Heal Thy Practice 2010: How to Go From Bad Dream to Dream Practice

Holistic Primary Care's Heal Thy Practice-Transforming Primary Care conference, June 10-13, in Charlotte, NC, is a forum for sharing successful strategies, learning from past mistakes, finding inspiration, and gaining practical skills for creating a financially-viable practice offering patients high-quality, compassionate, comprehensive care.
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Guidance on EHR Selection & Implementation

TransforMED's "EHR Preparation & Selection Service," a joint venture with Welch Allyn, offers physicians three distinct packages designed to fit any medical practice's needs and budget. EHR Prep-Select is a low-cost, do-it-yourself program organized into 10 comprehensive steps that are easy to manage and execute.
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Fed Stimulus Offer Carrots to Doctors Going Digital, but HITECH Wields Sticks

The federal stimulus package has put a lot of money on the table to encourage doctors to embrace electronic medical records – as much as $44,000 per practice. But new and more restrictive security regulations could be a major buzz-kill.
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Primary Care Gains, While Specialists Feel Recession’s Bite

While it’s hardly a boom time, primary care groups showed slight to significant gains in total revenue during the first year of the recession, while most specialist groups showed losses. [ ...Read More]

New Survey Shows Physicians Groups Prefer Medicare to Privates

Doctors may not exactly love Medicare, but a new survey shows they prefer it to the big private insurance plans when it comes to matters like payer communications, contract negotiation, payment processing, and overall satisfaction. [ ...Login to Read More]

Heal Thy Practice 2010: Platforms for Preventive Health Care

For too many physicians, primary care practice feels like a shoe that just doesn’t fit. Like bewitched sisters in the children’s story, Cinderella, they’re cutting off parts of their feet in order to fit the shoes they believe they must wear.

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Corporate Wellness Programs Help Employees But Leave Doctors in the Dark

The nation’s big corporations are going to great lengths to get employees to exercise, lose weight, eat better and quit smoking. But all-too-often these corporate wellness programs don’t engage employees' physicians.

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Anatomy of an Informed Consent Form

In this first of an ongoing series of articles offering medicolegal guidance for holistic/integrative practitioners, legal expert Alan Dumoff provides insight into the value of informed consent, and provides guidelines for drafting effective and protective informed consent forms.

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From "Clinical Facility" to "Garden of Healing": Creating a Healing Environment for Your Patients

The specific treatment a doctor gives is only a small part of the total clinical experience. The key to creating an effective healing experience is to create a vision that reaches below the surface of conscious awareness, where 95% of what we take in is processed. To give patients a nurturing, healing experience, we need to create nurturing, compassionate, empowering input that touches people on many different levels.

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Institute of Medicine's Summit on Integrative Medicine: Revolution! Reform! Reimbursement?

Revolution and reform were major themes at the Institute of Medicine's historic Summit on Integrative Medicine and the Public Health. But it's another "R" word reimbursement that will determine what a reformed, integrated system will really deliver. IOM delegates called for a radical shift toward prevention and "wellness" but no one is sure how that transformation will be financed.

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