Managing Your Practice
Managing Your Practice
How do you answer patients’ emails?
Several groups, including the American Medical Informatics Association and the American Medical Association have proposed standards, but none have...
Managing Your Practice
Can patients record office visits?
How would you respond to a patient asking (or demanding) to record all or part of their office visit?
Managing Your Practice
Escaping the daily grind
I write this reminder every couple of years because it's so easy to lose sight of the overall landscape among the pressures of our daily routines...
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Full-time, part-time, FTE: Know the differences
While rules vary from state to state, some generalizations can be made.
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Exorcising your ghosts
"Ghosting" is the situation where an employee disappears without any warning, notice, or explanation.
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Financial planning in the COVID-19 era
Many readers have expressed the fear that their retirement savings would never recover from the COVID-19 hit.
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OSHA in the COVID-19 era
To be certain you are complying with all the rules, you can call your local OSHA office and request an inspection.
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If you reopen it, will they come?
The big question, of course, is whether patients can be convinced that it is safe to leave their homes and come to your office.
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Overhead management during a crisis
I sincerely hope that all of our practices will return to some semblance of normal in the coming months; but we cannot assume a best possible...
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COVID-19: What now?
With great reluctance, I must trot out a hoary old cliché: Hope for the best, but plan for the worst.
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Medical identity theft
If your office's computer system does not have effective fraud protection, you could be held liable for any fraud committed with information...