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  • What Healthcare Can Learn from Baseball

    In the recent book-turned-movie Moneyball, Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Beane and his analytic sidekick bury themselves in lists of player statistics. The challenge was translating all that data into meaningful action – using that information to win. Baseball is a great example of information overload, and like baseball, the healthcare sector is suffering from information overload. Fortunately, healthcare providers and organizations can learn from the sport that is known as America’s Pastime.

  • Savvy vs Senseless: Using Remote Employees

    Hiring employees who work from home or in a different office may seem to some healthcare providers like a great way to get non-hands-on functions accomplished while reducing overhead and other expenses for their practice. On the other hand, other providers may find the idea off-putting and completely impractical. Here, MOT talks with a number of experts to evaluate whether using remote employees is savvy or senseless.

  • Physician Texting: Pitfalls & Pointers

    The appeal of text messaging from a physician-standpoint is clear, and physician texting can benefit patients, as well. Yet, physicians who use text messaging also face serious risks; therefore, physicians weighing these hazards may reasonably decide that the speed and ease of text messaging just isn’t worth it.

  • Exploring Web-based Credentialing for Physicians & Staff

    In order to participate with any health plan, hospital, or government health program, providers and their staff must prove their identity and their qualifications to provide required health services. Providers are completing as many as 17 different paper applications each year and the burden becomes unbearable.

  • 10 New Year's Resolutions for Medical Practices

    Just as we make New Year’s resolutions in our personal lives, it’s a wise business move to create some for your practice, as well. As old-fashioned and ill-fated as they may seem, they help you and your staff start off the new year on the right track.