Recent Articles

• The end is near: Are you on track to meet your goals?

  Jill Nesbitt Oral & Dental Healthcare

  I assume you have goals — written down, measurable, deadline-driven, goals. At the minimum, you have a goal for what you would like to produce each year, right? Collections as well? How about a new patient goal? Overhead? Recall rate? Case acceptance? Here we are in mid-December, just a couple weeks away from the end of the year — a great time to take a look at all your goals to see if you're on track.

• Reactions mixed to announced meaningful use changes

  Pamela Lewis Dolan Healthcare Administration

  ​A new proposed timeline for the meaningful use incentive program for electronic health record use was announced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. The change came with mixed reaction from many healthcare member organizations advocating for more flexibility in the incentive program. It was also met with some initial confusion over what the revised timeline means.

• Study: Women employees suffer more in workplaces with gender inequality

  Tim Stroud

  According to a recent study, female employees have a higher incidence of psychological distress than their male colleagues in workplaces where there is gender inequality (more men than women). The study begs the question: Would workplaces with a higher level of gender inequality benefit from an employee assistance program/plan?

• Full tilt: The future of helicopter design leaning to propellers

  Mark Huber Transportation Technology & Automotive

  The future of helicopters is ... propellers! The Pentagon recently awarded initial development contracts for the Joint Multi-Role (JMR) Future Vertical Lift program, and all of the winning designs were compound helicopter designs. That is, they had the ability to take off and land like helicopters but fly with the speed of slow jet or fast turboprop airplanes.

• Porsche B32: The Porsche camper van that almost happened

  Conner Golden Recreation & Leisure

  Ah, the Volkswagen Vanagon. For me, the name "Vanagon" conjures up images of a strung-out family camper, struggling to reach the crest of the hill on some Colorado back road. Sure, it was not hill-climber, but it was a fun runabout for a family vehicle. You could get all the kids, cargo, luggage and the dog in the back, and still have room to spare. It offered something for everyone! Why, you could even buy one with a Porsche engine. Wait, what?

• 3 ways an EMR can boost your compliance confidence

  Heidi Jannenga

  ​Feeling confident about compliance is rare among most healthcare professionals — and that includes rehab therapists. Of course, most PTs know the terms “therapy cap,” “​functional limitation reporting,” “​PQRS,” and “​the 8-minute rule,” but few can say with confidence that they are fully compliant — especially without the help of electronic medical records.

• The elusiveness of good governance

  John T. Dinner Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  The achievement of good governance is elusive due to challenges that typically confront and often confound boards. These challenges tend to be somewhat common across organizations and typically relate to difficulties with sharing power, delegating authority and group decision-making. These issues, in turn, are most often related directly to the extent to which trust and confidence exists between the various boardroom players.

• Back to work: How to start 2014 right

  Jessica Taylor Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  As you go through the rush of the holidays and entertaining guests, the last thing on your mind is work. But as you return to your office for the new year and see the pile of work, unanswered emails and missed calls on your phone, it can become overwhelming.

• Wellness tourism continues growth into $439 million industry

  Bambi Majumdar Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

  The rapid rise shows that more people are opting for focused tours and trips that will directly benefit their health in some way. The figures also show that almost 14 percent of all domestic and international tourism expenditures can be attributed to wellness tourism. The umbrella term includes medical tourism and hotel/resort/destination spas. The industry is expected to grow at 9.9 percent per year and reach the figure of $678.5 billion by 2017.

• Promotional tools designed as surveys

  Jeffrey Dobkin Marketing

  Surveys are useful for gathering all kinds of marketing data, and when they're completed they make great birdcage liners. Oh, did you want clients to provide you with useful data? Forget it, that's not what they're good for. Unless you mail a bajillion of them, results are unreliable. Surveys do get high readership, so use it as a promotional tool. Acquaint prospects and customers with your company, new products or your services. Even reacquaint your old products and services. The important part is by simply reading your survey, they'll keep you in the top of their mind and learn about your newest offers. Let me explain a few unusual survey techniques.

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