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This is the monthly Toolkit issue of the AAOE eNewsletter. Each Toolkit includes online, print, and AAOE resources carefully selected by the AAOE Education Council. These resources are intended to direct readers to useful tools and information about a designated topic related to orthopaedic practice management. The topics will vary each month.
This month, access valuable "work hacks" resources to help you become more efficient and productive in your daily life. For even more tips and tricks to regain sanity in your work life, purchase the AAOE Work Hacks Webinar Series sponsored by Advance Rehabilitation Management Group to access the recorded webinars available in the Live Learning Center.
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Forbes
A CEO shares his list of helpful tools and apps to solve various productivity issues. Learn what each of the tools are, how he uses them, and the daily problems they can help you solve.
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Forbes
Seven "productivity hacks" to save you an hour or more every day when applied consistently. Use these tips to ensure you're making the most of the hours you spend in the office.
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Atlassian
As a visual person, nothing helps me organize and review workloads better than the Kanban system. Originally designed to improve throughput and quality at the Toyota manufacturing plant in the 1940s, Kanban uses visual cues to improve communication, standardize processes, and reduce waste. Kanban tools can be used by individuals or by teams, sharing work across several members or departments. While the easiest version of the Kanban board may include sticky notes and a whiteboard, there are now much more elaborate online tools that help facilitate the system electronically.
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SuccessFuel for Managers
SuccessFuel for Managers provides a list of quick hacks that managers can use to improve results on different items, from managing staff, to managing time and productivity, to managing your career. Each of the hacks is rather simple, but very insightful, and can offer a bit of wisdom for anyone looking for ways to improve. The list is ongoing and is constantly being updated to include new management hacks.
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Tracy Spears
Two simple ways to increase your daily productivity and remove clutter in your life by focusing on "the one thing," rather than getting bogged down in the many things that need to get done.
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As a busy 26 physician orthopaedic group in practice for 50+ years, Columbia Orthopaedic Group needed a simple, uncluttered EHR interface that focused on the specialized needs of orthopaedics. Read more.
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Michael Hyatt
One of the best tools on productivity I've ever done. This course from Michael Hyatt was created specifically for executives, entrepreneurs, and leaders to help you get rid of distractions and focus on what matters most.
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Wunderlist
This app is great for task management, specifically their email-to-task functionality.
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Flexibits
This app can be used to manage your personal and work calendars both in one place and one view.
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AAOE
- Easiest way I've found to create a new contact: click and drag an email over to my contacts on the bottom left of Outlook. That action automatically creates a new contact and plugs in the information it understands. I move a few things around and I'm done: new contact.
- No detailed email folders. I have three: Inbox, Deleted, and Archive. If they're in my inbox they need to be handled, in my deleted, they're finished, and in my archive, I need to save for future. It is just as fast to search for key words and bring up emails, than to go searching through to the folder that I felt made the most sense when I "filed" it.
- I turned off all of my email notifications so they don't interrupt me when I am working on something else — huge time saver and really allows me to focus on what I'm doing.
- Volunteering — by volunteering I learn from my peers and other associations and bring it back for myself, or for AAOE. Great networking and quick contacts for when I'm stuck on something.
AAOE
My most used app is honestly my Calendar app. I am able to view both my work schedule and my personal calendar by connecting multiple accounts to my Calendar. If it doesn't make it onto one of those two calendars, it will get missed!
AAOE
It may sound simple, but my best way to stay organized is just by keeping to-do lists that separate my tasks based on the priority for each day vs. an ongoing list of things needing to be done. Before I leave for the day, I typically make my to-do list with top priorities for the following day, so it's easy when I come in the next morning to jump right into whatever needs to be done that day.
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AAOE
In this eight webinar series sponsored by Advance Rehabilitation Management Group, learn how to take the stress out of your daily work life and become more efficient each day. The series offers tips and tricks on the various areas affecting productivity. Purchase the series now to access the recorded webinars in the Live Learning Center. PURCHASE WEBINAR SERIES.
David Allen
Although there are a million self-help books out there, "Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity" by David Allen is one of the best and most practical books out there from my experience. This book provides a complete work-life management system to help you take control of your life and achieve stress-free productivity.
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John G. Miller
This book is very relevant to customer service in medical practices and associations. Learn the importance of accountability in personal success, as well as the success of your organization. Each individual must ask these important questions: "How can I improve this situation?" "What can I contribute?" and "How can I make a difference?"
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Shawn Stevenson
Sleep is an essential component to living a healthy life, including achieving your professional goals. Learn easy tips and tricks to getting the best sleep and health of your life.
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Jeff Goins
Searching for your life's work requires abandoning the status quo to discover how your interests connect with the needs of the world. This book will help you experience a life of true passion and purpose.
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Richard Swenson
Anyone feeling the tremendous pressure of overload needs this book. Learn how to reevaluate your priorities, discover the value of rest, and determine where your identity comes from.
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AAOE
As the challenges in the healthcare industry mount daily, practices have been forced to make some of their most difficult decisions particularly regarding employee resources. Practice leaders have been faced with career defining moments while trying to ensure the success of their organizations. Join AAOE Members Robin Green and Rebecca Dean to learn the steps to take when faced with layoff or downsizing situations and the simple do's and don'ts for successfully implementing this type of major change. Sponsored by Modernizing Medicine.
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AAOE
The healthcare industry is on the cusp of a quality revolution. Patients can now quantify their satisfaction, experience, and assessment of their overall QoL throughout their care. Collectively, these reports contribute to a physician's quality performance score, which will be published on the Physician Compare website beginning in 2017. Learn more about quality performance transparency and the Physician Compare website, as well as how quality performance scores directly affect the bottom line steps towards leveraging patient-reported outcome data. Sponsored by OBERD.
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AAOE
Join Dr. Dan Mingle, CEO and nationally recognized quality reporting expert, for a concise overview of each performance category for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System, or MIPS, under MACRA as outlined in the 2017 Final Rule. Under MIPS, payments to providers are still based on the Medicare Part B Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), but those payments can be adjusted either up or down depending on their score in four performance categories: Quality, Resource Use, Clinical Practice Improvement Activities (CPIA), and Advancing Care Information (ACI). Sponsored by Mingle Analytics.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended the deadline for PQRS reporting for 2016. The new deadline for physicians using EHRs to submit their data is now March 13. See the complete list of 2016 data submission timeframes.
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AAOE
This guide has been developed by AAOE for the use of members to familiarize themselves with the requirements of the Quality Payment Program, and to assist them in choosing the best option for their practice. This is AAOE's understanding of the final rule and incorporates information from CMS that was not contained in the final rule but provides an understanding of the program that will be implemented in 2017.
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Becker's Spine Review
In its 2016 Intellimarker study, VMG highlights orthopedic surgery's prominent and high-earning role in ASCs. Here are five things to know.
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RevCycle Intelligence
In a time of healthcare consumerism and high-deductible health plans, the patient has become a major revenue source for healthcare organizations. But without strong point-of-service patient collection strategies, providers could be seeing their payments walk right out the door with their patients.
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The Washington Post
Leaders for the health insurance industry, state insurance commissioners and brokers warned that more health plans almost certainly will defect from Affordable Care Act marketplaces unless Congress and the Trump administration provide some concrete assurances within the next two months.
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Emergency Medicine News
Thousands of healthcare professionals choose to leave medicine for myriad reasons. It may be the unrealistic demands created by insurance payers to deliver "value" and get paid less. It could be the years of frustration over "meaningful use" that make our charts so meaningless in patient care or the dreaded anticipation of MACRA imposing yet more administrative burden. But there's always the one constant that creates fear in all physicians: litigation.
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Becker's Spine Review
Accountable Care Organizations and bundled payment programs have strengths and weaknesses. Patients are usually assigned to ACOs based on their primary care physician. This has led hospitals to employ more PCPs than any other type of physician in order to increase their ACO patient populations in an attempt to achieve greater efficiencies. In view of this, ACOs are generally effective at incentivizing PCPs but are not effective at incentivizing specialists.
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