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Issue Date: January 15, 2001
E-Health Plans Raise Questions for Physicians
This article discusses some of the issues surrounding the emerging e-health plan trend and looks at several e-health plans and how they work. Whether these plans will replace managed care, the article argues, remains an unanswered question.
Variety of Tools Helps Small Practices Compete
This editorial discusses how, since the 1980s, three technology-based trends are helping physicians in their office administration tasks and in their ability to compete in the marketplace.
OIG Unveils Work Plan for 2001
This article discusses the areas in which the Office of Inspector General will focus its Medicare investigations this year. It argues that to avoid audits or penalties, physicians must understand all the issues involved in this area and then review their practices to ensure that they are in compliance with the regulations.
Five Principles of Organizing Practices
This article discusses five fundamental principles that physicians should focus on in order to run a successful practice, and looks at the important considerations and issues behind each of them.
Working With Alternative Providers
This article argues that physicians who understand why patients look to alternative medicine for treatment can make use of that knowledge to complement traditional forms of therapy. In doing so, physicians can attract and keep patients who would otherwise seek nontraditional practitioners.
Medical Groups Need Professional Management, Physician-Executive Says
This interview discusses how professional practice management services can benefit physician practices. It argues, however, that even after they have contracted for such services, physicians still need to be intimately involved in the business aspects of their medical practice in order to be successful.
Practices Will Continue To Control Care
This commentary discusses what physicians need to do to be successful in today's health care market. Among the suggestions are using tools such as EMRs, the Internet, and e-mail to build patient volume.
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