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Today's
office manager faces many challenges in managing a medical practice.
He or she must be sure that the office is providing quality patient
care, receives the compensation to which it is entitled, is efficient
and cost effective, and has policies and procedures in place to
satisfy a host of regulatory agencies. Furthermore, the office manager
must be able to enforce those policies and procedures while at the
same time nurturing and encouraging a spirit of teamwork within
the medical staff.
Today,
many office managers are frustrated meeting these challenges due
to the overwhelming amount of paperwork being generated by basic
office operations and the endless demands of information by the
outside world. It often seems impossible to reconcile all of these
demands with the patient's demand for immediate and better care
at a more affordable price.
To
meet these overwhelming demands, the office manager needs a complete
Practice Management tool, a tool that allows him or her to rapidly
access information vital to the successful running of a medical
practice. Such a tool must report the financial health of the practice
at a glance, must pinpoint any problem areas, and then provide the
means to correct the problem and prevent recurrences. Such a tool
must be flexible enough to meet the specific needs of the provider's
specialty and practice while still maintaining industry standards.
And of course, such a tool must simplify and satisfy both Federal
and State regulations.
In
summary, such a tool must encompass all that a practice does, yet
also deliver concise information enabling rapid decision-making
in the fast-paced medical environment of today.
We
at Ulrich Medical Concepts have that tool. It is
called the Team Chart Concept,
and, believe it or not, it was co-designed, developed, tested, and
implemented, from the beginning, by office managers sitting elbow-to-elbow
with the physicians and the programmers. In fact, it would not be
the powerful tool that it is today without the tireless input, vision,
and stamina of several office managers.
The
office manager of today straddles a unique position in the practice
of medicine. Perhaps no one sees the entire needs of the medical
office like him or her. Now, finally, there is a tool that can live
up to the challenges faced by the medical office manager.
To
see how The Team Chart Concept
can be the complete Practice Management AND Electronic Medical Records
'tool' that puts your office on top of these challenges, we invite
you to browse our web site, or call us for more information and
a personal demonstration.
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The Office Manager
