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Smart Phones and Medical Apps

Feb 28, 2010 8:16am

Seems these days everyone has some sort of smart phone. We use them to manage our lives, keep us organized, keep in contact, share, and function better in the exam room (”second brain”). As a long time Palm OS user, I opted for the PalmPre last year. There were several reasons,...

NP Interview: Pain Management

Feb 18, 2010 6:47am

Join us on Sunday, February 21, as we interview Louann Hart DNP, ARNP, FNP-BC, NP-C. Clinician, educator, and researcher, Dr. Hart’s focus for the past six years has been the assessment and management of chronic pain. As such, in November of 2007, Louann founded Partners in Healthcare, PLC, a...

Open Q&A February 8th

Feb 6, 2010 11:16am

Once a month, members of Nurse Practitioner Business Owner™ (NPBO™ ) have the opportunity to gather together to ask questions (and get answers!), brainstorm and just plain network. So many ideas come out of these gatherings, that I find it’s one of my favorite activities. Our next Q&A is Monday February...

Medicare Provider Enrollment

Feb 6, 2010 6:17am

Many Nurse Practitioners find the process of getting credentialed with Medicare to be confusing or downright frustrating. A few find their dealings with Medicare to be smooth and easy, but most of us are in the confusion camp. Here’s you chance to clear some of that confusion. The Centers for Medicare...

Nurse Practitioner Practice in Australia

Jan 29, 2010 6:36am

Health care, delivered by Nurse Practitioners, in NP run clinics and offices is growing around the world. This is a good thing. We know there is a shortage of primary care providers and health care consumers need and want a choice in their providers. However, despite studies showing that NPs are...

Social Media Survey for Clinicians

Jan 11, 2010 2:34pm

Social Media is something that health care providers are talking about. So are the medical-legal folks! We @ NPBO ™ are working on information about how Nurse Practitioners and other clinicans can best use this media for communication and marketing – and do so in a safe and ethical manner...

NPBO(tm) Member Only Q&A

Jan 6, 2010 5:03pm

Members of Nurse Practitioner Business Owner™ will have a chance to ask any question you have during our next monthly Q&A call which is scheduled for Monday January 11, 2010. This benefit is exclusive to NPBO™ members. This is your chance to ask any question to have about start up and...

NP Interviews: KC Arnold, ANP, BC-ADM

Jan 4, 2010 4:45pm

What do you do when you are suddenly without a job, and have no prospects of any acceptable employment? And you need to make it happen within weeks? Oh yes, and you are trying to do this post hurricane? You do as Nike® says…”Just Do It”! And that is exactly what...

A Note of Thanks to Nurse Practitioners

Dec 30, 2009 8:34pm

As 2009 comes to a close, I’ve been looking back and reflecting on these past 12 months. On a personal level, it’s been a year of change and thus, growth. As is true for most of us, there have been some wins and some loses. Often those loses are lessons in...

Medicare to Hold Payments to Providers

Dec 28, 2009 12:08pm

Nurse Practitioners, along with other health care providers can expect to have payments held for “up to the first 10 business days of January”. According to CMS: The President has signed the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2010 which provides for a zero percent (0%) update to the 2010 Medicare Physician...