Mindset bugs in outpatient medicine: „We work together as a team!“

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it’s all about

The results of the IFABS Practice Management Tracker© show that for the most part there are no „real“ teams working in GP and specialist practices, only groups. As a result, practice owners negligently limit the efficiency and productivity of their operations, reduce the quality of patient care, increase costs and reduce their success. Viewed in aggregate, however, the performance of outpatient medicine as a whole also suffers as a result.

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Family and specialty practices: Targeted for success. A case study

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it’s all about

The complexity of practice management, with its multiple interdependencies among action areas, makes it difficult for practice owners to determine starting points for change, whether to eliminate perceived deficiencies or to develop the practice. The Opportunity Radar© offers a simple solution.

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Toxic mindsets in primary care and specialty practices: „I don’t have time.“

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it’s all about

The results of the IFABS company comparison-Tracker© for general practice, specialist practice and dental practice management make it clear that up to thirty percent of the time resources used in practice operations are wasted completely unnecessarily and that substantial creative freedom exists.

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The three reasons that are really holding back digitization in the ambulatory sector

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it’s all about

The transformation of work in primary care and specialty practices is making slow progress. Physician representatives and advocacy groups cite immature technology, unsatisfactory reimbursement and unresolved data privacy issues as the main reasons. But these aspects are not causal.

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The IFABS Business Comparison Tracker© for GP, Specialist and Dental Practice Management

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it’s all about

The IFABS Practice Comparison Tracker captures, documents and analyzes the practice management activities of primary care physicians, specialists and dentists along with the effects achieved. This long-term investigation procedure for macro and micro analysis of outpatient practice management is based on a dynamically developing collective of currently more than 15,000 Practice Management Operational Comparisons© conducted in medical and dental practices.

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Toxic mindsets: “Doctors who digitize their work are techies and tinkerers.”

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it’s all about

For most doctors in private practice, it is clear: colleagues who are already involved with digitisation – i.e. the possibilities outside the TI specifications – are technology freaks and tinkerers. But the reality is different: they are „normal“ physicians, but with foresight, innovative spirit and entrepreneurial qualities.

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Cooperation in business enterprises: The team concept is usually just a label, not a working reality

What it’s all about

One of the basic business principles that leads to secure achievement of goals and above-average work results – not only in companies, but also in institutions, associations or clubs – is excellently functioning teamwork. It ensures – regardless of whether project groups, departments or business units are involved – the activation of the maximum possible synergy of all those involved in the respective work process. This state of teamwork excellence does not arise automatically, but is the result of a number of determining factors that together form the best practice standard of teamwork. However, its attention is neglected in many companies.

This leads to the fact that more than 60% of the operational cooperation structures described as „team“ do not meet the requirements associated with the term.

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Fit for the Future: Controlling Family Practice and Specialist Practice Management with the Help of Indicators

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it’s all about

A smoothly functioning practice management is the central starting point for achieving all conceivable practice goals: reducing work pressure, increasing efficiency and productivity, further improving patient satisfaction, increasing success or securing the future. But how do practice owners succeed in aligning their management in this way, even in the context of dynamically changing working conditions?

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GP and specialist consultations: Are doctors driving their patients online?

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it’s all about

A recent study by the Bitkom umbrella organization shows that many patients are specifically looking for explanatory and further information on the Internet after their visits to the doctor. In addition to a fundamentally increased interest in health, medical professionals are responsible for this with patient conversations in Twitter format.

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Future of the medical practice: Clear need for development of in-house physician cooperations

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it’s all about

A key prerequisite for smooth practice management functionality in practices with multiple physicians is that the medical team largely harmonizes in its leadership and management behavior and „pulls in the same direction.“ Disruptions to harmony have a direct negative impact on teamwork and staff work performance.

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