October 17th 2024
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Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.
May 15th 2024
Exploring practical strategies to address staffing shortages in medical practices and ensure the delivery of quality patient care.
May 3rd 2024
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4 ways to recruit Gen Z workers
The youngest generation in the workforce wants meaning and stability. Here’s how to show them the meaningful work your physician practice does.
How to have a well-run practice
Your practice may have a routine, but does it operate like a well-oiled machine?
Peer advice for managing a practice
Have a difficult employee, low staff morale or trouble filling vacancies? Tips and guidance for how to be a better leader.
Avoid these 5 common billing mistakes
A little attention to small billing mistakes can save your practice big money
Exclusive survey results: Practices reveal their biggest staffing challenge
Practices share their attitudes and frustrations about running a medical practice.
Exclusive survey results: What practices pay their staff
Planning to hire staff or considering whether to give them a raise? Check out our survey results first.
How physician and nurse salaries compare
New study finds how much you make depends on your role and responsibilities - and where you work.
10 ways to provide better customer service
You don't have to spend a lot of money (or time) to improve patient care.
How to attract millennial employees
Advice on attracting and retaining younger talent.
Embracing change in healthcare: Tips for getting your team on board
Change isn't easy, but the following tips can help you guide your organization or practice through any transition.
Build employee trust through effective communication
Rethink what you say, and how you say it, as a way to garner employee trust.
How to solve the staffing shortage
How modern technology can help with understaffing.
How to safely prescribe and manage opioids
Avoid legal trouble by doing a thorough review of the electronic prescription process, security options, audits and potential loopholes.
Grow your practice with patient relationship management software
Stay independent and profitable through the use of technology.
Culture and leadership: Two sides of the same coin
Here are four strategies that can go a long way towards creating a culture where people feel engaged, empowered, and supported. And the happier your staff, the greater your patient satisfaction.
Avoid false economies that undermine your practice business
Efforts to save money may even weaken the business-and, sometimes, those weakening effects can be very hard to spot.
Personal relationships key to physician happiness
One antidote to physician burnout is to focus on increasing happiness and work satisfaction.
5 more ways to improve patient access
As providers, it’s our job to identify and anticipate what patients need. But, in order to deliver the right care at the right time, we need to re-examine our processes and relationships not only with our patients, but also with one another.
Practices risk hefty fines when employees snoop in EHRs
Nosy employees poking around in medical records or sharing passwords can put your practice at risk of HIPAA violations, lawsuits, and broken agreements with affiliate hospitals or practices.
Partner with PAs to fight burnout
Reduce your risk of burnout by adding physician assistants to help you carry the load.
Current threats to physician assets
Current events once again illustrate the wide range of legal and physical threats to physicians' assets.
Doctorsplaining
Just when you thought mansplaining couldn't get any worse.
Position your newly hired clinician for success
Effective onboarding can help ensure your new hire knows what is expected and becomes productive more quickly.
Using ‘MAGIC’ to improve employee engagement
Actually, it’s not magic. It’s helping your employees feel connected to their work, understanding their contributions to the bigger picture, and nurturing their continued growth.
Profit-sharing that works (and complies with the law)
It’s great that you want to share the wealth with your nonphysician employees. Just make sure you draft a policy that also meets state and federal laws.
Is your communication style compromising your credibility?
Here are three simple adjustments that can help you ensure others understand what you're trying to convey.
Don’t give employees unrestricted access to medical records
Lax policies regarding medical records and ordering prescriptions and tests puts physicians-and their practices-at risk of DEA and HIPAA violations.
The why matters
You cannot avoid employee mistakes, but you can make sure the same mistake isn't made twice.
Certified PAs in surgical specialties are becoming the rule, not the exception
The rising number of PAs working in surgical subspecialties is helping to fill the physician shortage and represents a larger shift toward team-based practice in the operating room.
A model for positive connections
As the saying goes, it’s not what you said but how you make them feel. Being more conscientious of your delivery can improve communication with patients, staff, and colleagues.