(919) 370 0504
A great column in last week's BusinessWeek by Carmine Gallo gives the reader 4 steps to making difficult conversations with employees and coworkers more productive. I like his steps, but I have four of my own, and I'll let you choose which works for you. Read...
When we first moved to the west coast, I was stunned to find that people routinely take two weeks of vacation off AT ONE TIME! On the east coast, my experience had been that taking more than a week off was reserved for getting married or going to Europe. Amazingly,...
Sometimes it's hard to figure out what to pay attention to. There are projects, staffing, budgets, contracts, technology, Medicare cuts and on and on. While I'm trying to pay close attention to this stuff, along comes a program that I should have paid attention to and...
Under the category of using existing software for new purposes, radiologists at Renji Hospital and Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine are using iTunes to house and sort medical PDFs of images and research documents. Download Squad has the story here.
Here is a VERY succinct performance evaluation that I’ve used for years. Called 5 Questions, the employee completes it, submits it to the manager, then they discuss and refine it together during the evaluation interview. Here are the questions: What goals did you...
I turned 50 Friday. It was a BIG birthday. I wanted it to be BIG. I invited friends to the house. My husband ordered wine and practiced smoking pork three times to make sure it would be perfect for The Day. We hired a Yard Guy to clean us up. I bought potted flowers...
Here's some information you probably already knew, but might have forgotten. After ten minutes of a presentation, the majority of an audience (your staff, your docs, your board, your referrers) tune out, or rather, their brains turn off. BusinessWeek's Carmine Gallo...
NOTE: This post won't make a bit of sense unless I tell you that my blog used to be called "healthpromeme." A bunch of people told me they didn't get it and couldn't remember it, so I changed it! A number of people have asked about the name of this blog. My mother...
HIStalk (an interesting healthcare IT blog written anonymously) has a great interview with Michael Nissenbaum, President and CEO of iMedica. Nissenbaum speaks about his 10 years in the field with Millbrook, GE and now iMedica, talks about Misys leasing the iMedica EHR...
The Manage My Practice Blog keeps our readers up to date with the latest healthcare news, trends and analysis.
Get in touch