Putting together a great team for your medical organization takes an enormous amount of time, research, tenacity, and luck, and the most-prepared medical practices will be rewarded with the opportunity to hire the best available doctors. When you see a physician operating at the top of his or her game, you can see the greatness in each action, and you should be filled with pride that you have such a talented person on your team. Great physicians are not defined just by the excellent things they accomplish every day. We also make judgments about them according to the things physicians refrain from doing. Here are five things that really great doctors refuse to do.

You and your team have worked long and hard to build up a successful medical practice, and you recognize that it is crucial to maintain high standards of quality in the healthcare services you provide. You also know that it takes time, effort, and good sense of what your patients want to ensure that they will continue to be loyal to your practice. If you don’t know what your patients want, how can you be assured that you are doing what it takes to retain them? With these issues in mind, here are some tips to help you give your patients exactly what they want.

It seems that people are busier than ever these days, with their attention constantly shifting between the requirements of work, family, and other priorities. The busier people are, the less energy they typically have available to devote to cultivating relationships. However, as the owner or manager of a thriving medical practice, you know just how important and valuable each relationship is with your patients. It takes time and effort to begin a relationship with each new person who comes into your practice, and you don’t want to waste that by failing to cultivate it.

The world of healthcare is transforming, thanks to a revolution in computer systems and our capability to network computers with one another, connecting medical practices with insurance entities and other 3rd parties. Health Information Technology is an important topic that your patients should know more about. Your patients may not know much about the technology underpinning their healthcare, or they may have questions or concerns about healthcare IT that you will want to be able to address.

Since the U.S. government recently extended the deadline for the mandatory transition to the International Classification of Diseases version 10 from ICD-9, many managers at medical practices and other organizations are breathing a sigh of relief because they weren’t quite prepared to make the change yet. If you’re among their ranks, you will want to take advantage of the additional time to get all your ducks in a row and make sure your staff will be in a good position to implement and use ICD-10. Organizations now have until October 1, 2015 to make the switch to ICD-10, giving them one additional year to get ready to use the latest version of the code, which is developed and maintained by the World Health Organization. In the meantime, here are three things to do while waiting for ICD-10.

You have recently recognized the importance of implementing Electronic Health Records software in your organization. EHR solutions are designed to help medical practices improve the level of patient care they deliver, speeding up a variety of activities, ranging from checking on a patient’s insurance status to entering in the codes for diagnosis and treatment. In order to get the most out of your EHR, here are four steps for putting it into action.

Inexpensive computers with astonishing processing capability, combined with advanced networking protocols and robust security and safety mechanisms to protect patients’ highly sensitive and confidential information have enabled a revolution in healthcare. More and more medical organizations are harnessing the power of networked computers with Electronic Health Record or EHR software to enable their staff to work better and faster while improving patient care. At the same time, the efficiencies that EHR brings to a practice have a positive effect on the organization’s bottom line.

When patients come to your practice, it’s only natural they may be apprehensive about their situation. Patients and their family members may only know that “something is wrong,” for example, or they could have a fairly good idea about what the problem is because they have gone through it before. Whether they have an injury or present symptoms of an illness or have run into a complication with a chronic condition that your staff has been helping them with for quite some time, you can expect that patients will have pressing questions that need answering as soon as possible.

The world of healthcare is constantly evolving, as researchers make new discoveries and invent new techniques to improve how we take care of patients. At the same time, there are changes in policy and advances in technology that can make it difficult to see very far into the future. However, we can imagine near-term changes more easily. With that in mind, here are five predictions for the healthcare industry in 2015.

As a busy manager or owner of a thriving radiology practice, you have likely determined that using an old-fashioned paper-based system is hindering the success of your operations. However, being busy can make it difficult for team leaders to prioritize tasks such as the implementation of a new software system in the office. You don’t want to procrastinate when it comes to researching and purchasing Radiology Information Systems software, as well as getting your staff trained and accustomed to using it on a regular basis. Read on to learn why it’s time for you to prioritize your RIS software.