Scheduling is at the heart of healthcare. Poor, or even mediocre, scheduling processes can cost a small clinic hundreds of thousands of dollars. Creating and using meaningful appointment types to optimize scheduling for your practice is important for the bottom line and decreasing stress and burnout. This is a challenge for any practice. First and foremost, the scheduling … [Read more...] about Creating and Using Meaningful Appointment Types
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COVID-19 Proves a Need for Health System Overhaul to Salvage the Future
Rural areas feel the pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic in a disproportionate way with greater challenges, including older populations, more health problems, economic disadvantages, and fewer and less sophisticated medical facilities, and more. Where I practice, West Alabama—the center of the stroke belt—exemplifies these characteristics. This area was underserved before the … [Read more...] about COVID-19 Proves a Need for Health System Overhaul to Salvage the Future
Financial Benchmarking: How Does Your Practice Compare to Others?
How Does Your Practice Stack Up? A helpful tool to check how you are doing financially is to compare your practice to your peers’ practices. The results can be eye-opening—you will often find you are doing well in areas where you thought you were struggling. On the other hand, if your practice is struggling in certain areas, financial benchmarks can provide … [Read more...] about Financial Benchmarking: How Does Your Practice Compare to Others?
Could Rural Medicine’s Approach to COVID-19 Solve Long-Standing Disparities in American Healthcare?
Rural areas face numerous challenges that are being amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. In rural America, we have older populations, a larger percentage of minorities, higher rates of comorbidities, more economic disadvantages, and fewer and less sophisticated medical facilities. West Alabama, where I practice, and East Mississippi are at the center of the stroke belt and … [Read more...] about Could Rural Medicine’s Approach to COVID-19 Solve Long-Standing Disparities in American Healthcare?
Leaders Get the Best from Their Employees
The Clipboard My father was an engineer who designed power plants. His first day of work was an education— one that applies to many fields. We must learn the core features of our business, but why not borrow from things that have worked elsewhere. On my Dad's first day in 1958, he arrived at the power plant in a suit and tie. The plant director didn’t even look up when he … [Read more...] about Leaders Get the Best from Their Employees