title: Get data, share info. Administrators explain how they use numbers to educate physicians, improve practice performance.
abstract: Finding ways to digest practice information quickly--and translate it for physicians--is a critical management task for today's medical practice executive. Extracting key information from management systems, accounting software and other sources to keep doctors informed about the practice's financial performance poses an ongoing challenge.
authors.affiliation: rxr@mgma.com
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Redling
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003142:Communication; D003363:Cost Control; D003625:Data Collection; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational / Q000191:economics; D005375:Financial Audit; D006123:Group Practice / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D008486:Physician Executives; D011216:Practice Management, Medical; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States