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Robert Schwab, M.D., chief quality officer at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton and Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Allen, sings “The Ballad of Go-Live,” a wry chronicle of exasperation and ultimate success in implementing the CareConnect electronic health record at Texas Health Denton. CareConnect is now fully integrated into operations at all 13 wholly-owned facilities in […]
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Yes, your practice is a business. And your patients are like customers. Some colleagues don’t like to use terms like ‘customers’ when they are talking about patients, but that is exactly how you need to treat them if you want to have a growing, thriving business. This is particularly true if you are just starting […]
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Guest Post, Katie Matlack You want irony? Try this: the Kaiser Family Foundation reports that we women are the ones make the health care choices for the kids in 8 out of 10 families. Yet women are far and away the minority gender in the world of health IT leaders. Health IT is one […]
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A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that the number of patients seeing nurse practitioners or physician assistants has increased by 50% in the last decade, according to a post on the Human Capital Blog. At the same time, there has been over a 70% decline in the number of outpatient […]
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Guest Post, William McClain, MBA If you are a practicing physician today, your world is being buffeted and reshaped by a dizzying confluence of disparate external forces. The federal push for EMR adoption, HIPAA security rules, practice needs for greater operating efficiency and productivity, “retail consumerism”, increasing market competition and the steady advance of medical […]
