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Practice Management


Friday's Progress Notes- May 12, 2000
Mental Health Information - Vol. 4 Issue 14
Published by athealth.com - http://www.athealth.com

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CONTENTS

1. Including patients in treatment decisions
2. Improving your communication with patients
3. Working with a graphic designer
4. Providing treatment to children in remote areas
5. Protecting your practice from fraud and abuse charges
6. Risk management
7. Guarding against professional burnout


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Dear Colleagues,

Patients are accessing medical information via the Internet in record numbers. Issues related to mental health are among the most researched categories on the Web. Recent studies show that people prefer to get their online health information from their own health care providers.

How does the Internet fit into your practice plans? Will you use it to market your practice? Offer patient education? Assist patients in managing their care? Run your practice? Obtain continuing education? Communicate with patients and colleagues? The Internet has the potential to help with all of these things.

Please feel free to forward this information to professional colleagues, who can sign-up for a free subscription to Friday's Progress Notes at http://www.athealth.com/Practitioner/Newsletter/fpn_subscribe.html

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Regards,
Jack

John L. Miller, MD

1. EFFECTIVE CLINICAL PRACTICE
What Do Patients Want? Help in Making Effective Choices
I want to be a rational patient. To do that, my physicians need to help me understand the probability and magnitude of the good and bad things that can happen to me, as a result of taking - or rejecting - possible treatments.
http://www.acponline.org/journals/ecp/julaug99/fischoff.htm

2. AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS (AAFP)
Improving Patient Communication in No Time
Patients who understand their health problems are more satisfied with their care and more committed to their treatment. Patient educational materials help people understand their care.
http://www.aafp.org/fpm/990500fm/23.html

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3. SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL CONSULTANTS
Working Effectively with Graphic Designers
Working with a designer can be intimidating, but if you are careful in your selection of and forthcoming in your discussions with graphic designers, you'll have a much better chance at getting materials you really like.

4. APA MONITOR ON PSYCHOLOGY
Taking Time and Space Out of Service Delivery
Dr. Stephen Sulzbacher's telehealth practice provides behavioral treatments to children in rural communities.

5. APA MONITOR ON PSYCHOLOGY
How to Protect Your Practice from Fraud and Abuse Charges
The Department of Justice has named the reduction of health-care fraud, abuse, and mis-billing, intentional or otherwise, as a top priority. Here's advice on how to take more care with claims submissions to cut the risk of enforcement actions.
http://www.apa.org/monitor/feb00/claims.html

6. ATHEALTH.COM
Risk Management: Interview with Bryant Welch, JD, PhD
Dr. Welch answers questions about risk management and how mental health practitioners can protect themselves against professional liability exposure.
http://www.athealth.com/Practitioner/BryantWelch.html

7. FAMILY PRACTICE MANAGEMENT
Overcoming Compassion Fatigue
Sound advice for health care professionals who are under significant physical and emotional practice demands.
http://www.aafp.org/fpm/20000400/39over.html


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