2010 Spring Issue
Collaborative Relationships: A Chiropractor’s Perspective
By Anthony Lombardi, DCOffer services that complement those of other assessment and treatment professionals, keep patients’ health care teams informed and take the time to highlight the complementary skills and services you can offer patients in order to make your practice more appealing to the medical community.
Interdisciplinary Team Working in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
By The Health ProfessionalEvery medical specialty has to define its field of competence and improve professional skills and competencies. Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM) has been defined by the Section of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS). The background as well as the skills and aptitudes and the role of PRM specialists in the rehabilitation process are described in the White Book on Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine in Europe.
Launching Your Practice – Choices, Choices, Choices
By Sandy LeppanFor most regulated health professionals such as chiropractors, physiotherapists, naturopaths, psychologists, physiatrists, OTs, osteopaths or massage therapists, there are three basic choices: buy a practice, join a practice or start your own practice.
Making Your Marketing Work for You
By Angela WestHealth care professionals often have an "if we build it, they will come" attitude. Marketing is viewed as an unnecessary time-waster – until there are gaps in the appointment book. But there are ways of filling those unexpected gaps, decreasing patient attrition and attracting new patients, all with just a little sprucing up, online and off.
Ontario Auto Insurance Reforms
By The Health ProfessionalThe rumblings of reform seem to be triggered by crises. Witness Ontario’s pension and workers’ compensation reforms of the mid-80s and mid-90s, respectively.
Practising What We Preach
By Christine PeetsEveryone wants patients to work in a healthy environment, but do you practise what you preach by making sure your own workplace is safe and healthy for your staff?
The World of Care and Rehabilitation Funding
By Charles SpinaThis review will subdivide benefits into two broad categories: those that pay for goods and services (such as vocational counselling, physiotherapy treatments, medications and assistive devices) and those that pay income according to predefined schedules or formulas.
Toward a Paperless Office
By Christine PeetsTo be more environmentally friendly, we all try to reduce our paper use, but for the rehab medicine office, it can have more than environmental benefits. It can also reduce the amount of paperwork done by both practitioners and staff, and save money in the long run.
Understanding Practice Risk
By Charles SpinaThe International Organization for Standardization defines risk as “the effect of uncertainty on objectives.” If you are a health practice leader, owner or manager, having confidence in your ability to keep your organization out of harm’s way is an admirable leadership quality. Yet risk is insidious and being blind to it or ignoring it can have catastrophic consequences.
