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NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2009

Articles

The 2009 EHR User Satisfaction Survey: Responses From 2,012 Family Physicians

Robert L. Edsall, Kenneth G. Adler

If you're shopping for an EHR system, you might appreciate this advice from a couple of thousand colleagues.

10 Steps to a Patient-Centered Medical Home

ANTON J. KUZEL

Start with steps that increase practice revenue. Then you'll be better able to afford the steps that just make practice better and more satisfying.

Tool

“Vital Signs” for Assessing Your Practice's Financial Health

Keith Borglum

Paying attention to key metrics can help keep your practice operationally and financially healthy.

From the Editor

Step-by-Step Practice Transformation

Robert Edsall

Can you walk there, or do you need to fly?

Opinion

Creating a High-Quality, Low-Cost Health Care System: Lessons From Grand Junction, Colorado

Roger Shenkel, Greg Reicks

Good things happen when physicians collaborate and have a health plan that supports their efforts.

Coding & Documentation

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Cindy Hughes

H1N1 vaccinations | H1N1 sick visits | Medicare's limiting charge

Practice Pearls

PRACTICE PEARLS

Ku-Lang Chang, Phil Lawson, Doug Iliff, Robert M. Wolfe

Ensure smooth phone triage of flu patients | Chalk up this idea in your practice | Respond calmly to anxious patients | Connect to your patients with Facebook | Lengthen the life of your laptop battery | Divide workload fairly for covering physicians

The Last Word

What If Quiznos Were Run Like Health Care?

Timothy Laird

Good luck getting paid for those chips and sandwiches at the time of service.

Resources

CME Quiz (AAFP members and print subscribers only)

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