Evidence-Based Medical Monitoring: From Principles to Practice
October 21, 2008 | Comments Off
Monitoring is a major component of management of chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, arthritis and depression. Yet poor monitoring means healthcare costs are rising.
This book discusses how monitoring principles adopted in other spheres such as clinical pharmacology and evidence-based medicine can be applied to chronic disease in the global setting. With contributions from leading experts in evidence-based medicine, it is a ground-breaking text for all involved in delivery of better and more effective management of chronic illnesses.
Workbook, Volume 3 for Paramedic Care: Principles and Practices, Volume 3: Medical Emergencies
October 19, 2008 | Comments Off
High Tech Medicine:: Building Your Medical Practice with Computers and the Internet (Medicine/Business/Computers)
October 19, 2008 | Comments Off
This timely book is a practical, easy-to-use guide to using computers and web-based resources to improve all aspects of a medical practice.Expertly blending critical issues in technology, practice management, and patient care, Mindi McKenna helps professionals make the most effective use of todays digital toolkit.Filled with tables, charts, checklists, templates, diagrams, and samples of key web sites, the book covers ever practice areafrom professional development and medication management systems to online resources for patient education.McKenna provides clear, critical introductions to electronic solutions for everything from patient records and claims processing to accessing online clinical trial resources and building an online patient-provider communication system. She also explains such key issues as privacy and security, and helps healthcare professionals make basic decisions about selecting hardware and software.
Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice Pocket Guide: Medical-Surgical Nursing (Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice Pocket Guides)
October 17, 2008 | Comments Off
Customer Review: Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice Pocket Guide: Medical-Surgical Nursing (Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice Pocket Guide
This book was sent as a gift to my nephew who is a nursing student. I was advised that it was an excellent reference book.
Student Workbook for Paramedic Care: Principles & Practice, Volume 3, Medical Emergencies
October 17, 2008 | Comments Off
Think Business! Medical Practice Quality, Efficiency, Profits
October 15, 2008 | Comments Off
Foreword by David B. Nash, MD, MBA, FACP If you own, run, or have anything to do with a medical practice, you must read this book. Today the practice of medicine must be recognized as a business. No longer can the business of the practice be based on the intuition of the physician or office manager. This exciting book from Greenbranch Publishing promises a new way for physicians and administrators to look at the medical practice. Owen Dahl decodes business theories and applies them to today’s medical practice. Filled with winning techniques, Think Business! will teach you the following: -Financial fundamentals - how to keep tabs on the practice -Employees as assets: how to recruit and retain them -How to differentiate your practice from your competition -Setting the stage for pay-for-performance and quality of care -Why medical staff should care about satisfied patients and quality outcomes -Motivate employees to build great teams; it’s not only about the money! -Smart strategies to focus your practice as a business Packed with plenty of take-home value, you can count on Owen Dahl to provide you with the language, the players, and the management techniques to ensure success in your practice. It is time to bring solid business principles to the medical practice! And, running a profitable medical practice takes more than your staff’s strong clinical skills. Today’s practice is complex — declining reimbursement per patient or per procedure, complexity in managing the patient process, technology needs, decision-making processes to ensure optimal use of resources, outcomes management…and don’t forget the nuances of employee management!
Maximizing Billing and Collections in the Medical Practice
October 14, 2008 | Comments Off
Provides systematic approach to reviewing the billing and collections process to discover problems and prevent undue financial loss in today’s medical practice. This invaluable resource integrates the patient encounter with the billing and collections function to increase the likelihood of collecting every dollar the physician is entitled to receive. Sample tables, forms and reports are also included via cd-rom.
Customer Review: Excellent resource for broad billing perspective and control tools to maximize your collections
Paradoxically, physicians’ compensation has shrunk in spite of the dramatically rising wave of health care costs. Arcane billing terminology, continuous downward pressure on allowed fees, systematic invention of new reasons for underpayments and denials, coordinated drive to oligopsony, and escalating campaign for more post-payment audits, refunds, and penalties - that’s only a partial list of a growing arsenal designed by the insurers to increase their share value at the expense of health care providers.
This book focuses on designing accountable and transparent billing processes that firmly place control back into the hands of the practice owner. In contrast to many billing books that separate billing from the rest of practice operations, this book takes a broader all-encompassing perspective and provides an excellent set of tools to evaluate the efficacy of your billing. It uses an analytical approach to present concrete, practical information including procedures and policies that focus on setting up billing and collection, controlling patient payments, and handling third-party insurers. Multiple flowcharts, graphs, and tables elucidate the tremendous complexity of the billing process.
Don’t buy this book if you know your practice has already maximized its billing. Do buy this book and return to it frequently if you are looking for a text to help you design a process to maximize your billing and collections.
Yuval Lirov, Practicing Profitability - Billing Network Effect for Revenue Cycle Control in Healthcare Clinics and Chiropractic Offices: Collections, Audit Risk, SOAP Notes, Scheduling, Care Plans, and Coding
Bariatric Surgery: A Primer for Your Medical Practice
October 13, 2008 | Comments Off
Obesity is a serious and rapidly increasing medical problem. Bariatric surgery is the only effective long-term treatment for morbid obesity and the performance of this surgery has increased dramatically over the years.
Bariatric Surgery: A Primer for Your Medical Practice is a user-friendly, practical reference text that provides all the necessary information that the health care professional will need to assist in patient selection and preoperative assessment, as well as recommendations in dealing with complex postoperative care of the bariatric patient.
Dr. Francis A. Farraye and Dr. R. Armour Forse, joined by leading experts, review what is required by today’s practicing physician who will manage the care of obese adults.
Inside the chapters of Bariatric Surgery, along with numerous tables, images, and charts, you will find many crucial elements of bariatric surgery extensively and practically covered.
Bariatric Surgery is the perfect resource for the primary care physician, family practitioner, general internist, endocrinologist, nutritionist, gastroenterologist, radiologist, medical and surgical resident, and medical student.
Long awaited, Bariatric Surgery is the answer many are searching for today.
Some chapter topics:
- The medical management of obesity
- Types of bariatric surgery
- Assessments of patients prior to bariatric surgery
- Medical management of the patient after bariatric surgery
- Nutritional and psychological consequences of bariatric surgery
- Endoscopic and radiologic imaging
Virtues in Medical Practice
October 12, 2008 | Comments Off
In recent years, virtue theories have enjoyed a renaissance of interest among general and medical ethicists. This book offers a virtue-based ethic for medicine, the health professions, and health care. Beginning with a historical account of the concept of virtue, the authors construct a theory of the place of the virtues in medical practice. Their theory is grounded in the nature and ends of medicine as a special kind of human activity. The concepts of virtue, the virtues, and the virtuous physician are examined along with the place of the virtues of trust, compassion, prudence, justice, courage, temperance, and effacement of self-interest in medicine. The authors discuss the relationship between and among principles, rules, virtues, and the philosophy of medicine. They also address the difference virtue-based ethics makes in confronting such practical problems as care of the poor, research with human subjects, and the conduct of the healing relationship. This book with the author’s previous volumes, A Philosophical Basis of Medical Practice and For the Patient’s Good, are part of their continuing project of developing a coherent moral philosophy of medicine.
Paramedic Care: Principles and Practices, Volume 3: Medical Emergencies (2nd Edition) (Paramedic Care Principles & Practice Series)
October 12, 2008 | Comments Off
Written by the best-selling author team of Bryan E. Bledsoe D.O., F.A.C.E.P., EMT-P, Robert S. Porter M.A., NREMT-P, and Richard A. Cherry, M.S., NREMT-P, this student-friendly easy to understand series covers the DOT National Standard Curriculum. The third of 5 titles in the Brady Paramedic Care Principles and Practice series, Volume 3 - Medical Emergencies - covers pulmonology, cardiology, neurology, endocrinology, allergies and anaphylaxis, gastroenterology, urology and nephrology, toxicology and substance abuse, hematology, environmental emergencies, infectious diseases, psychiatric and behavorial emergencies, gynecology, and obstetrics. Paramedic Level Emergency Responders or Intermediate level responders training to enter into Paramedic.