Strukturion of Future Thinking
Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness” (Steve Maraboli). In addition to a basic attitude to life, the quote also expresses essential principles for the management of a medical practice.
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The actions of many physicians in private practice are shaped by misguided beliefs that prevent deficits and risk factors that hinder work from being eliminated. One example is the mindset about “efficiency”.
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When it comes to the medical care of patients in medical practices, the focus is on precision. Here, measurements are carefully recorded and analysed to ensure the most accurate diagnosis and treatment possible. But when it comes to assessing the quality of practice management, assumptions and gut feelings dominate. This leads to glaringly wrong decisions, which could be avoided if practice owners used the laboratory values of their practice management.
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Medical associations and specialist societies comment on the topic of “digitisation” in strategy and concept papers as well as in press releases, but the matter has so far not been included at all or only to a limited extent in the continuing education activities for their members.
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Digitisation in the outpatient sector continues to be slow, mainly due to a limiting definition on the physician side. Medical associations talk about digitalisation, but mainly refer to the telematics infrastructure (TI) and some accompanying aspects such as digital anamnesis and DTx.
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A key goal of doctor-patient communication when prescribing DTx is to motivate patients to actually redeem their unlock code and use the prescribed app. The most important technique in this context is not to describe the advantages of DTx, but to show its benefits.
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The “classical” medical imaging procedures help physicians to make diagnostic-therapeutic decisions and serve the purpose of monitoring progress. Practice management benchmarking fulfills the same purpose with regard to primary care and specialty physician management with the help of ratios and their presentation.
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The requirements of the medical target groups relevant to the offerings of pharmaceutical and medical technology companies have changed significantly. Increasingly, the players also want support in practice management. The “laboratory values approach” helps healthcare providers in this regard.
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Probably the most common objection raised by physicians and medical assistants to proposals for change in practice management is, “We’ve always done it that way.”
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In the meantime, there is a multitude of proposals on how the problem of the shortage of medical specialists can be countered. They range from more appreciation and better pay to a general upgrading of the profession and the offer of a 4-day week. In contrast, there is hardly any talk about eliminating practice management insufficiency and about digitalisation. But practice owners have two acutely useful alternatives to solve their problem.
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