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	<description>Complex Implications of Obvious Phenomena</description>
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		<title>Health Care Act Provisions Immediately Ineffective</title>
		<link>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/care-value/health-care-act-provisions-immediately-ineffective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demetrios Perdikis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The list of the 2010 Health Care Reform Act&#8217;s provisions that go into effect immediately will, as has been the case invariably in recent history, serve to produce results directly opposite to their intended consequence.
Well intended as the Health Care Act&#8217;s architects might be, hopes and aspirations are no substitute for the realities of fact-based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Blow to Health Care Innovation: But Will It Be Lethal?</title>
		<link>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/innovation/a-blow-to-health-care-innovation-but-will-it-be-lethal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demetrios Perdikis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Models]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As in nearly all industries, innovation drives progress in health care. For innovation to flourish, as it must in highly technical  societies, government has to facilitate innovation&#8217;s medium and incentivize its stakeholders. Human creativity is the medium on which innovation materializes while the product of innovation is new way of doing a job more effectively.
Without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frog-Boiling 101: One Institution at a Time?</title>
		<link>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/care-value/frog-boiling-101-one-institution-at-a-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demetrios Perdikis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/?p=1801</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Constructive work takes more energy than destructive work. A skyscraper that took hundreds of thousands of people-hours to erect can be destroyed in less than one hour by careful, destructive planning. Here Dr. Sowell explains the history-proven effects and intent of central planning on institutions in such free societies as America. He warns of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Systemic Health Care Problems Are Best Handled by &#8216;Outsiders&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/care-value/why-systemic-health-care-problems-are-best-handled-by-outsiders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demetrios Perdikis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Models]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article is a good example of how workers in one industry can sometimes deem themselves expert in another.



Why US Healthcare Costs Are Out of Control: Two Insiders&#8217;  Perspectives
Frank J. Veith, MD; Zvonimir Krajcer, MD
As the authors of this commentary &#8212; a vascular surgeon from New York  and a cardiologist from Texas &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Physician Voices Seldom Heard &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/care-value/practice-of-medical-care/physician-voices-seldom-heard-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demetrios Perdikis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Care Value]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medical Care Delivery]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/?p=1794</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In their book, &#8220;In Their Own Words: 12,000 Physicians Reveal Their Thoughts on Medical Practice in America&#8220;, Miller, Goodman and Norbeck give voice and dignity to the practicing generalist physician.
This work is a must read for undergraduates contemplating a career in medicine, medical students and residents at all levels of training.
The data in this and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Get Out of Medicine?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demetrios Perdikis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Sowell&#8217;s article entitled &#8220;Getting Out of Medicine&#8221; is an important read for prospective medical students, current medical students and residents at any stage of training.

from National Review Online
Getting Out of Medicine
by Thomas Sowell
Some  years ago, one of my favorite doctors retired. On my last visit to his  office, he took some time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalism vs. Socialism in Health Care</title>
		<link>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/care-value/medical-care-economics/capitalism-vs-socialism-in-health-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demetrios Perdikis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, a very thoughtful post in Medpedia by health care economist Jason Shafrin prompted some thinking for which I am grateful. Just wanted to publish that comment here.
Read Jason Shafrin&#8217;s article at Healthcare Economist.
This is an excellent, timely topic and I commend Jason for posting  it as well as his excellent work in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Are Role, Responsibility, Accountability and Authority Related?</title>
		<link>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/talent/management/developing-people/how-are-role-responsibility-accountability-and-authority-related/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demetrios Perdikis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q: What is the difference between Role,  Responsibility, Accountability and Authority? Which one is most  important for an employee to understand his/her work?
I agree that there is much confusion in properly applying these terms.  But the differences are crucial.  Think of &#8220;role&#8221;, &#8220;responsibility&#8221;, &#8220;accountability&#8221; and &#8220;authority&#8221; in  terms of performing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Plausibility Established by Facts or Consensus?</title>
		<link>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/care-value/practice-of-medical-care/is-plausibility-established-by-facts-or-consensus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demetrios Perdikis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical Care Delivery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the The Lancet via WebMD.
If it&#8217;s true that &#8220;More rigorous studies have found no link between autism and the MMR   vaccine&#8221; as the WebMD article reports, then must not all citations referencing causation of autism by the MMR vaccine be stricken from the scientific literature? And if they remain, is it only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Roots of Innovation &#8211; Handy Parents</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demetrios Perdikis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Want to Be Innovative As An Adult?
Grow Up in a Do-It-Yourself Household.
Clayton Christensen explains that children whose parents are handy, do-it-yourself types foster curiosity and confidence in their children by virtue of their literally taking things apart and fixing them.





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When we are born &#8211; our brains are really quite similar but, early experiences in our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Must-Read Books for Health Care Innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/care-value/medical-care-delivery/3-must-read-books-for-healthcare-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demetrios Perdikis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Care Value]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Innovator&#8217;s Prescription:
A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
by Clayton M. Christensen
Our health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for future generations. We need a cure, and we need it now.

A groundbreaking prescription for health care reform&#8211;from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economics of Socialized Medicine</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demetrios Perdikis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical Care Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobel Laureate Economist Milton Friedman explores the unsettling dynamics set into motion when government imposes itself into a health care system.
This excerpt paraphrases chapter 4 from his book &#8220;Free to Choose&#8220;. The chapter is entitled &#8220;Cradle to Grave&#8220;. Those interested in health care economics and the arguments for particular health care systems structured in one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Be A Clinician In A Socialist Country</title>
		<link>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/care-value/medical-care-delivery/how-to-be-a-clinician-in-a-socialist-country/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demetrios Perdikis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
This is the full citation for the Karolinska Institute&#8217;s Dr. Gunnar Biörck&#8217;s article bearing the same title.

Ann Intern Med. 1977 Jun;86(6):813-7.
How to Be a Clinician in a Socialist Country
Biörck G.


Some of the events that have contributed to the development of the present Swedish health care system are reviewed. Although there are several useful elements in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gammon&#8217;s Law: Theory of Bureaucratic Displacement</title>
		<link>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/care-value/medical-care-delivery/gammons-law-theory-of-bureacratic-displacement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/care-value/medical-care-delivery/gammons-law-theory-of-bureacratic-displacement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demetrios Perdikis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Theories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Care Value]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Medical Care Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[displacement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is from the Australian Doctors Fund on Gammon&#8217;s Law.
A Note From Dr. Max Gammon With
Some Quotes From Milton Friedman
ADF Teleconference 24/25 January 2005
I should first like to thank Dr. Bruce Shepherd, Stephen Milgate and members of the ADF for the opportunity to take part in this teleconference on medical care. My initial contribution will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memory and Learning in Quality Management Systems</title>
		<link>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/talent/management/managing-information/memory-and-learning-in-quality-management-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/talent/management/managing-information/memory-and-learning-in-quality-management-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demetrios Perdikis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Graduate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Managing Information]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medical Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Provider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anterograde amnesia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The processes by which we establish and reconfigure mental ontologies and construct semantic knowledge is of particular interest here because of its implications in such complex human interactions as medical care encounters.]]></description>
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		<title>The Gates Notes Shows Twitter&#8217;s Reach</title>
		<link>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/business-models/facilitated-networks/the-gates-notes-shows-twitters-reach/</link>
		<comments>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/business-models/facilitated-networks/the-gates-notes-shows-twitters-reach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demetrios Perdikis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Facilitated Networks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bill and melinda gates foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bill gates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[eight hours]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Gates used Twitter to launch his new site "The Gates Notes". His Twitter account passed 100,000 followers in eight hours and used his now-popular account to announce his new project.]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Safer Flying or Getting Medical Care?</title>
		<link>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/care-value/are-you-safer-flying/</link>
		<comments>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/care-value/are-you-safer-flying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demetrios Perdikis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Care Value]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Rauch's article in the National Journal satirizing our health care system was recently made into a video titled “If Air Travel Worked Like Health Care.”]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Use These Management Theories?</title>
		<link>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/talent/management/do-you-use-these-management-theories/</link>
		<comments>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/talent/management/do-you-use-these-management-theories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demetrios Perdikis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Models]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Functional Organization]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Talent]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[business minds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[constants and variables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[descriptive prose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management theories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prediction formula]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[predictive power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supposition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[symbology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theory of general relativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theory of gravity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[totality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[work theory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So why don't the theories that are put forth in business seem to work? As I see it, there are two reasons. Firstly, most of what passes as theory in business is nothing more than a set of exuberant assumptions.]]></description>
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		<title>Are you in the right collaboration environment?</title>
		<link>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/talent/management/do-you-operate-these-specific-types-of-collaboration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/talent/management/do-you-operate-these-specific-types-of-collaboration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demetrios Perdikis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Models]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tactics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[2x2 matrix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cause and effect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[common goal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coordinated training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[division of labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[measuring performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[models of collaboration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[team building]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Collaboration is, to me, about the division of labor (as the word's etymology implies) that leads to cooperation toward a common goal.
There are two models of collaboration and team-building that I believe speak to the spirit of consensual cooperation.]]></description>
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		<title>Is Mentoring Worth the Time and Energy?</title>
		<link>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/talent/management/developing-people/is-mentoring-worth-the-time-and-energy-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/talent/management/developing-people/is-mentoring-worth-the-time-and-energy-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demetrios Perdikis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Developing People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Talent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advisory role]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[case study method]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collective experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[experiential teaching]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pattern recognition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[perspective]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[real world]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[smile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My approach to mentoring comes primarily from the perspective of a teaching role, rather than a counseling or advisory role.]]></description>
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		<title>Practice Management Solutions That Aren&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/talent/management/managing-information/practice-management-solutions-that-arent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/talent/management/managing-information/practice-management-solutions-that-arent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demetrios Perdikis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knowledge Architecture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tactics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business activities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business processes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[effective management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[epm software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care providers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human interactions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical business]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[popular solutions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[provider service]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Applications claiming to be "practice management" systems abound. Popular "solutions" are NextGen,  AdvancedMD, eClinicalWorks and dozens of others used by clients as small as single-specialty practices to very large physician associations (IPAs) and even RHIOs. You can find a pretty good listing of such software here.]]></description>
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		<title>Employee engagement on the slate in a recession?</title>
		<link>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/talent/management/developing-people/employee-engagement-on-the-slate-in-a-recession/</link>
		<comments>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/talent/management/developing-people/employee-engagement-on-the-slate-in-a-recession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demetrios Perdikis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[academic debate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[business benefit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[economic climate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Engaging employees should not be a chore, a single activity or something dreadful to do when you absolutely must. On the contrary, employee engagement is a mechanism by which managers can do their job of converting behaviors into performance.]]></description>
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		<title>Patients with Dizziness &#8211; Audiology&#8217;s Perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/care-value/practice-of-medical-care/patients-with-dizziness-audiologys-perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 12:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demetrios Perdikis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Medical Encounter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advanced beneficiary notice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american academy of audiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american medical association]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[audiologists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Balance and Dizziness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[benign paroxysmal positional vertigo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canalith repositioning procedure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[centers for medicare and medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[centers for medicare and medicaid services]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[current procedural terminology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faaa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article by Ives nicely describes the role of audiologists in distinguishing among major dizziness types. I especially like the author's integrating such reimbursement items as proper coding into the article's clinical context.]]></description>
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		<title>Thought Modalities in Design</title>
		<link>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/care-value/practice-of-medical-care/the-provider/thought-modalities-in-design/</link>
		<comments>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/care-value/practice-of-medical-care/the-provider/thought-modalities-in-design/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 17:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demetrios Perdikis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knowledge Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Provider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conceptual Framework]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thought that directs the flow of thinking is essential to purposefulness and the exercise of will regarding any
subject, situation or activity. Intentional thought focuses, prioritizes and directs thought to achieve an
acceptable resolution of a situation.]]></description>
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		<title>Can Tribes Teach Us About Care Value?</title>
		<link>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/care-value/practice-of-medical-care/tribes-teach-us-about-care-value/</link>
		<comments>http://www.demetriosaperdikis.com/care-value/practice-of-medical-care/tribes-teach-us-about-care-value/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 23:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demetrios Perdikis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Care Value]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medical Care Delivery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medical Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[catalyst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[continuous improvement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deterioration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What value we place on our medical care is determined by the stakeholders of our care. Healthcare quality through patient value is therefore central concept in medical care and continuous improvement.]]></description>
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