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Building a Practical Reliability and Uptime Plan for Charm Clinics
The article offers a practical checklist for clinic leaders to create a reliable, audit-ready plan for Charm EHR, to protect clinic operations from disruptions. It emphasizes defining operational reliability, mapping workflows, establishing recovery objectives, planning backups, stabilizing local environments, and reviewing incident response plans.
Bryan Dennstedt
5 hours ago11 min read


How to Run a Clinic Successfully: Prioritize These Fixes for Immediate Impact
To revitalize a struggling clinic, prioritize stabilizing cash flow, promoting predictable schedules, facilitating documentation, improving staff handoffs, tracking key performance indicators, eliminating non-essential tasks, and establishing a rhythm of operational reviews and changes.
Dan Dunlop
4 days ago10 min read


7 Practical AI Use Cases to Save Staff Time in Healthcare Clinics
The article highlights the benefits of using AI in medical clinics to save staff time. It shows seven effective use cases including intake triage, assisting in documentation, streamlining operations analytics, and more. It suggests AI usage should be field-tested and measurable to ensure efficiency and savings.
Bryan Dennstedt
May 1910 min read


The Operational KPI Playbook: Maximizing Clinic Performance
Practices should focus on a set of KPIs that provide visibility into clinic performance and scalability. Key factors to track include provider utilization, patient access and throughput, revenue per provider, claim acceptance rate, days in A/R, staff productivity, patient retention, and cost per visit.
Dan Dunlop
May 159 min read


Building Data Hygiene and Charting Discipline for Improved Clinic Operations
The article provides key strategies for building sustainable data hygiene and charting discipline in Charm clinics. These include framing data hygiene as an operations problem, determining "clean data," architecting workflows, creating enforceable checklists, and making data hygiene measurable. Real-life application and consistency over perfection are stressed.
Bryan Dennstedt
May 129 min read


The Operational KPI Playbook: A Practical Guide to Clinic Performance Metrics
The article provides a guide for clinic operators to use operational key performance indicators (KPIs) effectively. It emphasizes setting clear targets, defining core KPIs, and creating efficient dashboards for management. It also advises committing to consistent reviews, clean data capture, and clear metric ownership.
Dan Dunlop
May 810 min read


Designing Charm Intake Automation for Clinic Efficiency
Creating an effective intake automation process in Charm involves a methodology that is practical, reliable and mirrors real clinic operations. This includes designing a single intake path, ensuring reliable triggers, using data efficiently, and prioritizing staff adoption.
Bryan Dennstedt
May 59 min read


Maximizing Practice Efficiency: A Practical Guide for EHR Optimization
Identifying and fixing invisible time drains can significantly boost practice efficiency and profitability. By evaluating EHR setups and staff workflow in areas like patient intake, documentation, and messaging, practice owners can better allocate resources, thereby reducing burnout.
Dan Dunlop
May 110 min read


Optimizing Charm Telehealth Workflows for Efficient Clinical Operations
Successfully implementing telehealth workflows in Charm relies on defined visit types, scheduling rules reflecting real-world situations, standardized pre-visit intake, clear video visit entry methods, efficient documentation, order and follow-up protocols, sensible automation, regular quality and audit checks, role alignment, and ongoing staff training.
Bryan Dennstedt
Apr 289 min read


Standardizing Operations for Improved Healthcare Practice Efficiency
This framework presents a seven-step approach for efficiently standardizing operations across multiple providers without diminishing autonomy. The model focuses on defining key metrics, establishing consistent visit templates, normalizing scheduling, and creating operational rhythms to enhance margins, reduce staff burnout, and improve scalability.
Dan Dunlop
Apr 248 min read


Creating Effective Clinic Owner Dashboards for Better Decision-Making
The article provides a thorough checklist on designing ChARM's dashboards and reports that aid clinic owners in running their business, emphasizing the importance of decision clarity, owner-level metrics, accurate data mapping, and workflow alignment. The article recommends conducting maintenance and avoiding common mistakes for effective reporting.
Bryan Dennstedt
Apr 218 min read


Practical Checklist for Optimizing Owner Dashboards in Medical Practices
The article provides a practical guide for medical practice owners to design effective EHR dashboards. Recommendations include focusing on decision-relevant metrics, real-time revenue reporting, efficient scheduling, preventing staff burnout, and maintaining margin clarity. Discipline in dashboard usage is also emphasized.
Dan Dunlop
Apr 166 min read


Building a Seamless Workflow in Charm: A Practical Guide for Clinic Leaders
The article presents a comprehensive checklist for clinical leaders, detailing when to build or buy tools in Charm, an EHR system. It provides a step-by-step guide that focuses on operational problem definition, cost calculation, workflow mapping, in-house build evaluation, and guardrail setup.
Bryan Dennstedt
Apr 69 min read


Measuring ROI on Charm Workflow Changes: A Practical Guide for Clinic Leaders
The article provides a practical framework for measuring the return on investment (ROI) of workflow changes in clinics using Charm, emphasizing the importance of defining success metrics, capturing baseline data, building a cost model, conducting controlled rollouts, and documenting outcomes.
Bryan Dennstedt
Mar 3010 min read


The First Three Fixes For A Struggling Clinic: A Checklist For Owners Who Want Control Back
Struggling clinics should first stabilize their appointment schedule, streamline their revenue cycle, and reduce Electronic Health Records (EHR) friction to regain control and ensure predictable growth. This approach mitigates chaos, enhances revenue, and reduces staff burnout.
Dan Dunlop
Mar 299 min read


The Operational KPIs Every Clinic Should Track
The article guides healthcare clinic owners on identifying effective operational Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) including capacity, revenue, workflow, staffing, and patient experience. It emphasizes clear ownership, consistent reporting, and aligning Electronic Health Records (EHR) to effectively track these KPIs.
Dan Dunlop
Mar 2811 min read


When Custom Development Makes Sense in Charm: A Systems Architect’s Checklist
The article provides a comprehensive checklist for healthcare clinics considering custom development in Charm, an electronic health record system. It guides users to distinguish between workflow issues and software limitations, shares conditions favorable for custom development, and warns against common pitfalls. Guidelines for controlled execution of custom projects are also presented.
Bryan Dennstedt
Mar 2710 min read


Optimizing EHR Workflows for Cash-Pay and Insurance Models
To safely grow your practice, design separate electronic health records (EHR) workflows for insurance and cash-pay models. Further differentiate through different appointment types, financial consent template, and revenue reports. For scalability, choose EHR platforms allowing standardization and automation.
Dan Dunlop
Mar 268 min read


Optimizing EHR Workflows: Reducing Clicks Per Visit in Charm Clinic
To streamline clinic operations in Charm, measure and reduce clicks per visit by streamlining and observing real workflows, eliminating unnecessary tasks, and shifting workloads to the earliest stages. Revisit quarterly and incorporate automation last, post-optimization.
Bryan Dennstedt
Mar 258 min read


Essential Checklist for Owner Dashboards in Healthcare Practices
A practical checklist guides practice owners to create effective owner dashboards; prioritizing timely insights over aesthetics, focusing on essential revenue and operational metrics, detecting outliers in multi-provider setups and maintaining review cadence. A well-designed dashboard aids swift decision-making and practice management.
Dan Dunlop
Mar 248 min read
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