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Issue Date: June 15, 1999
Innovative DPM Uses Web to Build Her Practice
This article looks at how a solo podiatric practitioner in Florida developed an online nonprofit organization dedicated to wound healing and diabetic foot care.
Practice Values Varying More Widely
This feature discusses the importance of accurate practice valuation to physicians selling their practice as well as to purchasers, and suggests factors to consider in assessing the value of a practice.
Group Puts Preventive Care Into Action
This case study looks at how a rural family practitioner developed a system to integrate preventive care into his practice.
Podiatrists, Orthopedists Team Up in South Florida
This editorial discusses the organizational strategies of two of the newsletter's readers and why such strategies might work well in a market-driven health care system.
Endoscopy Centers Help GEs Enhance Patient Care and Boost Income
This article discusses endoscopic ambulatory surgery centers and what physicians should know if they are considering opening one.
Network Helps GEs Share Information
This commentary looks at how some gastroenterogists are taking advantage of an annual "networking" meeting to keep abreast of the latest developments in their field.
Cardiology Group Uses Web as Marketing Tool and for Patient Education
This article looks at how Web sites can be used to market services as well as to educate patients and offers words of caution on e-mail patient communication.
Physicians Seek to Maintain Autonomy
This column discusses how six pediatric groups and a solo practitioner in Tampa, Fla., merged their practices and the lessons they learned in doing so.
Focusing on Quality, Plan Aims to Cut "Medically Necessary" Hospital Days
Typically, "quality" initiatives in managed care aim to reduce expenditures for medically unnecessary care. Group Health Northwest, a large managed care organization based in Spokane, Wash., has succeeded with just such a program. GHNW administrators realized that even greater benefits-for both patients and the plan itself-would be possible
Southeastern States Seek Physicians, But Experts Say Rural Practice Is Not for All
Turmoil in health care has left many physicians-both recent medical school graduates and long-time practitioners-struggling. Many are bewildered and embittered by the effect managed care has had on the practice of medicine and unsure about where to turn now that many of the traditional doors opening to
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