Last month, I opened a quick survey to try to learn more about the "state of pediatric bookkeeping." This quote from the survey describes how most of you feel: I don't understand any of it and feel at such a loss relying on other people! I just want ...
I've heard a lot of dramatic stories about the swing in pediatric visit demand over the last six months. For the third year in a row, our clients have gotten run over by an early-fall rush to their practices followed by a massive dive after the holi...
Rewind, painfully perhaps, to May 2020. We didn't know it at the time - we barely knew anything - but we'd just passed the nadir of the COVID impact in your offices. I was freaking out, wondering what would happen to pediatric offices after another m...
We've felt and heard it for over a year now: the demand for mental health services for children has skyrocketed since March, 2020. My clients tell me that they can barely keep up with the demand as anxiety among children has been impossible to manag...
This roller coaster has been a rough ride. The two biggest pediatric droughts in history - March/April 2020 and January/February 2021 - up against the busiest times in pediatric history - January/February 2020 and now August/September 2021.
I've been working on a little project relating to the impact of COVID on pediatric preventive care (a weird silver lining to the pandemic) and I realized I was holding some data in my hand that some on SOAPM have been interested in lately. So I'm sh...
We all know it will be years before we understand the broader impact of COVID on the health of children, but I'm doing my best to measure what I can now. I've highlighted two other clinical issues (obesity and unequal flu shot distribution) already,...
I had a great time speaking to Drs. Bravo and Rogu on their growing podcast, The Pediatric Lounge, to discuss the state of independent pediatricians and the use of data in a pediatric practice. They are cranking out episodes (which is a good thing) and anyone who supports independent pediatricians should tune in to their effort. What they are doing takes a tremendous amount of work and their guest list is amazing (well, besides me). They turned our conversation into back-to-back episodes (32 and 33), "Independent Pediatric Practice 2022" and "Data Data Data and Managing a Pediatric Office." If you prefer video, you catch up on their YouTube channel.
