Quote of Note
From the Anesthesia Administration Assembly eGroup 

"Doctors in their 50s and 60s are much different than today's graduates. The differences lie in the study of how baby boomers are different than Gen Xers. The groups that can forge relationships between the generations will be the winners. The groups that expect the next generation to work as hard as [baby boomers] will be the losers."

Education
 

• MGMA 2011 Annual Conference
• ASA Conference on Practice Management
  January 27-29, 2012
  Orlando, Fla.
• MGMA 2012 Financial Management and Payer Contracting Conference
  Feb. 26-28, 2012
• MGMA 2012 Anesthesia Administration Assembly (AAA) Conference
  April 15-18, 2012

Advocacy

• MGMA Health Care Reform Resource Center

Anesthesiology Resources

• Get the data you need to succeed - participate in the 2011 Cost Survey.

• Cost Survey for Anesthesia Practices: 2011 Report Based on 2010 Data. This survey report enables you to make key expense comparisons — relevant to your practice size and specialty — that aid in high-level financial management and operational decision-making. You find solutions faster, focusing vital resources on patient care and practice performance.
  

• Operating Policies & Procedures Manual for Medical Practices, 3rd edition. Natural disasters, declining reimbursement and more diverse patient populations have made the need for specialized medical practice policies and processes even greater.
  
• HR Policies & Procedures Manual for Medical Practices, 4th edition. Human resource issues in the medical practice setting have a reputation for being more complex than the mainstream; thus, the need for specialized information has never been greater.
  
• Electronic Health Records: Transforming Your Medical Practice, 2nd edition. While some electronic health record (EHR) implementations proceed on schedule with the team’s full participation and – seemingly – little effort, others flounder, stall, or struggle, experiencing only limited success or, in extreme cases, no success at all. What accounts for the difference?
  
• Data Sanity: A Quantum Leap to Unprecedented Results. Far too much emphasis has been placed on “tools, tools and more tools” (especially statistical techniques), resulting in rampant waste caused by poor everyday organizational use of data. This book offers a new way of thinking via a common organizational language based in process and understanding variation to motivate more productive daily conversations for everyone.
  
• Integrated Delivery Systems: Ensuring Successful Physician-Hospital Partnerships. As medical groups, hospitals, and health systems position themselves for the new marketplace, they must be proactive in establishing new relationships and affiliations. Because the outcomes of health system integration vary widely, this book will help steer organizations toward a common purpose – in a way that is meaningful to providers, administrators, and health care leaders, and most of all, to patients.
  
  
• See additional group practice management resources