In a Physicians Practice blog post, Audrey Mclaughlin, RN, CEO of McLaughlin Sales Group, lays out 10 tips to help physicians ensure the emails that they send to colleagues or patients are not misunderstood.
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"We have a pretty robust safety reporting culture here," says Carrie Tuskey, director of risk management at Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System. But she admits, "It takes a long time to change the mindset in healthcare around error reporting." Here,…
In a Physicians Practice article, Carol Stryker, a principal at Symbiotic Solutions, discusses three reasons why staff fearing the physician is ultimately hurtful for practices.
Most physicians believe that shifting to pay-for-performance programs would positively affect quality of care at their practice, according to the "2013 Physician Sentiment Index," by Epocrates and athenahealth.
In a KevinMD blog post, Vipul Kella, MD, vice-chairman of emergency medicine at MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital in Clinton, discussed the need for standardization across operations in hospitals and physician groups.
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Most physicians report that getting paid by insurers has become increasingly burdensome and complex, according to the "2013 Physician Sentiment Index," by Epocrates and athenahealth.
In a Financial Post report, Rick Lash, director of the leadership and talent practice at Hay Group, a global management consulting firm, laid out four core questions that can help identify future leadership at an organization.
Physicians across all organization types can expect to see median salary increases of 2.4 percent for 2014, according to the 2013 Physician Compensation Survey by Hay Group, a global management consulting firm.
A poll from the American College of Physician Executives questioned whether Medicare should release payment data to individual physicians, with the answers relatively split.
The percentage of all office-based physicians who report accepting new Medicare patients has increased from 87.9 percent in 2005 to 90.7 percent in 2012, according to a study by the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.