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The Wolf Of Change Wants To Be Fed

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

Before we can move into any direction toward anything, a decision must be made.  Think about it – to move the car you must put it in drive first.  You may be longing for something different to happen in your medical practice, but cannot seem to make a move toward anything different.  It may seem to you that “something has to change” and you may have verbalized that to yourself more than once. Often times we find ourselves waiting for an external event to make us change or subsequently bring change into our lives.  Waiting for that outside thing (or [...]

How Business Coaching Helps Practice Managers

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

Practice managers who are unfamiliar with coaching often ask what it is and how it can benefit their practice/life.  Here are a few ways that coaching offers different and unique improvements within a practice: Morale Issues Call For a Different Technique There are situations requiring different skills such as employee morale and relational issues within the practice.  Have you ever heard the saying that “you can’t see the forest for the trees?”  Well, it is very much like that when a viewpoint has been set with employees and management alike.  Without different perspectives and viewpoints the outcome will remain the [...]

Team Building In Your Practice

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Now that healthcare reform is hitting your practice squarely in the eyes it is important to call upon all resources within your practice.  Hopefully you have a Team of resources.  Your team could involve employees, other practice managers, outside vendors, and even patients for that matter.  Coordinating your team is the effect of collaborating with your team members in order to bring about changes and policies within your practice. Employee Team Members It is time to accentuate the positive and keep morale high for the changes to come.  Allowing small negative talk to filter through your practice can throw morale [...]

Medical Office Managers Responsibilities For Change

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

As a medical office manager, you may find yourself overwhelmed these days with responsibilities.  Seems your position is not only full of patient interaction, employee conflicts, and provider issues, but now there are ever more increasing compliance mandates being placed on your checklist for implementation due to healthcare reform. Medical and Practice Managers are swimming through the acronyms of ARRA, EHR, EPHI, HITECH, OCR, PHI, TPO, HIPAA just to name a few.  You are now being required to be familiar with these terms, acronyms and their meanings.  If not already, you will be implementing these practices into your office policies [...]