly simple processes, and practice marketing.
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Politics and Healthcare 2008
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In this 20-minute podcast, Owen Dahl, MBA, FACHE, CHBC, author of Think Business! Medical Practice Qualtity, Efficiency, Profits discusses the current issues facing our representatives in Washington including -- his best guess on the 10.5% Medicare issue, the difference between national health insurance and single payer insurance, who are the key players to watch in Washington, the changes in DC that will have an impact on private practices, and how physicians and adminstrators can keep in touch with their representatives and how they can get involved on a local level.
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Streamlining Workflow in the Medical Practice
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The author of the best selling book, Take Back Time: Bringing Time Management to Medicine discusses in this 20-minute podcast the hot topic of "Workflow" in the medical practice, the most important issues to increase efficiency, how the economy is bringing these workflow issues into the spotlight, the low-down on doctors and their schedules, how can staff really implement change, how to adopt inexpensive tech tools and why quality is essential in the discussion about workflow.
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Informal Consultations: Do New Risks Exist With This Age-Old Tradition? by Toni Hendel, Esq., R.N.,
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From the article in The Journal of Medical Practice Management. This podcast cites three court decisions involving physicians who provided an informal or "curbside" consultation. The cases demonstrate the medico-legal implications of physicians engaging in informal consultations. The author then discusses the growing risk of liability for physicians who participate in this traditional practice.
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