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Syndicom http://syndicom.com Good things happen when people connect. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:54:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Good things happen when people connect. Walker Thompson http://spineconnect.syndicom.com/sc/themes/spineconnect-default/images/syndicom_logo.gifSyndicomhttp://syndicom.com no Walker Thompson walker@syndicom.com HEY SPINE SPECIALIST: Are You Aware Of The Changing Face Of Reimbursement And Educating Your Operations Teams? http://syndicom.com/blog/hey-spine-specialist-are-you-aware-of-the-changing-face-of-reimbursement-and-educating-your-operations-teams/ http://syndicom.com/blog/hey-spine-specialist-are-you-aware-of-the-changing-face-of-reimbursement-and-educating-your-operations-teams/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:49:06 +0000 walker http://syndicom.com/?p=224 http://syndicom.com/blog/hey-spine-specialist-are-you-aware-of-the-changing-face-of-reimbursement-and-educating-your-operations-teams/feed/ 0 What are the four things surgeons starting a practice should care about? Well, that’s what Barbara Cataletto and I talked about and more. The podcast (click to play above) contains some rich information and ideas on how Spine Specialists can do more to educate their teams to improve the top and bottom line! <a href="http://syndicom.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/business-dynamics-limited.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-227" title="business-dynamics-limited" src="http://syndicom.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/business-dynamics-limited.jpg" alt="Barbara Cataletto" width="205" height="275" /></a>Barbara is the CEO of <a href="http://www.businessdynamicslimited.com/company.html">Business Dynamics Limited</a>, a firm specializing in enhancing revenues of Spine Specialists through improved collection and reimbursement strategies. What’s more, the company is focused on educating the administrative and operational workforce of the Spine Specialist, so surgeons can focus on better patient outcomes. Our talk centered on the importance of education, which cannot be understated! In today’s changing reimbursement environment, the Spine Specialist needs to be keenly aware of staffing education. In other words, you might think they know everything about contracting, working with insurance providers and hospital administrators, but things change. The Business Dynamics Limited message: KEEP THEM EDUCATED! So, back to those four things a surgeon should care about when starting their practice. Barbara gave me an important list that every surgeon should care/think about, regardless if you starting your practice… 1. Think about staffing as you would your marriage These team members are your eyes and ears. They are your advocates. When you are in the OR, they are dealing with the paper work. Trust, care and attention, just like in a marriage, are important. 2. Get the right people on the bus You wouldn’t hire a scrub tech that fumbled around would you? So why do Spine Specialists pay little attention to their administrators. You may not find the perfect person, but you need to find a smart self-starter. 3. Recognize failures and correct quickly People make mistakes. But, sometimes we don’t learn from them. Teach your administrators how to learn from their mistakes and take action to learn from them; then share the knowledge. 4. Know how you get paid! Probably the most important point. You don’t have to know everything about the process, but it helps to have the basic knowledge. Seek learning opportunities and do a deep dive when you have time. You won’t regret it! What are the four things surgeons starting a practice should care about? Well, that’s what Barbara Cataletto and I talked about and more. The podcast (click to play above) contains some rich information and ideas on how Spine Specialists can [...] Dr. Paul Slosar on collaboration, community and emerging technologies http://syndicom.com/blog/paul-slosar-on-collaboration-community-and-emerging-technologies/ http://syndicom.com/blog/paul-slosar-on-collaboration-community-and-emerging-technologies/#comments Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:56:56 +0000 Kirsten Broadfoot http://syndicom.com/?p=178 http://syndicom.com/blog/paul-slosar-on-collaboration-community-and-emerging-technologies/feed/ 3 Listen to the podcast: <img class="alignleft" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/medhelp_images/profiles/576452?1219696690" alt="" />This week we had the very distinct pleasure of speaking with <a href="http://drslosar.com/">Paul Slosar, MD</a> of the <a href="http://www.spinecare.com/index.html" target="_blank">San Francisco Spine Institute and the Spine Care Group</a>. Paul is a well known and very active <a href="http://www.syndicom.com/spineconnect" target="_blank">Spine Connect </a>user, working in and across multiple and diverse public groups as well as with emerging technologies in the community. He has been involved with the community from its inception and has watched it blossom and now extend its reach across the waters to surgeons in developing countries who have some of the most complicated and unusual cases Paul as ever seen. As Paul says, the real contribution<a href="http://www.syndicom.com/spineconnect" target="_blank"> SpineConnect </a>brings to surgeons is that it provides them with support, advice and continual development professionally, any time, any where. Surgeons can join larger public <img class="alignright" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/221/480057824_c16d767b4d_m.jpg" alt="" />groups which may be geographically based, specialist groups or even private groups where emerging technologies are developed. This sharing of knowledge in the community allows younger surgeons, older surgeons, fellows and mentors to work together with challenging cases and new tools. Just knowing that your colleagues are there provides surgeons with confidence that perhaps they might not have alone in private practice. As we become more wired, it is becoming increasingly easy for community members to participate in their own time zones and contribute. This increased response-ability improves clinical care and practice and builds a sense of professional community as personal connections made online in <a href="http://www.syndicom.com/spineconnect" target="_blank">SpineConnect </a>migrate over to face to face interactions at conferences and in meetings. Paul says this is incredibly important when reaching out to fellow surgeons in developing countries to help improve their situation as well as expanding the experiences of US based surgeons. Interestingly enough, in <img class="alignleft" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/61/156288613_84cfe8e86d_m.jpg" alt="" />especially remote areas, it is the medical device countries with their distribution networks that facilitate connections between surgeons internationally. Even if surgeons do not contribute regularly there are many who benefit from just watching and reading [...] Listen to the podcast: This week we had the very distinct pleasure of speaking with Paul Slosar, MD of the San Francisco Spine Institute and the Spine Care Group. Paul is a well known and very active Spine Connect user, working in and across [...] Ray Miles on Collaborative Entrepreneurship http://syndicom.com/blog/ray-miles-on-collaborative-entrepreneurship/ http://syndicom.com/blog/ray-miles-on-collaborative-entrepreneurship/#comments Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:29:32 +0000 Kirsten Broadfoot http://syndicom.com/?p=118 http://syndicom.com/blog/ray-miles-on-collaborative-entrepreneurship/feed/ 0 Welcome to Syndicom’s first podcast in its 2008 series! Listen to the podcast: In this interview, Walker Thompson, VP Sales and Marketing at <a href="http://www.syndicom.com">Syndicom</a> sits down to chat with <a href="http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/miles.html">Dr. Ray Miles </a>from UC Berkeley, author of the book “Collaborative Entrepreurship”. <img class="alignright" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3207/2844764270_c819f39aae_m.jpg" alt="" width="230" height="153" />In this conversation, Dr Miles discusses the companies which inspired the book (set in 2010) and its practices. Focused on collaboration, Walker and Ray discuss whether there is a ‘collaborative personality’ present in such companies and its likely sources as well as the sharing of intellectual equity and whether such a cultural message can be consistent through an organization’s practices. “OpWin”, the fictional company on which the book is based, acts as an exemplar for how collaborations in the founding of a company can be formalized into a way of doing business through engaging in partnerships with those with whom the founders have worked with in complementary markets and with whom they have a high level of trust. Dr Miles provides insight into with ways in which reflecting on collaborative practices in the past, as well as their critique, can flow into the design of future practices and partnerships to build a strong community based in strong values and commitments (see page 52 in the book for Miles’ collaborative entrepreneurship model!). <img class="alignleft" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518XJ4MPBDL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg" alt="" />The book itself provides a blueprint of all the components necessary for a collaborative structure, from business models that create wealth to interdepartmental relationships within a community of firms. While similar to the actions involved with setting up a single purpose firm, the collaborative structure built into the community to which OpWin belonged is inherently more complex. Much of this complexity exists because of people’s fears of collaboration and ‘where it will lead’. For Miles, this comes as no surprise because the ability to [...] Welcome to Syndicom’s first podcast in its 2008 series! Listen to the podcast: In this interview, Walker Thompson, VP Sales and Marketing at Syndicom sits down to chat with Dr. Ray Miles from UC Berkeley, author of the book [...] Walker Thompson 29.40 no