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In a recent google search for “how to improve revenue for the average physician practice”…….many articles, blogs, white papers, webinars, etc. were available. They all basically said the same thing: Revenue for the average practice is going down. Poor reimbursements, larger... Read More

A productive healthcare practice is one of the main goals of most healthcare practices. No matter your specialty, productivity means money gained and money spent. Every practice is looking for operational improvements that make a difference to their bottom line. And if you are... Read More

Predictive Analysis is the next step in data analysis. Up to this point, healthcare analysis has been focused on “what happened” & “why did it happen.” What can we learn from what happened? How can we institute change based on what happened? How can we... Read More

Is marketing a healthcare practice a good idea? What a loaded question. There are many ways this could be answered. But the plain and simple answer is, YES. Most assuredly, YES, this is a good idea. Have you seen the commercial that boasts relief for you allergy symptoms by... Read More

“It all comes down to following the money,” he said. “As soon as it is important to a provider, important to a payer, important to a hospital for information to flow into them, then the vendors will make it easy.”   Office of the National Coordinator for... Read More

Controlling healthcare costs is an on-going discussion among providers. And no one disagrees the costs need to be controlled in order to continue to meet medical practice obligations. But do you know what you direct and indirect costs are? Do you have a clear way of calculating... Read More

Wellness programs cost about $6 billion a year. And guess what? According to a Kaiser study, they don’t work. Let me re-phrase that, they work for organizations to lower cost; they don’t work for the average employee. Healthcare cost does not respond to the stick/carrot method,... Read More

Do you know what ONC represents? Do you know the meaning of interoperability? Do you know what API is and how it relates to healthcare EHRs? The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is a staff division within the U.S. Department of Health and... Read More

Healthcare management is meeting patient needs in innovative ways and the time for full payer involvement in palliative care is finally here. Healthcare payers are responding to the challenge of how to provide end of life care in a way that makes sense to patients and providers.... Read More

Healthcare management is always in a state of change. Seemingly more so in the recent years than ever before. More particularly, the business models are changing and how someone may get the healthcare they need or desire.  Having had a couple of opportunities lately to fly, of... Read More