If you learn from all the books, journals, speakers, and conferences about productivity improvement, you'd eventually come to the conclusion that improving the throughput of your clinic comes down to some good old-fashioned common sense, mixed with some current technology for fine-tuning. We agree. Much of the information for the clinic administrator to review does have the correct flavor of productivity improvement; but what we will do here is present a quick "executive review" article …showed first 75 words of 2730 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2730 total…pressures. Controlling costs is critical to increasing profit in today's highly competitive health care environment. The key to success is to simultaneously decrease cost and increase volumewithout lowering quality. This is an effective strategy because volume, cost, and quality are all tied to efficiency. Improving efficiency allows a medical practice to reduce its average cost per patient. We hope this quick overview provides some insights for streamlining or restructuring clinic processes, resulting in greater efficiency.