March 2015

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Is Your Patient Intake Making the Grade?

Is Your Patient Intake Making the Grade?

Call intake and the reception/registration processes should be analyzed on a quarterly basis in every medical practice. This is the lifeblood of your business. Do not become over-confident that the patients will stay with your practice just because you have good providers. Most communities have many good doctors, so if your patient intake is not […]

Generation gap differences in your practice: employees and employers

Generation gap differences in your practice: employees and employers

Generation gaps in the workplace present major challenges to both employees and employers. There is such an expansive difference in age between the oldest and youngest generations in today’s workplace; it is the first time in American history that businesses are experiencing four different generations working side-by-side. Not only has the workplace itself changed vastly over […]

Ophthalmology Patient Flow: How Is Your Documentation?

Ophthalmology Patient Flow: How Is Your Documentation?

As ophthalmologists navigate their way through their daily patient schedule, it is vital that the provider spends as much quality face-to-face time with each patient as feasible. How frequently is that valuable “quality patient time” interrupted or diminished because the work-up technician and/or scribe has not adequately and/or correctly documented in the patient record/chart? Poor […]