issue-09-2017

Practice Central Are you starting a new integrated practice or maybe thinking about expanding one? If so, the subject of whether to hire a nurse practitioner (NP) will certainly come up, if it hasn’t already. The following will help you decide if you need one. The year 1965 is important for medical historians. At that time, two medical doctors at the University of Colorado started the first NP program in the country (and arguably the world). Today there are over 200,000 licensed NPs in the U.S.

Tech Talk Large-scale data breaches are reported on a more or less weekly basis, with companies in all sectors being affected. Corporations and tech giants are frequently targeted by hackers due to the volume of data they process and store, but healthcare organizations of all sizes are just as vulnerable to attacks because of the increasingly high value of the protected health information (PHI) they hold. Generally speaking, health information has a longer shelf life than financial information, and can therefore command a higher price on the black market.

Practice Central Walk through almost any state association convention or expo hall and you are bound to come across doctors who are considering opening a multidisciplinary practice or converting their chiropractic practice to such a model. Often there will be an assortment of consultants who are happy to help them along the way. If you take a deeper dive, however, you will hear a wide variety of ways that doctors and consultants seek to arrive at this goal.

Practice Central Unless you have been hiding under a rock, it’s hard to miss the fact that the business world is drastically evolving, and doing so at an increasing pace. The internet has dominated advertising for years, and new ways to use it emerge and disappear before most small-business owners figure out how to use them. The information age has expanded the amount of data available on any subject. And social media has changed people’s perceptions and expectations, for better or worse.