The use of electronic health records is widespread in large physician groups, but three-fourths of the nation's doctors work in small practices of 10 physicians or fewer.
This is illustrated in a case study on the post order company Spring Global Mail in the Belgian city of Mechelen, in which around 50 employees from a variety of ethnic-cultural backgrounds process mail orders in a fixed workflow (Spijkers & Moris, 2014 – DieGem case study 1).2 Through daily cooperation small practices of solidarity across cultural lines develop.
However, single handed practices were under-represented, as were small practices of less than 5,000 patients.
The main objective of the microfinance program has been to improve three dimensions of health care service provision and, subsequently, the viability and sustainability of the small-scale practices of private health care providers who received one or more loans.
Now I understand, of course, that on the small practice green of a public course on a busy Saturday, it may be impractical for 20 golfers to be pitching and putting all over the place.
Think of all the money you're saving buying small practice buckets instead of jumbo ones.
He had once been a lawyer with his own small practice and a love of battling large firms.
Although health care is increasingly provided in group settings, small practice settings will likely remain important, necessitating strategies to facilitate inclusion of small practices [ 65].
And in the end, better-known names like Renzo Piano, Rafael Moneo, Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas were passed over for the small Swiss practice of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron.
A major obstacle is that so many doctors, especially in small practices, are leery of technology they see as needlessly hard to use and time-consuming.
