MANAGEMENT/BUSINESS PUBLICATIONS...

  • Practice Support Resources, Inc. is a publisher and bookstore for managers, administrators, physicians, hospital executives, consultants and other healthcare professionals. We provide reference manuals, training books and tapes, newsletters, information packets, special reports, benchmarks and other educational tools in healthcare management. www.practicesupport.com

  • Advisory Publications:  Practice management resource center.  Books, reports, e-reports, tapes, newsletters on all healthcare practice issues.  15 E. Ridge Pike, Suite 510, Conshohocken, PA  19428; phone 888-941-4488; website: www.advisorypublications.com.
  • Private Practice Success:  Monthly newsletter from Advisory Publications.  Timely information on all areas of practice.
  • Journal of Medical Practice Management:  Bimonthly publication.  Most topics relevant to solo or small group practice.  Greenbranch Publishing: P.O. Box 208, Phoenix, MD  21131; www.mpmnetwork.com.
  • INC Magazine:  “The magazine for growing companies”.  Entrepreneurial ideas.  Small business ideas. 
  • FSB Magazine:  Fortune Small Business, entrepreneurial ideas, small business ideas.
  • SmallBisBooks.com:  The online entrepreneur.com magazine’s site for books and guides.  Comprehensive guides to starting new businesses of all categories.  Useful guide to organizing any business.

Provider of seminars and publications on cafeteria plans, 401K plans, COBRA, HIPAA, ERISA.  They provide seminars, tele-web seminars, and publications.  A new feature is a tax savings calculator for employees to estimate federal tax savings from using a wide variety of pre-tax salary reductions.

  • Useful Books:
    • The E Myth Physician. Michael E. Gerber.
    • The E Myth Revisited. Michael E. Gerber.  Why most small businesses don’t work and what to do about it.  If you have entrepreneurial ideas to grow your practice or increase its valuation for ultimate sale, these two books are a must read.
    • Take Charge of Your Medical Practice (Before Someone Else Does It for You).  Neil Baum, M.D.  Many useful ideas from a urologist who worked hard at improving his outpatient practice.
    • Putting Patients First.  Susan B. Frampton, Laura Gilpin, Patrick H. Charmel, editors.  The Plaintree model of patient-centered care.