Staffing for the Future Now On Demand edition

Item #: E8465

Medical practices must employ the right staff – with the right skills, doing the right things – in order to optimize provider productivity and efficiency while offering high-quality, personalized patient care. Join healthcare consultant and best-selling author Deborah Walker Keegan as she shares inventive staffing strategies.

Based on concepts from her new book, Innovative Staffing for the Medical Practice, this Webinar will explore strategies to transition your staffing model from a traditional, episodic focus to that of a redesigned care team, fully deployed to meet the challenges of today's healthcare delivery system. Keegan identifies the key elements to address as you align your staffing model for today's changing delivery system. Learn to redesign your staffing model to address:

Expanded patient access
Consumer-directed health plans
Value-based purchasing
Virtual medicine
Patient-centered medical homes
Electronic health records

Following this 60-minute Webinar, you will be able to:

Articulate the importance of creating the right staff to do the right things in your medical practice
Summarize the impacts of healthcare reform on your staffing model so that you can staff for the future now
Redesign your care team to meet innovative delivery-system care models

Date

Recorded on Oct. 6, 2011

This Webinar is also available in the following platforms:

CD (8465)

Deborah Walker Keegan, PhD, FACMPE

Walker Keegan is a nationally recognized consultant, keynote speaker and author. She is known for her dynamic, educational, and high-energy presentation style, and her seminars and books are rich with “real-life” case material to enhance learning. They are packed full of tools and techniques that are relevant and practical for today’s healthcare environment.

Walker Keegan is president of Medical Practice Dimensions, Inc., and a principal with Woodcock & Walker Consulting. With more than 25 years of experience as a medical practice executive and healthcare consultant, she assists clients in resolving a wide-range of challenges facing healthcare organizations today. Her consulting services are in demand by hospitals, integrated delivery systems, private medical practices and academic practices alike.

Key areas of expertise include:

Practice operations assessments
Revenue cycle assessments
Physician-hospital integration
Physician compensation plan redesign
Strategic planning and organizational evaluation

Walker Keegan is the co-author of five best-selling MGMA books: Innovative Staffing for the Medical Practice, Rightsizing: Appropriate Staffing for Your Medical Practice, The Physician Billing Process: Avoiding Potholes in the Road to Getting Paid (first and second editions) and Physician Compensation Plans: State-of-the-Art Strategies. Her latest book - Innovative Staffing for the Medical Practice was released in June 2011.

Walker Keegan earned her PhD studying under Peter Drucker and other management scholars at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management. She received her MBA from UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management and she is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Practice Executives.

With rich experience in consulting, education, and industry research, Walker Keegan brings knowledge, expertise and solutions to healthcare organizations. Her goal is to not only help organizations be relevant and successful today, but also to position organizations for the future as they work to meet the healthcare needs of their communities.

Who will benefit from this Webinar?

Group practice administrators/managers, practice executives and operations managers

Learning Level

Basic

Computer Requirements

MGMA Webinars are multimedia presentations that contain PowerPoint slides synchronized with full audio narration and are 60-90 minutes in length

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