How an offsite computer-based management information system can be used achieve higher clinical practice efficiencies by wire. What to outsource and what to keep in-house.

How can you combine diverse photographic and diagnostic records as part of a practice which includes ophthalmic care, education and research? Take a look at how it's being done at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Why you are reading this, and what more you can expect.

A brief history of its transformation in three phases: visionary, consensual and corporate, as experienced by Fredric D. Burg, M.D., former vice dean for education at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

A survey of features of financial software.

Fine-tune your practice through realistic performance standards, shorter meetings, bottom-up communication, multi-purpose bulletin boards, structured salaries and management ratings.

Medicare reinbursement telemedicine consultations may be coming soon.

As managed care organizations have undertaken increasingly pivotal roles in decisions affecting the delivery of health care, judges have re-evaluated their earlier views and imposed liability.

A member of the medical staff questions the wisdom of this and other possibilities.

Major changes are explained as well as what can be done about them.