The only available compendium of management topics, written by practising doctors for doctors of all grades and all specialties.

The only available compendium of management topics, written by practising doctors for doctors of all grades and all specialties.

Essentials of Physician Practice Management offers a practical reference for administrators and medical directors and provides a comprehensive text for those preparing for a career in medical administration, practice management, and health plan administration. Essentials of Physician Practice Management is filled with valuable insights into every aspect of medical practice management including operations, financial management, strategic planning, regulation and risk management, human resources, and community relations.

Healthcare managers ensure that the organization's mission is met, that its goals are achieved, and that the work is done right. This book provides you with the skills, knowledge, and confidence you need to be a successful healthcare manager. This book uses realistic scenarios, cases, and exercises to bring essential management concepts to life. You will learn how to handle management responsibilities such as delegating projects, making ethical decisions, resolving conflicts, defending a budget, and monitoring organizational performance. Also included are an overview of health law and a discussion of diversity issues that will prepare you to work in today's healthcare environment. Topics and techniques covered include: Evidence-based management Ethics Evaluating employees Diversity Decision making Change Teamwork Hiring and terminating Communication Delegation Motivating employees Managing conflicts Leadership Time management Program assessment Legal issues Instructor Resources: PowerPoint slides, discussion points for end-of-chapter questions, and a test bank. To see a sample, click on the Instructor Resource sample tab above.

This book is intended to be a roadmap towards a successful practice for medical students, residents, fellows, and doctors. This roadmap focuses on how to build and manage a medical practice, and can be applied regardless if the reader is employed, joins a small group, or if they are a doctor who decides to start their own practice. Part I covers the basic business concepts that every physician needs to know. Chapters emphasize the benefits that accrue to a physician who understands the basics of business. Part II provides a guide for doctors who are beginning a medical practice. The chapters define the various options for doctors’ employment such as solo practice, group practice, and academic medicine. The section also includes the process of negotiating contracts, identifying the advisers who help physicians become successful, and secure within their field and practice. The final part emphasizes strategies on how to build and grow a successful practice by covering topics such as hiring staff, employee motivation, creating a brand, gaining recognition, online reputation and presence, crisis management, integrating new technology, and work/life balance. The Business Basics of Building and Managing a Healthcare Practice serves as a valuable resource that helps doctors make a difference in the lives of their patients, as well as help them make good financial decisions.

Many of the chapters in this book deals with the principles of management to be applied by the hospital managers and administrators to guide them and make them understand their responsibilities. This book is briefly explains the important and essential aspects of hospital planning, design, organization of outpatient and inpatient departments, management of hospital human resources, maintenance of medical record section, hospital waste management like collection, segregation, transport and disposal of hospital waste products, management of hospital infection control system, marketing of health service, public relations in hospitals, ethics in medical practice and other various aspects of hospital administration which is useful ready guide for hospital administrators. This book will certainly help many doctors, hospital administrators, nurses, paramedical staff, hospital management post graduate students and other medical fraternity. Dr. D. L. Ramachandra

Enjoy new control of your practice, profits, people ... and life Is there formula for running a practice that focuses on healing while still letting you enjoy robust profitability and a personal life, too? Yes In fact, there are 31 "essentials" - concrete solutions that have been tested, refined and proven to make a difference by highly successful practices. Now, with 31 1/2 Essentials for Running Your Medical Practice you can start using these same ideas to streamline your own practice, contain costs, defuse conflicts, boost reimbursement and increase physician, staff and patient satisfaction.

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This essential guide provides a lifeline to authoritative, reliable information on medical management, giving you all the skills you need whether managing a junior colleague as a lead doctor, or running multidisciplinary consortia in the NHS or private sectors.Learn key skills from leadership, managing change, quality control, and project managemen