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August, 2006




   
William Branch, Jr., M.D.
Physician-patient communication 

Recent developments are driving a paradigm shift in medical education: training medical students, residents and practicing physicians in “best practice” communication skills, restoring the value of empathy and rapport-building between physicians and patients.


Hospitals collaborate to reduce diagnostic errors 

Efforts to define and identify pathology lab diagnostic testing errors, and to design and test interventions to reduce them.


   
Stephen S. Raab, M.D.

Build an effective website for your practice 

Providing information only scratches the surface of what you can do with your web site.


Choose your ASC partners wisely

The process of developing and operating an ASC is not so complex that physicians, with the assistance of experienced advisors, cannot successfully launch an ASC without the involvement of a hospital or management company.  

Liability risk reduction strategies for physicians

Risk management is not about defending lawsuits or claims. It is about safety, communication, analysis of data and creation and execution of tools to reduce those clusters of circumstances in the first place.


Electronic health record license agreements

The license agreement is the backbone of the relationship between the practice and the vendor. As with any other contract, some terms will be negotiable and some terms are non-negotiable. It is therefore essential to understand the impact of the license’s language on this relationship.


Four wealth buckets of capital

When people think about their wealth, they often ignore its accessibility, costs and vulnerability.

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