I just participated in my first webinar and really enjoyed discussing the 2008 MGMA Annual Conference with colleague Marshall Maglothin and FierceHealthcare.com Editor-in-Chief Anne Zieger.  Click here to register with FierceHealthcare and launch the webinar.  My part starts at about 16 minutes.
Let me know what you thought about the conference.

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I’ve always wanted to go on a cruise and recently I did when I found a great price on the internet.  A cruise has always seemed to me to be the ultimate escape - no cell phone, no computer, no deadlines! I was amazed that I could get a wonderful trip (5 days, 4 nights) [...]

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Another week, another barrage of interesting and helpful items on the web.  I hope you enjoy today’s selections!
Getting Warmed Up: Employees Walk While They Work (Call it innovation in the staff wellness/insurance premium reduction program arena.)
This next resource comes with a “R” rating, because it gives you the word of the day and it covers [...]

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Most people who ask what I do have never heard of managing medical practices.  Many people say “I didn’t know there was a job like that.”  Medical Group Management Association’s (MGMA) definition of medical group practice and medical practice management is helpful:
Medical group practice is defined as three or more physicians engaged in the practice [...]

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An article authored by Kurt Cagle, online editor for O’Reilly Media, does a great job exploring telework which he defines as
…employees and contract workers performing their work out of the office - from home, from distributed work centers, from coffee-shops, indeed, from wherever those workers may happen to be at the time.
Probably the [...]

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Google Health announced today that the newest version of its patient-managed medical record is accessible to visually-impaired users.  Using voice prompts and auditory icons, users of assistive technology are now able to open Google Health profiles and populate them with their own medical information including vitals, conditions, medications, allergies, procedures, test results and immunizations.
Assistive technology [...]

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Have you ever discovered a new software shortcut you can use that improves your efficiency?  Or someone is working with you and shows you a faster way to do something?  What a great moment and a great feeling of success that is - it’s almost like winning a prize!
Sometimes I’ll be working with Excel and [...]

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David Williams has a podcast/transcripted interview with Nuance Communications’ Keith Belton on the new release of Dragon Medical.  Here’s the pertinent information straight from the interview:

allows physicians to navigate their EMR via speech command and to dictate anywhere in the EMR
20 percent more accurate out of the box than Dragon Medical 9
first industrial strength version [...]

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He said, “I’m looking for a doctor that uses email.”  He said he would not use a doctor that doesn’t use email because he doesn’t have the time to fool around on the phone when he needs an appointment or has a question.  Of course, in the practice, we don’t have time to fool around [...]

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What have you done for your career lately?  Are you comfortable in your current job?  Are you happy?  Happy with your income?  Happy with your level of challenge?  What would you do if you lost your job tomorrow?
Do yourself a favor and invest a little time in your future.
At WordCamp recently, Lorelle VonFossen said “You [...]

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