by Mary Pat Whaley | Aug 3, 2008 | A Career in Practice Management, Human Resources, Memes
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,...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 31, 2008 | Medicare & Reimbursement
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...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 30, 2008 | Innovation
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...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 24, 2008 | Human Resources
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...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 12, 2008 | Human Resources
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...
