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Issue Date: June 15, 2000
Health System Needs To Be Redesigned To Accommodate Aging Baby Boomers
In this interview, David Friend, MD, discusses his recent book, Healthcare.com: Rx for Reform, in which he argues that three concurrent forces are reshaping the health care system: aging baby boomers, technological advances, and an inadequate financing system.
Local Publicity Builds Patient Volume
This story offers guidelines for physicians who would like to market their practice through local newspapers. It suggests ways to develop a newsworthy topic and offers guidance on writing the story and getting it accepted for publication.
Merged Groups Seek New Efficiencies
This story discusses the problems and issues that occurred during the merger of a faculty practice plan at the University of Wisconsin and a community-based group practice.
Web Site Designed To Ease Access to Editorial Content
This editorial discusses how more and more physicians are using and relying on the Internet to access health care information. It also talks about how physicians can use the Web site for Practice Options to find answers to their practice-related questions.
Computer Network Saves Time, Money
This story discusses how a family practitioner in Florida has improved the efficiency of his practice while reducing costs by integrating an electronic medical records program and a voice recognition program into a fully integrated computer network.
Experts Say Telephone Is the Most Important Customer Service Tool
This story discusses how skillful telephone techniques can not enhance patients' perceptions of a practice, but even help to manage patients' expectations and reduce the likelihood of litigation.
Study Shows Surgeons Can Improve Informed-Decisionmaking Skills
This story discusses a recent study during which researchers analyzed clinical decisionmaking using audiotaped patient encounters with their doctors. The study found, according to one researcher, that "informed decisionmaking may fall short of a basic level of patient involvement in medical decisions."
Pneumonia Care Path Reduces Costs, While Maintaining Outcomes
This story discusses a recent study on the effectiveness of a critical pathway, or care pathway, for the treatment of pneumonia, which found that one such pathway could reduce hospitalizations without any negative effect on quality of care.
Ultrasound Center Combines Disciplines To Increase Quality
This story discusses how the endoscopic ultrasound center at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadephia combines the expertise of several specialists in order to improve patient care.
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