Posted on February 28, 2010 by Editors
Office of Inspector General By Pati Trites MPA, CHBC with Staff Reporters The Office of Inspector General [OIG] believes a medical billing company’s written policies and procedures, its educational program and its audit and investigation plans should take into consideration the particular statutes, rules and program instructions that apply to each function or department of the billing [...]
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Posted on February 27, 2010 by Editors
What it is – How it Works By Staff Reporters Several ME-P readers have contacted us for a definition of the term “reconciliation” and what it means in the current political debates and the recent Healthcare Summit in Washington, DC. Definition, According to Wikipedia, Reconciliation is a legislative process intended to allow consideration of a contentious budget [...]
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Posted on February 27, 2010 by Editors
Collegial Greetings – All Readers and Subscribers By Ann Miller; RN, MHA [Executive-Director] The Medical Executive-Post is a thriving online and onground community that connects medical professionals with financial advisors and management consultants. We participate in a variety of educational seminars, teaching conferences and national workshops. We produce journals, textbooks, handbooks and award-winning dictionaries. Our didactic heritage includes innovative Research & Development initiatives, litigation support [...]
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Posted on February 26, 2010 by Editors
More than just a Hiccup? By Staff Reporters According to TheStreet, health care information company AthenaHealth(ATHN Quote) just announced what seemed like a minor account hiccup. Last night however, another accounting hiccup for AthenaHealth surfaced, and the health care information company announced that it will be postponing its fourth-quarter earnings. Link: http://www.thestreet.com/story/10690575/1/athena-health-dives-on-accounting-issues.html Assessment Investors now [...]
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Posted on February 26, 2010 by Editors
Why – or Why Not? By D. Kellus Pruitt; DDS If you are a dentist and pay ADA dues year after year to be kept better informed about protecting your patients as well as your practice, your ignorance of HIPAA is not entirely your fault. The ADA clearly dropped the ball. Nevertheless, you could still [...]
Filed under: Healh Law & Policy, Information Technology, Practice Management | Tagged: ADA, Apgar & Associates, Chris Apgar, CISSP, CMS, Darrell Pruitt, Department of Dental Informatics, Dom Nicastro, Dr. Luther, EHRs, EMRs, HIPAA, HITECH, Jean Narcisi. Narcisi, Newt Gingrich, OCR, Office of Civil Rights, PHI, president | 6 Comments »
Posted on February 25, 2010 by Editors
Preparing for the Debate and a TV Audience By Staff Reporters In convening today’s bipartisan health session, President Obama is angling to recreate the kind of spontaneous, unscripted debate that gave him a decided advantage when he took questions on live television at a House Republican retreat in Baltimore Maryland, last month. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/health/policy/25summit.html?ref=health Assessment [...]
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Posted on February 25, 2010 by Editors
Dichotomy Not Unlike Values Based Healthcare By Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA, CMP™ [Editor-in-Chief] According to Charles Jaffe, a Dow Jones Columnist, it’s one thing to say you want to do the right thing, and something altogether different to actually do it. Actually, I contacted Chuck early in my journalistic career, about a decade after receiving my [...]
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Posted on February 25, 2010 by Editors
It’s Not All about Health 2.0 and Technology By Ann Miller; RN, MHA Nearly 144,000 people die each year from stroke in the United States, making it the third leading cause of death in the country, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]. The Founder Olajide Williams MD is the founder [...]
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Posted on February 24, 2010 by Editors
Affecting 500 or More Individuals By Staff Reporters As required by section 13402(e)(4) of the HITECH Act, the Secretary must post a list of breaches of unsecured protected health information affecting 500 or more individuals. The following breaches have been reported to the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services [DHHS]. Full Report [...]
Filed under: Breaking News, Information Technology, Pruitt's Platform, Quality Initiatives | Tagged: Darrell Pruitt, data breach, DHHS, EHRs, electronic medical records, EMRs, health information technology, HIPAA, HITECH Act, Kathleen Sebelius, PHI | 13 Comments »
Posted on February 24, 2010 by Editors
On eMRs – Just Go for IT By Darrell K. Pruitt; DDS Neil Versel, a frequent contributor to FierceEMR, posted an article titled “CCHIT’s Leavitt: Don’t wait for final rules to proceed with EHR.” http://www.fierceemr.com/story/cchits-leavitt-dont-wait-final-rules-proceed-ehr/2010-02-18#comment-778 Half-Baked Ideas Even though many states are spending eHR stimulus bucks as fast as they can on half-baked, expensive ideas [...]
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Posted on February 23, 2010 by Editors
Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health By Staff Reporters The County Health Rankings projects aims to demonstrate that where we live matters to our health. For example, the health of a community depends on many different factors – ranging from individual health behaviors, education and jobs, to quality of health care, to the environment. This first-of-its-kind [...]
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Posted on February 23, 2010 by Editors
Fallback Version Now More Likely than Ever By Staff Reporters President Barack Obama put forward a nearly $1 trillion, 10-year healthcare reform bill compromise yesterday that would allow the government to deny or roll back egregious insurance premium increases that infuriate consumers. Of course, all ME-P readers are aware of the recent Wellpoint scenario, and [...]
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Posted on February 22, 2010 by Editors
The Solution – Tomorrow’s Technology Today By Staff Reporters www.patienttrak.net was created in order to easily and affordably allow emergency departments and healthcare organizations track and monitor patients with a simple web browser. The design of PatientTrak.net makes registration and flow management user-configurable options suitable for most any healthcare department or organization. Dry Erase Boards [...]
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Posted on February 22, 2010 by Editors
The National Governors Association Meeting By Staff Reporters The National Governors Association (NGA)—a bipartisan organization of the nation’s governors—promotes visionary state leadership, shares best practices and speaks with a unified voice on national policy. Healthcare Politics The nation’s governors gathered this weekend to address critical issues, including health care reform and the economy. The Governors [...]
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Posted on February 22, 2010 by Editors
How One Doctor’s Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out By Staff Reporters Improving health care is a priority for all Americans, but it’s a daunting subject. New Book In this new book, Dr. Peter Pronovost makes reform relatable, easy to understand, and inspiring. With opinions and anecdotal evidence from patients, [...]
Filed under: "Doctors Only", Book Reviews, Quality Initiatives, Risk Management | Tagged: Eric Vohr, health reform, healthcare quality, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Peter Pronovost, Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals | 2 Comments »
Posted on February 21, 2010 by Editors
On Hospital Compliance By Staff Reporters www.HealthcareFinancials.com The privacy regulations of HIPAA require that each hospital have an internal process to allow an individual to file a complaint concerning the covered entity’s compliance with privacy policies and procedures. This requires hospitals to designate a contact person to be responsible for receiving and documenting the complaint [...]
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Posted on February 21, 2010 by Editors
A Leading Resource for Doctors, Financial Advisors & Management Consultants By Staff Reporters The Medical Executive-Post is offering sponsorship opportunities to market leaders in the integrated fields of practice management, health economics, and financial planning. Sponsors will gain visibility for their companies, demonstrate their support for our industry, and be afforded unique opportunities to interact [...]
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Posted on February 21, 2010 by Editors
A Cross-Cultural Collaborative By Staff Reporters The Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) was founded in 1956 to foster cross-cultural understanding, scholarship, academic achievement and societal development through the international study of educational ideas, systems, and practices. The Society’s members include more than 2,000 academics, practitioners, and students from around the world. Protean Interests CIES [...]
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Posted on February 20, 2010 by Editors
Peterson Dental Supply Reveals a Decline By Darrell K. Pruitt; DDS Yesterday, Kevin Henry posted “Dental news of the day for Thursday, Feb. 18” on the DentistryiQ Blog. The source for the day’s dental news was a sales report provided by Patterson Dental Supply. http://community.pennwelldentalgroup.com/profiles/blogs/dental-news-of-the-day-for Soft Sales “Sales of dental equipment and software declined 10% [...]
Filed under: Information Technology, Practice Management, Pruitt's Platform | Tagged: ADA, ADA Department of Dental Informatics, DDS, dental records, DentistryiQ Blog, EagleSoft, eDRs, EMRs, healthcare reform, HIPAA, Kevin Henry, obama, Patterson Dental Supply | 5 Comments »
Posted on February 20, 2010 by Editors
More about the ME-P By Ann Miller; RN, MHA [Executive-Director] Although this online resource is focused on physicians and their financial advisors, anyone involved in the financial services industry or healthcare space, including chiropractors, dentists, podiatrists and osteopaths, nurses, medical assistants, medical practice managers, residents and fellows, medical and nursing students, and allied healthcare professionals are [...]
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Posted on February 19, 2010 by Editors
How It Works – and – What to Watch Out For By Dr. Gary L. Bode; CPA, MSA, CMP™ This ME-P reviews the basics of buying on margin, along with some of the pitfalls inherent in margin buying – whether this financial tool is for you and how you can best use it. The Term [...]
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Posted on February 19, 2010 by Editors
Patient 2.0 Collaborative Care Worries Doctors By Staff Reporters Writing for Time, Bonnie Rochman digs into the ramifications of patients sharing information and tips online, an “empowerment movement” she calls “Patient 2.0.” Society of Participatory Medicine In the piece, she profiles the newly created Society for Participatory Medicine, which “encourages patients to learn as much [...]
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Posted on February 19, 2010 by Editors
MRI Drug Omniscan Implicated in UK By Staff Reporters General Electric Healthcare has settled its libel lawsuit against Dr. Henrik Thomsen, the Danish radiologist who raised questions about the safety of one of the company’s drugs used for magnetic resonance imaging [MRI] scans. Press Release: statement According to Jeff Gerth of ProPublica, the two-year-old suit [...]
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Posted on February 18, 2010 by Editors
Ten Ways to Lower your Taxes By Sean G. Todd, Esq., M. Tax, CFP®, CPA 1. Buy a home You can take advantage of a buyer’s real estate market and buy a home at prices not seen for years. We are seeing prices discounted from 10-30%. First time buyers – doctors and other individuals – who haven’t owned a residence in [...]
Filed under: Accounting, Taxation | Tagged: 401(k), 403(b), capital gains, CFP, CMP, CPA, dividends, JD, Roth IRA, Sean Todd, tax credits, tax planning, W-4, www.certifiedmedicalplanner.com | 6 Comments »
Posted on February 18, 2010 by Editors
Names Reported Missing from Federal Database By Staff Reporters Writing in ProPublica, and the Los Angeles Times, Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein report that more than two decades ago, Congress set out to stop dangerous or incompetent caregivers from crossing state lines and landing in trouble again. So, it ordered up a national database allowing hospitals [...]
Filed under: "Doctors Only", Professional Liability, Quality Initiatives, Risk Management | Tagged: Charles Ornstein, dangerous healthcare givers, David E. Marcinko, Division of Practitioner Data Banks, National Practitioner Data Bank, ProPublica, Tracy Weber | 14 Comments »
Posted on February 18, 2010 by Editors
Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee By Karen Matthias Lansdale, PA—February 12, 2010 Hayes, Inc., the nation’s leading health technology research and consulting company, today announced that Susan A. Levine, DVM, MS, PhD, Vice President of Health Technology Research and Consulting, has joined the Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC). The MEDCAC [...]
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Posted on February 17, 2010 by Editors
Writes for the Medical Executive-Post By Ann Miller; RN, MHA [Executive-Director] Dr. Somnath Basu is no stranger to the ME-P, or the financial planning community. He is a Professor of Finance at California Lutheran University and the Director of its California Institute of Finance. Academic Background Dr Basu earned his BA in Economics, University of Delhi, MBA [...]
Filed under: "Ask-an-Advisor", Financial Planning, Investing, Portfolio Management, Recommended Books | Tagged: California Institute of Finance, CFP, CFP Board of Standards, Finance at California Lutheran University, financial advisor, Financial Planning, financial planning association, FPA, RIA, Somnath Basu, stock broker | 4 Comments »
Posted on February 17, 2010 by Editors
Online Since September 2008 By Staff Reporters According to their website, Disruptive Women in Healthcare™ seeks to serve as a platform for provocative ideas, thoughts, and solutions in the health sphere. They recognize that to accomplish this, a call on experts outside of the health industry is required Service Goals The founding Disruptive Women have [...]
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Posted on February 17, 2010 by Editors
About HealthyMagination.com from GE By Staff Reporters Just imagine … the broadcast TV or radio commercial fades in, as the announcer says: “Almost everyone wants to make healthier choices, but they don’t always know how. The amount of information available on wellness, nutrition and exercise is overwhelming, to say the least. Even when we do [...]
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Posted on February 16, 2010 by Editors
Strategic Risk Considerations for Physician-Executives and Healthcare CXOs By Calvin W. Wiese; MBA, CPA, CMA www.HealthcareFinancials.com To most all financial advisors, wealth managers and stock-brokers, the work of Harry Markowitz and Modern Portfolio Theory [MPT] is not usually discussed in terms of hospital capital formation. But, perhaps it should! Capital Investments Create Risk Capital investments [...]
Filed under: Financial Planning, Healthcare Finance, Portfolio Management, Retirement and Benefits, Subscribe CD-ROM Journal | Tagged: asset allocation, capital investments, Financial Planning, Harry Markowitz, Journal of Finance, Merton Miller, Modern Portfolio Theory, MPT, Risk Management, standard deviation, William Sharpe, www.healthcarefinancials.com | 1 Comment »
Posted on February 16, 2010 by Editors
A Fat Tuesday Message By Staff Reporters Last week, First Lady Michelle Obama kicked off a campaign to try to end childhood obesity within a generation. Of course, with the current Olympics, and impending Lenten season about to start, the timing could not have been more prescient. Let’s Move – The Video The campaign to [...]
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Posted on February 16, 2010 by Editors
About the Integrated Digital Hospital By Staff Reporters Improving Medical Care Delivery How does the integrated digital hospital streamline workflows and improve care? View this video for one opinion. Link: Launch video (WMV 6MB) Healthcare IT’s Business Value Now, see how Intel and Cerner helped Banner Health, one of the largest U.S. nonprofit healthcare systems evaluate [...]
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Posted on February 15, 2010 by Editors
An Economics Argument By Austin Frakt PhD The Incidental Economist Originally Posted: 14 Feb 2010 03:58 AM PST Let’s say the cost per saved life due to providing an additional individual with health insurance is X dollars (Tyler Cowen says X = $9 million; I say that’s an overestimate). If one thinks X is too high, [...]
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Posted on February 15, 2010 by Editors
What it is – How it works By Staff Reporters Wolfram Alpha is an online mathematical search engine launched in March 2009 and developed by Stephen Wolfram. It seeks to answer factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data, rather than providing a list of web pages that might contain the answer. In [...]
Filed under: Accounting, Career Development, Health Economics, Healthcare Finance, Insurance Matters, Investing, Research & Development | Tagged: API, Bing, cyc, gridMathematica, Mathematica, statistics, stephen wolfram, webMathematica, Wolfram Alpha | 1 Comment »
Posted on February 14, 2010 by Editors
The Competition Heats Up for Medical Dollars By Staff Reporters www.MediBid.com opened to patients around the world on January 1, 2010 after several years of research and development. The firm was developed to provide access to greater choice and privacy, regardless of insurability, in a completely open market environment, without anyone or anything getting in the way of [...]
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Posted on February 14, 2010 by Editors
What is it – How does it work? By Hope Rachel Hetico; RN, MHA [Managing Editor] The Internet is a constantly evolving service that continues to grow at an exponential rate, despite late adoption by some physician practices. History Since 1995, the primary use of the internet was e-mail communications with peers, hospitals and others. [...]
Filed under: Career Development, Glossary Terms, Recommended Books, Research & Development | Tagged: Bonnie Rochman, health 2.0, Matthew Holt, patient 2.0, scott shreeve, Society for Participatory Medicine, web 2.0, www.healthdictionaryseries.com | 2 Comments »
Posted on February 13, 2010 by Editors
An OSHA Requirement By Staff Reporters www.HealthcareFinancials.com The Hazard Communication Standard The OSHA Hazard Communication Standard requires proper labeling of all chemicals present in the workplace. Labels are usually provided on chemicals that are found in a healthcare practice, but when a substance is transferred from its original container to a different container, a [...]
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Posted on February 13, 2010 by Editors
Photo-Journalism from the Man / Woman in the Street By Staff Reporters Have you ever accidentally run into a “mover and shaker” of the healthcare industrial complex – a “big shot” in the financial services space – or maybe even an expert in the medical management or health information technology ecosystem? How about the rarest [...]
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Posted on February 12, 2010 by Editors
Forest Park – St. Alexius Hospital Merger Contentious By Hope R. Hetico; RN, MHA [Managing Editor] Our own Dr. David E. Marcinko was interviewed on February 10th 2010, at 8:45 pm EST, by Brian Kelly of KMOX News Radio, in St. Louis MO. As most of us were saying good-night, Dave was discussing a recently announced local hospital [...]
Filed under: Experts Invited, Health Economics, Health Insurance, Media Mentions and PR, Touring with Marcinko | Tagged: Brian Kelly, CMS, CPT codes, david marcinko, DRGs, Forest Park Hospital, hope hetico, KMOX, Medicaid, medicare, SCHIPS, SGR, St. Alexius Hospital, www.SuccessHealthcare.com | 4 Comments »
Posted on February 12, 2010 by Editors
About “Path of the Blue Eye” By Staff Reporters If you are involved in any area of health marketing communications (e.g., social marketing, digital marketing, social media, public relations, advertising, patient relations management, etc.) and think you have something valuable to contribute to the overall conversation in this field, consider visiting: http://blog.pathoftheblueeye.com/ The Project Manager The [...]
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Posted on February 11, 2010 by Editors
Help us Find a Case Report Learning Experience By Ann Miller; RN, MHA We at the ME-P have been reporting for the past four years on the troubles in which medical professionals often find themselves while running a private medical practice. It’s difficult for doctors to stay abreast of the healthcare industrial complex, or always select the [...]
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Posted on February 11, 2010 by Editors
Musings of an Informed Thought-Leader By Somnath Basu PhD, MBA Brief Excerpt The recent debacle in the financial markets has opened up a plethora of issues that require serious attention from all market participants. Perhaps the most serious concern is the emergence of a “mixed” economy where both “public” and government-owned enterprises will coexist with “private” enterprises. Review of Past Performance Unfortunately, [...]
Filed under: Financial Planning, Investing, Portfolio Management, Research & Development | Tagged: California Institute of Finance, california lutheran university, Financial Markets, Somnath Basu | 1 Comment »
Posted on February 10, 2010 by Editors
A Slide-Show Visual Presentation By Ann Miller; RN, MHA [Executive-Director] Here at the ME-P, we are always searching the relevant universe for interesting people, innovative ideas and novel approaches for unique and competitive healthcare delivery models. And so, we think we’ve found a winner in this presentation by Dr. Bertalan Mesko. About the Author [...]
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Posted on February 10, 2010 by Editors
Behind the Scenes, GE’s Top Executive Confided Credit Woes By Staff Reporters As the “ticking” financial crisis worsened toward the end of 2008, CEO Jeffrey Immelt and other leaders at General Electric repeatedly assured the public that there was no need to worry about the company’s ability to access credit markets and refinance its massive debts [...]
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Posted on February 9, 2010 by Editors
More on Delta Dental By Darrell K. Pruitt; DDS Kathy Kincade, Editor-in-Chief of DrBicuspid posted the article, “Studies urge adding adult dental benefits to Medicare” on January 29, 2010. http://www.drbicuspid.com/index.aspx?sec=sup&sub=pmt&pag=dis&ItemID=303755 Ms. Kincade has always been generous to Delta Dental, making me suspect that she is less than unbiased. Of Delta Dental For example, at the [...]
Filed under: Career Development, Op-Editorials, Pruitt's Platform | Tagged: AARP, ADA, ADABEI, Ari Adler, Brian Casey, Chris Pyle, Darrell Pruitt, DDPA, DDS, delta dental, dental managed care, dental PPO, Dr. Hamm, DrBicuspid.com, Kathy Kincade, Rabia Mughal, Ron Tankersley | 9 Comments »
Posted on February 9, 2010 by Editors
What it is – how it works By Staff Reporters According to Bill Crounse MD of Microsoft, clinical medical groupware is a new and evolving model for the development and deployment of health IT platforms and applications, the characteristics of which include use of the Internet and the Web as a platform, explicit design for [...]
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Posted on February 8, 2010 by Editors
Is it Budget Neutral? By Brian J. Knabe MD, CFP, CMP www.CertifiedMedicalPlanner.com The New Year 2010 has brought some changes in the Medicare Physicians Fee Schedule. For many specialists, the most significant change is the elimination of consultation codes, 99241-99245 in the outpatient setting and 99251-99255 for inpatient care. Physicians can still provide consultations and bill [...]
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Posted on February 8, 2010 by Editors
Healthcare Reform’s Rock Star -or- Much Needed Plain Speaker? By Hope Rachel Hetico; RN, MHA, CMP™ [Managing Editor] Here is an essay-interview by Rahul K. Parikh MD, with Atul Gawande MD, as they talk about medicine, checklists and quality healthcare. Book Review In Gawande’s third book, “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right,” he explores how [...]
Filed under: "Doctors Only", Book Reviews, Quality Initiatives, Recommended Books, Risk Management | Tagged: ", "The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, Atul Gawande, hope hetico, medical checklists, Rahul K. Parikh MD, Robert Wachter, WHO | 1 Comment »
Posted on February 7, 2010 by Editors
Reading, Opining. Clicking and Subscribing By Ann Miller; RN, MHA [Executive-Director] We are thrilled you’ve stopped by to review the Medical Executive-Post. There is something here for everyone; doctors, nurses, JDs, financial advisors, CPAs, MBAs, healthcare executives, CXOs and medical management consultants. The entire healthcare industry ecosystem is in our collective DNA, as more than 50 topic [...]
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Posted on February 7, 2010 by Editors
Understanding Why Cash Flow is King By Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA, CMP™ [Publisher-in-Chief] www.HealthcareFinancials.com The manager, administrator or COO of a hospital’s working capital, or physician executive of a private medical practice, strives to optimize the amount of cash on hand to ensure daily operations. Too much cash generates little return, while too little [...]
Filed under: Accounting, Healthcare Finance | Tagged: cash conversion cycle, cash flow, collection period, david marcinko, Internal Rate of Return, inventory, inventory holding period, IRR, medical collections, NetPresent Value, NPV | 1 Comment »
