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Issue Date: March 30, 2000
Physicians Build a Practice on Imaging Technology
"Recognizing that it is difficult to motivate patients to make significant lifestyle changes based on the theoretical risk of disease, EBCT [electron-beam-computed tomography] scanning when combined with risk-factor analysis, offers an approach to diagnosing and managing pre-clinical CHD."
Internet May One Day Help Cut Overhead Costs
"Many Internet companies are helping physicians to outsource such functions as accounting, claims processing, credentialing, marketing, purchasing, payment verification, and prescribing at the point of care, among other tasks."
Group Uses E-Systems To Improve Care
"To take full advantage of the Web's potential, a physician's site must be interactive. It must allow users to send e-mail inquiries and other messages to you and must have a mechanism for responding. Such interaction creates a one-to-one connection, establishes the personal relationship customers want, and will distinguish you from other medical practices."
Internet Empowers Physicians, Patients
"While the Internet surely has helped spread health informataion quickly and efficiently, it may have a more important function in helping to restore Americans' faith in the health care industry."
Nurse-Consultant Believes NPs Can Enhance Primary Care Practice
"The bottom line in health care for us as Americans cannot be the bottom line of returning profits to shareholders. When more than 44 million people in our country are uninsured, when serious cuts in funding are being implemented, there seems to be something very wrong in not reutning any gains from 'cost-effective' strategies to the system and to the care of the people."
Lessons Learned From a Group's Demise
"The biggest warning sign that there was a problem with the PhyCor transaction should have been that no significant changes were made after the deal was signed. Physicians continued practicing the same way they always had, operating under the illusion that the practice would not change."
Physician Services Stocks in Decline
"Taken together, the stock prices of some of the largest companies in the physician and health care services market did not do well from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31. In fact, combined, the stock stock value of these large companies declined 32% in the fourth quarter."
Urologist Says: Take Charge of Your Practice
"There are four pillars of a successful practice and each one must be strong and effective. [The four essentials are:] satisfying patients, attracting new patients, motivating and rewarding staff, generating repeat referrals. Take any one of the pillars away and your practice will suffer."
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