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Practice owner retirement planning
Are you actively planning for your retirement or will you “work until you drop”? Healthcare practice owners are no exception to the habit of business owners (and people in general) in delaying the planning of their own retirement. Many just have enough time in a day to take care of patients, address a few management issues and go home to live their personal lives. There isn’t much time for long-term planning – especially something as distant as…
Change Management Key to EMR Implementation
I have assisted with Electronic Medical Records (EMR) roll-out into a number of small to medium sized healthcare clinics. Careful planning and management of these projects is important for successful EMR implementation and seems to become even more critical as the number of employees in a practice rises. I came face-to-face with this recently as I assisted with the implementation of an IT infrastructure and a software package into a 7 physician practice with 33 employees. Planning, management, and communication at all…
