Monthly Focus: Practice Management

Articles:

Lise Alschuler, ND, FABNO

• If Not Endorsement, Tolerance At Least, Please 
• The Politics of Transforming Healthcare
• The Partnership in Integrated Practice
• Strategies for Integrating Your Practice - Naturopathic Medicine and Integrated Healthcare
• Integrative Versus Integrated – What is the Difference and Why is this Important?
• Integrated Medicine: It’s All About the Patient

Randi Drinkwater

• The Future Looks Bright... Step Into the Light
• What Do Top Practitioners Know About Getting More Clients Than They Can Handle?

Jeremy R. Geffen, MD, FACP

• Time Management and the Parable of the Mayonnaise Jar

The Journal of Medical Practice Management

• 10 Ways to Give Your Office a Face-Lift 
• Age to Age: Insight into Managing a Multigenerational Staff 
• Better Off Alone? Why Physicians Don’t Merge 
• Consumer-Driven Health Plans: Latest Challenge to Practices’ Cash Flow 
• Educate Patients on Billing Policies to Improve Your Bottom Line 
• How a Successful Litigator Decides Whether or Not to Sue You 
• How to Perform Your Own Practice Operational Assessment 
• Practice Management Secrets: Get Personal with Customer Service 
• Self Assessment for Practices Considering Electronic Medical Record Systems 
• Six Elements for Creating a Framework for Employee Motivation and Performance 
• Why Your Practice Must Do Background Checks 
• Working with Patients with Physical Disabilities

Sharon Ufberg, DC

• Practitioner as Patient, Who is Taking Care of Us? 
• How Happy Are We?
• Delivering the Care... A Better Way? 
• An Open-Minded View 
• A New Commitment for the New Year 
• Collaboration is at the Core of Healing 
• Day One at the Integrative Center… 
• The Journey to an Integrative Practice

Karol Ward, LCSW

• Communicating Your Integrative Healthcare Services: Creating Presentations “For the Ear”
• Communicating Your Integrative Healthcare Services
• Helping Patients Tune Into Their Bodies to Decide Which Movement is Best for Healing

Companies:

• Alternative Growth Streams, Inc.
• Compass Natural Marketing
• The Courtyard Market
• Modern Times Marketing

Discussions:

• Marketing Your Practice
  • Marketing advice on getting patients/clients to keep coming back and not returning to the sole care of their M.D
  • Tips for getting free coverage with newspapers, radio and even television
  • Is it really that important that my website look good as long as it tells someone the details about my practice?
• Work Satisfaction
  • "Compassion fatigue"--how are you handling it?
  • Are you satisfied with your work?
• Practice Management
  • Attracting Referrals
  • Cash Practice for Integrative Medicine Services
  • Integrative healthcare..the "new medicine"
• Marketing Forum - Growing Your Practice (Aug. 6-Oct.1; Read only)

Events:

• Teleconference: Using Online Communities, Blogs and Social Networks to Support Your Integrative Practice (listen to the archived recording)