Mastering the medical mindshift: the problem child of organizational quality

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it’s all about

The functionality of the practice organization significantly determines the possibilities of individual patient care, the economic success of the practice and the working conditions of the entire practice team. The results of the IFABS Business Comparison Tracker© for general practice, specialist and dental practice management show that organizational deficits exist in medical practices on a broad level.

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Business intelligence in GP and specialist practices: Every practice owner needs to know these five figures on practice management

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it’s all about

Business intelligence (BI) in a medical practice is an approach to collecting, analyzing and monitoring data to make informed decisions for practice management and patient care. The goal is to gain a better understanding of practice operations and performance to improve the bottom line and optimise patient service. Five indicators GPs and specialists use in particular.

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Toxic Mindsets in Ambulatory Medicine: „Leadership is time consuming.“

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it’s all about

Practice management business comparisons and work analyses show that „leadership-active“ practice owners save an average of twenty days per year in managing their staff compared to their „leadership-passive“ colleagues.

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Performance of medical care centres: Unused performance reserves in teamwork quality

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it’s all about

Practice management indicators, the key performance indicators (KPI), are needed 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.

Only those who know the performance data of their practice management can work successfully in the long term, both medically and economically.

This also applies to staff management and cooperation in the form of a „real“ team structure.

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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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