• FEATURES

    The 2009 EHR User Satisfaction Survey: Responses From 2,012 Family Physicians

    Robert L. Edsall, Kenneth G. Adler

    If you're shopping for an EHR system, you might appreciate this advice from a couple of thousand colleagues.

    10 Steps to a Patient-Centered Medical Home

    ANTON J. KUZEL

    Start with steps that increase practice revenue. Then you'll be better able to afford the steps that just make practice better and more satisfying.

    “Vital Signs” for Assessing Your Practice's Financial Health

    Keith Borglum

    Paying attention to key metrics can help keep your practice operationally and financially healthy.

    FROM THE EDITOR

    Step-by-Step Practice Transformation

    Robert Edsall

    Can you walk there, or do you need to fly?

    OPINION

    Creating a High-Quality, Low-Cost Health Care System: Lessons From Grand Junction, Colorado

    Roger Shenkel, Greg Reicks

    Good things happen when physicians collaborate and have a health plan that supports their efforts.

    CODING & DOCUMENTATION

    CODING & DOCUMENTATION

    Cindy Hughes

    H1N1 vaccinations | H1N1 sick visits | Medicare's limiting charge

    PRACTICE PEARLS

    PRACTICE PEARLS

    Ku-Lang Chang, Phil Lawson, Doug Iliff, Robert M. Wolfe

    Ensure smooth phone triage of flu patients | Chalk up this idea in your practice | Respond calmly to anxious patients | Connect to your patients with Facebook | Lengthen the life of your laptop battery | Divide workload fairly for covering physicians

    THE LAST WORD

    What If Quiznos Were Run Like Health Care?

    Timothy Laird

    Good luck getting paid for those chips and sandwiches at the time of service.



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