Doctor’s Digest E-Editions
We are pleased to provide you and your practice with 6 issues of Doctor’s Digest (see links below). Each issue is dedicated to a topic that may help you manage, maintain and improve your practice and patient care.
Marketing for the Primary Care Physician
Dramatic changes in the primary care practice environment, including the impact of tough economic times on patient coverage, make it more important than ever for physicians to effectively market their services. This issue will help you identify your "brand," implement a solid marketing plan and leverage Web site, social networking and traditional direct-mail opportunities for your practice.
Best Practices: Patient Safety
Patient-safety and quality-of-care initiatives are now increasingly focused on ambulatory settings—including office-based practices. This issue examines new solutions that can help you design a safer practice, explains the role of the "Physician Quality Reporting Initiative" and demonstrates how you can build upon successes to further enhance your quality and safety efforts.
Primary Care and the Medical Home
Built on the idea of patient-centered care, the medical home model allows a practice to focus on patients—not patient volume. This issue explores why the medical home model is gaining momentum, discusses tools and technologies that can help you transform your practice and offers real-world solutions to make the process affordable.
Time Management
Managing time effectively can increase practice efficiencies and profitability, while also improving a physician’s quality of life. This issue offers best practices, practical tips and real-life examples to help you manage a busy schedule at work and at home.
Consumer-Driven Healthcare
This issue defines the concept of consumer-driven health care and discusses its practical implications for medical practices, including effects on reimbursement, legal issues and doctor-patient relationships. It also accounts for how these effects differ according to practice size and specialty.
Technology for Patient and Practice
Healthcare information technology promises to deliver solutions to help enhance the patient experience and increase practice efficiencies at point-of-care and beyond. But can applications like Web-based patient portals, electronic medical records and telemedicine really deliver on these big promises? Find out in this issue.
