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Facts and Figures from the German Health Care System
One of the big complaints of medical assistants in GP and specialist practices relates to the too little, poor and / or completely missing leadership by the owners. This “leadership insufficiency” can even be measured and has serious negative consequences for the entire medical practice enterprise.
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One positive aspect that is always expected in the context of digitalisation is the reduction of workload for doctors and medical assistants. But in the overall work balance, the activities that are eliminated by automation are offset by new work that is added.
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Practice management comparisons show that in German medical practices – across all speciality groups – on average only 53% of the regulations and instruments necessary for smoothly functioning practice management are used. The resulting patient satisfaction meets only 61% of the requirements and wishes. A deficient area of action in practice management with unused potential is planning. If it is activated, productivity, quality of work, patient loyalty and acquisition as well as the success of the practice will improve in the long term.
Facts and figures on the German health care system.
If one compares the statements of practice owners and medical assistants in company comparison studies, one notices a high discrepancy with regard to the self-initiative and independent completion of tasks. Among the weaknesses of the work, the doctors cite that the assistants constantly need detailed instructions on what to do. The assistants, on the other hand, complain that they are constantly being told what to do and that there is no room for initiative and self-direction.
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Facts and figures on the German health care system.
Routines are working methods within the practice management that help doctors and medical assistants to manage their tasks in a targeted and adequate way with the least possible effort in view of scarce resources. But in most practices they are more of a danger.
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Facts and figures on the German health care system.
The Best Practice Standard defines all instruments, regulations and behavioural patterns that guarantee smoothly functioning practice work in every work situation and even under changing stresses. On the basis of comparisons of practice management operations and depending on the degree of implementation of this standard, a typology can be derived for doctors and their implementation of practice management.
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Combining practice activities with the realisation of personal goals is becoming increasingly important for general practitioners and specialists. However, for one decisive but correctable reason, this has so far been insufficiently successful.
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In the search for development opportunities and future chances of outpatient health care, one central starting point and design parameter usually remains unconsidered: practice management. But its quality is currently in a bad way.
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Facts and figures on the German health care system.
Practice owners often react sceptically when confronted with the information that an average of 20% of working time can be saved in medical practices. For them it is inconceivable that their working time should be disposable at all. Two reasons lead to this attitude.
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Facts and figures on the German health care system
In its online edition of 13.04.2022, the Ärzte Zeitung reported on the pilot project “LongProf”, which aims to support and promote the personal development of doctors. Topics include dealing with one’s own mistakes or one’s own positioning between patient care and economic aspects. The goal is to integrate this aspect into medical training after an evaluation. Among other things, this would also solve a central problem of outpatient practice management.
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