Statement to the press by WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan 11 June 2009 World now at the start of 2009 influenza pandemic Dr Margaret Chan Director-General of the World Health Organization Ladies and gentlemen, In late April, WHO announced the emergence of a...
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Best Practices in Developing an Orientation Program for Your New Medical Practice Employees
My personal list of new employee orientation best practices has been shaped by my experiences in private practices as well as hospitals. Every organization has different resources to draw upon, but each group has core goals that must be fulfilled by a good...
Where I’ve Been and Where I’m Going
I hope that I am fortunate enough to have been missed by my readers while on an unintentional sabbatical these last several weeks. I have been moving to my new home in North Carolina and starting a new job. Our house temporarily has no television, no land line, no...
More Practice Management Resources to Help You Get Your Community Illness Plan in Place
Now is the time to follow-up on those good intentions of yours to make sure your swine flu/pandemic illness policy is all that is should be. Things are calming down a bit (although US numbers are rising, cases are mild) and as we might have a bit of calm before the...
Lockbox
A term referring to a service that: collects mail delivered to a special practice Post Office Box (typically only payments) opens the mail and discards the envelopes separates the checks from the accompanying paperwork scans or copies the checks and the accompanying...
TED
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design. TED started in 1984 as an annual conference held in Long Beach, California with the goal of bringing together people from the three fields to give 18-minute talks about innovation and possibilities. The TED Talks...
Can Your Employees Change If You Don’t Believe They Can?
Most of us have heard that interviewers make up their minds about applicants in the first minutes, or even seconds of an interview. But what about once the applicant has been hired, or even once an employee has been with us for several years? Do we base our beliefs...
Voice Recognition
Voice recognition (VR), sometimes called speech recognition (SR), is a technology that translates the spoken word into the written/electronic word. In healthcare it is most commonly used for physician notes in the medical record. The physician dictates the...
Gorilla on the Basketball Court
A short film demonstrating the "surprising limits of perception, attention, and awareness." Viewers are instructed to count bounces or baskets made by one team, and in doing so, completely miss that a person in a gorilla suit walks among the players! Viewers are...
CfC (Conditions for Coverage)
UPDATE: 2/11/2010 Clarification on H&P Requirement Prior To ASC Procedure (Angela Mason-Elbert of CMS: "Each patient that is seen in an ASC must have a comprehensive medical history and physical assessment (H&P) not more than 30 days before the date of the...
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