Strukturion of Future Thinking
While business comparisons usually serve to assess the economic situation of medical practices, a practice management business comparison offers general practitioners and specialists the opportunity to compare the type, intensity and effects of their practice management with the representative conditions of their specialist group and the best practice standard. This concept opens up a multitude of possible applications.
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In order to be able to deal adequately with the changes taking place in their working environment, general practitioners and specialists primarily need a solid practice management foundation. A simple system of ratios ensures solidity.
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Doctors of the upcoming generation of physicians have a general idea of their work in general practitioner and specialist care that differs significantly from that of their established colleagues. For example, they are proactively looking for new ways to retain and attract patients. One starting point here is to focus on the topic of “patient service”.
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Practice comparisons show that in the personal cause analysis for permanent stress for general practitioners and specialists, external influences in the form of bureaucratisation, health policy regulations or increased patient demands are primarily responsible. However, a precise analysis of the management of the practice shows that this is where the real cause lies.
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Patients’ perceptions of medical practices and their services have changed considerably in recent years. In this context, the criteria by which quality is assessed have also changed considerably or have been supplemented by new ones. One such criterion from the “Top 10” is to be taken seriously by the treating doctors.
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Practice management indicators, the Key Performance Indicators (KPI), are needed to condense the complexity of practice management in medical care centres (MCC), to make the circumstances and interactions of the areas of action manageable, to diagnose the performance status, to identify unused performance reserves and to control the management in a targeted manner.
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GPs and specialists use the offer of self-pay services to secure or expand their entrepreneurial freedom and to increase the attractiveness of their practice offer. In practice, however, only two out of ten practice owners who enthusiastically start with self-payer work are also economically successful with this form of offer after the introductory phase.
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Billing figures are of particular importance for general practitioners and specialists, as they determine the economic output of their work. However, too little attention is paid to the fact that the performance figures of practice management, the key performance indicators (KPI), are just as important, because they indicate whether the conditions for billing are optimally designed. They provide this benefit by
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As our market research results show, there is currently a great deal of uncertainty among physicians in private practice about what they will face in the course of the transformation and, above all, how they should behave. The following six steps will help them find their own way:
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In the search for development opportunities and future chances of outpatient health care, one central starting point and design parameter is usually not taken into account: practice management. But its quality is currently in a bad way. This white paper describes why practice management is so important and what GPs and specialists can do against its insufficiency.
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