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How to Stay on Top of Practice Finances with Judy Capko
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How to Stay on Top of Practice Finances with Judy Capko |
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http://www.soundpractice.net/images/sound/podcast/How_to_Stay_on_Top_of_Practice_Finances_with_Judy_Capko.mp3 |
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Judy Capko, President of Capko & Co., based in Thousand Oaks, California and the author of the best-seller, Secrets of the Best-Run Practices is interviewed by SoundPractice.net. In this 20 minute podcast, Judy reviews the concept of monthly strategy meetings in a medical practice, how to get doctors and others in the practice to buy-in to such meetings, how to best structure meetings to share performance data, and the most important issues and benchmark data to cover on a regular basis. She also discusses how to keep focus and momentum up for such strategy sessions. |
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Nov 6, 2007 |
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