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Podcast: Politics and Healthcare 2008
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In this 20-minute podcast, Owen Dahl, MBA, FACHE, CHBC, author of Think Business! Medical Practice Qualtity, Efficiency, Profits discusses the current issues facing our representatives in Washington including -- his best guess on the 10.5% Medicare issue, the difference between national health insurance and single payer insurance, who are the key players to watch in Washington, the changes in DC that will have an impact on private practices, and how physicians and adminstrators can keep in touch with their representatives and how they can get involved on a local level.
http://www.thinkbusiness.md
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Podcast: Lean Healthcare in the Medical Practice
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Donna Weinstock of Office Management Solution discusses, in this 20-minute interview, the popularity of lean healthcare, provides detail on the "7 wastes" and describes the criteria for determining if a process or system in a medical practice needs to be streamlined. What can medical practices learn from TPS - Toyota Production Systems? Donna Weinstock will tell you...and she will also describe steps on how a medical practice can become a "Lean" provider.<br /><br />Donna Weinstock, <a href="http://www.officemanagementsolution.com">www.officemanagementsolution.com</a>
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Use of Business Intelligence in the Medical Practice
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Tim Coan, CEO of ALN Medical Management, presents compelling reasons behind collecting and analyzing business intelligence in the medical practice. He reviews "Insight" and the results that these insights produce. He further discusses the technology, data collection processes and reporting needed in the practice to drive collection of business intelligence. Lastly, he provides strategies on how physicians or business administrators can use business intelligence to drive changes in the medical practice.
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Interview with Medical Blogger and Resident Maria of intueri.org
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Discussion about the phenomena of blogging, specifically in medicine. Topics include reasons for, and value of medical blogging; the generational gap between the older medical establishment and the new crop of physicians; the doctor-patient relationship.
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Interview with PZ Myers of Pharyngula.org
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Kent Bottles, MD, interviews University of Minnesota - Morris Developmental Biology Professor PZ Myers, who is also the founder of the hugely successful science blog, Pharyngula.org. They discuss the role of blogging for science and medicine, using blogs to interpret heavy science for the lay public. The discussion then turns much deeper and heavier to topics such as the erosion of public education, Francis Crick, the conscious being, trust in medicine, peer review, split brain experiments and science as religion.
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