Joe Capko

If you’re in private practice, your profits will be directly affected by how your staff can manage and adapt to ACA-related coverage changes.

Every urology practice faces this situation eventually: a difficult employee who demands disproportionate time and attention from management.

Storing data remotely allows for access from anywhere using the Internet, so, for example, a cloud-based EMR allows urologists in your practice to access and update charts from home or on the road using a smartphone or tablet.

Whenever an employee leaves, you incur expenses to advertise the open position and set up and train a new employee. And, of course, there can be productivity losses in the interim.

Using manufacturing principles might seem like an odd fit for your practice, but they can help your practice move more efficiently.