startup planning

MVP: The New Way to Design a Concierge Medical Practice

As a veteran healthcare management consultant with more than 30 years of practical experience, I am frequently engaged to help physicians plan, launch, change, or improve their medical practice operations. Lately the calls have been coming with increasing frequency to help recent graduates and hospitalists establish a new concierge private practice. In other instances, the calls are from...

Measuring the ROI of JCI Accreditation for Medical Tourism Providers

Can you accurately measure the ROI of JCI Accreditation in medical tourism advertising and promotion? While JCI use to be exclusive, you would now place yourself among hundreds of competitors who have found that to attempt to use JCI’s logo to represent a medical tourism readiness and expect the accreditation to draw market share,...

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Agile Documentation Applied to Healthcare: An Introduction

What is Agile? Agile is an approach to product development that is based on iterative and incremental development. In 2001, software developers met in Utah and drew up with the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. The aim of the manifesto was to find better ways to develop software as a product. Is the business of healthcare...