Medical groups clean up act with Six Sigma standards
The News Review:
- Medical groups clean up act with Six Sigma standards
- Injecting Autologous Cells Could Relieve Urinary Incontinence
- Business North Carolina Spotlights the State’s Best Doctors; nly…
Medical groups clean up act with Six Sigma standards
Bizjournals.com – Jun 29, 2007
Before it gets its money a medical practice might have to track down missing information fix incorrect forms and play a few rounds of phone tag. Weary of such inefficiency the practice turned to quality-management techniques developed in manufacturing to stamp out mistakes and improve its bottom line. _10116C894C254A07B0D24C3B43747612… (ver the years it’s been adopted by such companies as General Electric Raytheon and Merrill Lynch. ) In Cincinnati the 14-doctor family medicine group Health First Physicians also has had success with the system whose use in medical groups is "relatively rare nationally" said Robert Matthews CE of practice management group MediSync which runs Health First. Urology Group administrators mapped out the accounts receivable process step by step and where each employee had done things differently standardized operations. Now information is always collected from patients in the same way and patients are asked to present their insurance card at each visit no matter which of the group’s 21 locations they visit. And the days-in-accounts-receivable figure is around 20. "The idea is to clean up the errors and that way they can say ‘yes’" Jim Rapp an accountant and project analyst with the group said of payers. The group used Six Sigma for several other areas including coding and appointment-setting.
Injecting Autologous Cells Could Relieve Urinary Incontinence
Medical News Today – Medical News Today (press release) – Jun 29, 2007
They say: “We show that continence improved more in patients injected with autologous myoblasts and fibroblasts than in those injected with collagen. ” They conclude: “Long-term postoperative results and data from multicentre trials with larger numbers of patients are needed to assess whether injection of autologous cells into the rhabadosphincter and the urethra could become a standard treatment for urinary incontinence. ” In the accompanying Comment Dr Giacomo Novara and Dr Walter Artibani Urology Clinic University of Padua Italy say: “Hannes Strasser and colleagues report a randomised trial that can be seen as the beginning of a new era in urogynaecology. ” They conclude: “If the data are confirmed this approach is likely to cause a substantial change in the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence and could become one of the most important innovations in urology since the development of extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy for urinary stone treatment and tension-free vaginal tape for stress urinary incontinence.
Business North Carolina Spotlights the State’s Best Doctors; nly…
carolinanewswire.com – Jun 29, 2007
Good doctors are especially important to businesses confronted with the rising cost of providing medical coverage for their employees. Health-care economists say treatment by doctors who provide better outcomes is less expensive in the long run. The magazine publishes listings for the following specialties: addiction medicine allergy and immunology cardiovascular disease colon and rectal surgery dermatology endocrinology and metabolism gastroenterology infectious disease internal medicine (general) medical oncology and hematology nephrology neurological surgery neurology nuclear medicine obstetrics and gynecology ophthalmology orthopedic surgery otolaryngology physical medicine and rehabilitation plastic surgery psychiatry pulmonary and critical-care medicine radiation oncology rheumatology sleep medicine surgery surgical oncology thoracic surgery and urology. ther specialties are published on the Web at.
Written by admin on June 29th, 2007 with
no comments.
Read more articles on News.