Strategic Practice Management: Business Considerations for Audiologists and Other Healthcare Professionals, Fourth Edition provides solid knowledge and methodology for clinical practice management. With step-by-step direction for professional success within a leadership framework, this text examines virtually all facets of the management of an audiology practice and provides readers with the tools to assess and improve their skills as an effective manager.
With contributions from 20 experts in their fields, including 13 authors new to this edition, this resource thoroughly considers the many implications of running a business in audiology and expanding the skills necessary to be a better strategic manager. Comprehensively updated, the fourth edition contains 12 new chapters, including the new topics of human resources in the audiology practice, essential business principles for audiologists as clinical managers, effective incorporation of assistants in audiology practice, forensic audiology, and buying and selling audiology practices.
Dr. Robert Traynor, joined by new co-editor Dr. Brian Taylor, has extensively revised and updated the fourth edition based on the current climate of audiological practice, making it an essential resource for courses in practice management and clinicians managing their clinics, as well as any health care practitioner considering a startup venture, purchasing an ongoing practice, reinventing their current practice, or for those interested in sharpening their clinical service delivery model in the current competitive arena.
New to the Fourth Edition
NEW co-editor Brian Taylor
QR codes to related resources throughout the text
13 NEW contributing authors:
Amyn M. Amlani, Dennis A. Colucci, Alexander Evertz, Nick Fitzgerald, James W. Hall, Nichole Kingham, Sarah Laughlin, Kevin M. Liebe, Scott Myatt, Michael D. Page, Brandon T. Pauley, and Michael Valente
12 NEW chapters:
Chapter 2. Legal Considerations in Practice Management
Chapter 5. Analysis of the Audiology Practice
Chapter 6. Human Resources in the Audiology Practice
Chapter 7. Essential Business Principles for Audiologists as Clinical Managers
Chapter 10. The Effective Incorporation of Assistants in Audiology Practice
Chapter 13. Fundamentals of Pricing Services and Products
Chapter 19. The Hearing Industry: Navigating Vendor Relationships
Chapter 21. Application of Teleaudiology in Practice Management
Chapter 22. Forensic Audiology
Chapter 23. Ethics: The Risks We May Not See
Chapter 24. Administering a Medical School Audiology Practice: A Career Retrospective
Chapter 25. Buying and Selling Audiology Practices