Mastering the medical mindshift: moving away from medical time mismanagement

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it’s all about

An explorative evaluation of several hundred doctors’ documentation on the use of working time makes it clear that up to thirty per cent of the time resources used are wasted completely unnecessarily and that there is substantial room for manoeuvre.

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Medical mindshifting: why the USP is becoming so important for GPs and specialists

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it is all about

Up to now, only a few practice owners have taken care of the topic of the “Unique Selling Proposition” (USP) for their businesses. However, the urgency to have and communicate a clear position on this has clearly increased.

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Mastering the medical mindshift: Leadership as a success factor

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it’s all about

Factors that are decisive for the performance quality of a general practitioner or specialist practice, such as the commitment of the staff, their efficiency and productivity or the degree of patient orientation, are largely determined by the professionalism of the leadership. However, it is precisely in this important area of action that most practice owners weaken.

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Medical Mindshifting: The Success Principle of “Entrepreneurial Practice Management

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it’s all about

“I am a doctor, not a businessman!”: doctors in private practice have an extremely distant relationship to the term “business management”. This is mainly due to a profound misunderstanding, as most associate it solely with financial management (“…my tax consultant will take care of that…”), a primarily monetarily motivated medicine and / or demands for a rigorous economisation of the health care system. But the reality is different.

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Medical Mindshift: Avoid ineffective salami optimisations

What it’s all about

Most practice teams have been working for many years with the structures and processes they once established years ago. But many arrangements no longer fit the requirements. If problems become too big, mostly only symptom-oriented adjustments are made without looking at the system as a whole. In order to be able to act sustainably, general practitioners and specialists therefore need feedback on the quality of their practice management. A simple procedure helps.

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Practice management in transition: Instead of isolated parameter considerations, also analyse impact relationships

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it is all about

Practice management comparisons are not only able to determine key performance indicators (KPIs) for the quality of practice management, but also impact relationships. Example.

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Mastering the medical mindshift: Optimising practice management quality in doctor networks

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it’s all about

The performance of doctors’ networks for optimised patient care is largely determined by the practice management quality of the members. However, there are still significant performance reserves in this area. Two indicators help network managers to develop their cooperations accordingly.

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Mastering the medical mindshift: Up to a third of working time is wasted

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it’s all about

Efficiency and productivity are – as practice management comparisons and work analyses show – only sub-standard in many GP and specialist practices due to misalignments in practice management.

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Mastering the medical mindshift in medical care centres: from team wish to reality

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it’s all about

Practice management indicators, the key performance indicators (KPI), make it possible to condense the complexity of practice management in medical care centres, to make the circumstances and interactions of the action areas manageable, to diagnose the performance status, to identify unused performance reserves and to control the management in a targeted manner.

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Professional, easy to implement and success-determining: The Teamwork Assessment for GP and Specialist Practices

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it’s all about

Agile and team-based practice management enables medical practices to meet the changes and challenges of health care with confidence. But unfortunately, real teams work in very few practices.

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