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Thinking About a Direct Primary Care Practice?
DPC (where patients pay a flat fee for their care) combined with the smart use of technology empowers patients, creates the true “medical home,” and redefines the way doctors think about patient care.
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The Time to Start Succession Planning is Now
Whether you’re in solo practice or a member of a medium-sized or large medical group, you eventually will have to face the complicated questions regarding your exit strategy.
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The Link Between Physician Stress, Burnout, and Disruptive Behaviors
Increasing levels of stress and burnout are aggravating disturbing physician behaviors. Although it is difficult to document a cause-and-effect relationship between stress and burnout and disruptive behaviors, the imp...
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The Challenges of Being a Positive Role Model for Your Employees
Being a positive role model for your employees is a lot harder than it sounds. This article describes the values, attitudes, and behaviors that are worth modeling for healthcare employees. It also offers healthcare ex...
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The Balancing Act of Clinical Leadership: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic
As the world braces for life post-pandemic, we offer these lessons to our future colleagues, emphasizing the importance of ensuring that true leadership reflects the voices and experiences of the front-line staff and ...
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Taking Advantage of Health IT: Applying New Technology, Care Collaboration, and Telemedicine
By the time we have Medicare for All and the physician-led reform model could conceivably be implemented, the building blocks of the technological future will be in place. At that point, these health IT tools can be e...
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Provider Financial Pressures Mount in 2023
Based on the economic factors described in this article, there are several key topics to know and monitor as 2023 begins.
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It’s Not Obsolete to Have a Practice Retreat
This article discusses the importance of a practice retreat and offers suggestions for conducting a meaningful and productive retreat.
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Is There Value in Physician Coaching? Implementation of a New Paradigm
Coaching provides education, motivation, skill development, and insight when helping to facilitate an individual’s competency in and mastery of a particular discipline. Physician coaching has been identified as critic...
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How Health Systems Can Survive: The Case of Musculoskeletal Care
Health systems must be part of the solution of patient care delivery in the musculoskeletal area, as they understand complex situations based either on the diagnosis or patient health conditions. The solution is not i...
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Financial Controls in the Healthcare Practice: Using Emotional Intelligence to Trust and Verify
This article discusses the use of emotional intelligence for physicians and the administrative staff to help mitigate financial risk in the healthcare practice.
