Provider Time Management—7 Techniques for the Medical Office Manager

Posted by Practice Management Institute on Jan 7, 2022 9:00:00 AM

A provider’s workload is never ending. Time is always ticking, and there never seems to be enough of it in the day. With regular patient visits, mounds of paperwork, administrative meetings, and countless other demands, it’s no wonder that patients are kept waiting. This is why provider time management is an essential skill for the medical office manager. Improving a provider’s time management can have beneficial results including a decrease in stress, an increase in productivity, and much happier patients.

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Topics: Practice management, time management, medical office manager topics

Enough Is Enough: 5 Tips to Stop Burnout in Your Medical Practice

Posted by Practice Management Institute on Apr 2, 2021 1:07:56 PM

Mix together long hours, hectic schedules, heavy caseloads, COVID-19 chaos, and office politics, and you get a toxic recipe for medical practice burnout. Don't ignore these signs! Medical office managers can reduce the effects of stress and burnout with strategies that support providers and staff. Learn best practices to avoid burnout, protect your practice, and increase patient satisfaction.

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Topics: Practice management, time management, medical office manager topics, medical practice issues, medical office staff, administrative burdens

2 Everyday Situations to Apply Time Management - An Ebook Excerpt

Posted by Practice Management Institute on Aug 30, 2019 10:00:00 AM

An excerpt from the new ebook: The Medical Office Manager's Guide to Time Management 

Key tips, best practices, insights—we've shared a number of ways to better manage your medical practice. But if you're looking for guidance in getting better at time management, all in one place, you'll want to download the latest ebook on The Medical Office Manager's Guide to Time Management. Not only does this guide provide you with educational and informative gems, it also shares how to help put all of this great knowledge into practice. 

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Topics: Practice management, time management, medical office manager topics, medical practice issues

Managing Time: What Is Important vs Urgent?

Posted by Practice Management Institute on Aug 16, 2019 3:15:18 PM

To be effective time administrators, concentration must be focused on what is important rather than what is urgent.

Learning to concentrate on the important reduces crises mode and urgency addictions. The important eventually becomes urgent, so the strategy is to act on the important before it becomes urgent. 

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Topics: Practice management, time management, medical office manager topics, medical office staff

5 Best Techniques for Practice Time Management

Posted by Practice Management Institute on May 23, 2019 9:58:32 AM

The time clock is ticking the moment patients enter your waiting room. How soon do you greet them? How long will they wait until they are called to the back?  Respect for a patient’s time is perhaps among the most highly valued attributes of the patient experience. It’s also very frequently overlooked. So why is time management in a medical office so hard to control, and what can be done about it? Let us count the ways. 

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Topics: CMOM, PMI Certification, medical office certification, Certified Medical Office Manager, medical office, time management, cmom certification

How to Effectively Manage Employees’ Time for Increased Patient Satisfaction

Posted by Practice Management Institute on May 6, 2019 5:27:24 PM

Your patients love your doctors and there’s rarely a slow day in your medical office’s busy waiting room. But recent communication problems with front and back office staff are causing scheduling backlogs, and patient complaints are on the rise. It’s time for swift corrective action.

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Topics: CMOM, PMI Certification, Certified Medical Office Manager, time management, medical office manager topics

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