Take Back Time: Bringing Time Management to Medicine($22.83Value)

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Cure your practice's chronic crisis management syndrome. Do constant disruptions, priority shifts, scheduling nightmares, rising costs, coding errors, reimbursement hassles and spiking workloads have everyone in your medical practice working harder yet accomplishing less? Take back control. In her newest book, nationally recognized healthcare consultant Judy Capko reveals simple, affordable and amazingly effective time management secrets for improving the patient experience, empowering staff, creating a smoother, more successful practice ... and enjoying a more satisfying personal life, too. Practical, proven time management strategies drawn from successful large, small, and major academic faculty practices nationwide A win-win focus on quickly defusing conflicts, clearing hurdles and building confidence to create lasting rewards for physicians, practice managers, staff, and patients Ready-to-use tools, including checklists, grids, comparison charts, efficiency-boosting office floor plans, suggestions for patient pre-visit forms and more Real-world examples of where and why time management problems arise in medical practices (including a tactic commonly used to curtail staff s personal use of phones and the Internet that can actually cost a practice $20,000 in lost productivity) Take Time tips that follow up each chapter with specific action items SELECTED TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: Are You Being Sabotaged How to audit your practice and habits to lower stress and raise performance. Chapter 2: Can We Talk? How to use good communications to get more done ... more easily. Chapter 3: Those Maddening Phones How to give systems and people more control over calls, call-backs, and virtual patients. Chapter 4: The Sensible Schedule How to stay on time, manage workload, and minimize the impact of missed appointments. Chapter 5: Get It Right! How to improve quality, eliminate steps, and position your practice for Pay 4 Performance. Chapter 6: Make The Most Of Staff How to empower staff, defuse conflicts, fast-track learning and create a can-do culture. Chapter 7: Virtually Yours How to use Internet and mobile technologies to streamline everything from patient exams to communicating inside the practice. Chapter 8: Your Partner - The Patient How to use practice tools, people skills and technology to turn patients into true partners. Chapter 9: Mine The Business How to build a better practice by using business intelligence, benchmarks, and dashboards to improve focus and decision-making. Chapter 10: Get Back Your Life How to balance demands and set healthy boundaries that keep you from becoming stressed, exhausted, and a workaholic Chapter 11: From This Day Forward How to use new-found control at work as a springboard for greater personal freedom to pursue passions and make a difference. Historically, the practice of medicine has been reactionary. With the tools in Take Back Time, Judy Capko has provided the opportunity for the health care industry to become proactive with time management skills. By utilizing the recommendations in this book, the reader can end the feeling of being in crisis mode. Charlene Burgett,MS-HCM,CMA,CMM,CPC,CCP,CMSCS Administrator North Scottsdale Family Medicine PAHCOM National Advisory Board Amazing! Judy Capko has outdone herself again with this new book. She has proven that she has a complete, global understanding of the practice of medicine, much more so than physicians. She is able to verbalize our day-to-day limitations/frustrations and offer simple, comprehensive solutions, making the medical office more efficient while saving money. This book is a must-have for any medical office seeking to rise above the competition and deliver the best patient satisfaction possible. Peterson Pierre, MD Pierre Skin Care Institute Thousand Oaks, CA Finally, a book that addresses the number one issue facing physicians not enough time. Judy Capko presents an oasis of ideas and techniques for the stressed out physician to survive and bring balance (and even joy) back to the practice of medicine. Randy Bauman President, Delta Health Care Brentwood, TN Love it! As usual Judy has taken a commonsense approach to one of our biggest problems time management with a rock solid message for overworked physicians and office managers. Carol Aiken, CMM Manager, Quality Control & Process Improvement, Huntsville Hospital PAHCOM National Advisory Board Judy Capko reminds us that regardless of who you are, where you are or what you do, an hour, YOUR hour has 60 minutes in it. This book offers a wealth of information and tools that will help you increase your productivity and efficiency. It is time to take charge of your day and your career! Cynthia L. Dunn, RN, FACMPE, Senior Consultant, MGMA Health Care Consulting Group, Englewood, CO In a very practical way, that is Judy Capko s trademark, she has provided a roadmap to help me be a better physician, more effective manager, and most importantly, more time to really