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Few decisions can affect an organization more than the selection of an outsourcing or interim management partner. More and more health care organizations face such decisions in today's competitive market in order to face new business needs. Making these relationships successful can be important for health care organizations seeking competitive advantages or seeking immediately accessible management support. These relationships, however, require careful partner selection and development. Success in outsourcing and interim management relationships is contingent upon a thorough selection process, a strong contract that has clearly and explicitly detailed responsibilities and a culture-sensitive business rapport between the client and selected partner.

The Internet is providing new ways to find a new job or a great job candidate. Online job banks can make searches easy, but it's best to have a sense of what type of job bank will best serve your purposes. This article describes six different business models employed by Internet job banks and outlines their advantages and disadvantages. A list of online resources is included.

Patients who do not have adequate access to their physicians may feel isolated from decisions concerning their medical treatment and care and believe they have been abandoned to an impersonal health care system. Some physicians are addressing these concerns by adopting new technologies such as e-mail communication. The authors discuss some of the promises and challenges unique to physician-patient electronic communication.

For more than three decades, health care information systems have built upon the administrative and financial information needs of the health care delivery organization. Industry analysts project that administrative and financial information systems will continue to be important to health care, but post-Y2K resources increasingly will fall on the purchase, installation and support of clinical documentation and reporting tools. This manuscript provides a brief overview of the electronic medical record (EMR), and identifies and explains the need for EMRs in health care. This article also provides strategies for medical group managers and information systems managers to successfully select and negotiate a contract for an electronic medical record.

Voice recognition technology has come a long way since its start and has several applications in modern health care practice, especially in the development of electronic medical records. However, interested group practice managers need to look past the hype to get a realistic picture of the advantages and disadvantages of the technology in its various forms, as described in this article.

Many health care delivery organizations have experienced a flattening in the rate of their ability to decrease health care costs. Providers--if they are willing to take responsibility for care management and make appropriate investments to support the initiatives--are the logical party to take responsibility for improving care and cost control. Taking responsibility for care management, however, requires the tactical deployment of information technology to enhance care management. This article outlines what is required for information technology to improve care and cut costs.

More and more physician groups are considering taking a capital partner, whether a physician practice management company, a hospital or other organization. But physicians have questions about how partnership will affect their salary in the short and long run, whether it will affect practice overhead, quality of care and physician control. They also want to know what to do if the relationship doesn't work out. This article answers those questions and recommends that groups do a careful self-evaluation and scrutinize any potential partners before making a move.