Your Practice and the Recession—Helping Patients Pay for your Services
If your practice is seeing more uninsured patients these days, and if you're therefore experiencing a sharp decline in revenue, you're hardly alone. A...
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Doctor's Digest was created to fill a need unanimously voiced by physicians in a market research project headed by The Matalia Group, November 2004. This research showed that busy physicians want brief, practical and easy-to-use solutions for their non-clinical, practice-related problems so they can continue to focus their time and energy on helping patients.
Your Practice and the Recession—Medicare and Healthcare Reform
Many say that reforming Medicare and shoring up the physician payment system are going to be the real key to any reform effort. As James Rohack, MD, p...
Your Practice and the Recession—Impact on Patient Care
What effects has the economic recession had on patient care? Plenty. Despite the wishful thinking of some who believe that medicine is impervious to e...
Your Practice and the Recession—Novel Coping Strategies for the Recession
The recession and its aftermath have inspired many physicians to reconsider changes in their practice that they would have either ignored or discounte...
Best Practices—Patient Safety: Medication Safety
Given the alarmingly high number of medication errors, how hard is it to ensure medication safety for your patients? As it turns out, it may be easier...
Best Practices—Patient Safety: A New Approach to Patient Safety
According to the Consumers Union 2009 Safe Patient Project, “More than 100,000 patients still needlessly die every year in U.S. hospitals and healthca...
Best Practices—Patient Safety: Reporting Practice Errors
How much do you know about the requirements for reporting errors made in your primary care practice? A good place to update what you know is the Patie...
Best Practices—Patient Safety: How to Improve Patient Safety in your Practice
Why has it been so difficult to create a healthcare system that can prevent medical harm? As a recent report from the Consumers Union stated, “There h...
Marketing for the Primary Care Physician: Your Practice as a ‘Brand'
Put simply, your “brand” is your practice's personality, and it reflects how you will describe your practice to current and future patients. It's the ...
Marketing for the Primary Care Physician: Marketing Your Practice Online
It's not easy to stay on top of online trends: What's hot today may shift quickly in the fast-moving world of technology. But there is one bottom line...