Looking good is easy if you ensure that your natural colors are in harmony with the colors you are wearing. This means ensuring that the colors of the makeup you choose blend well with your overall skin color and hair color. This is crucial as matching colors in this manner ensures that the makeup you apply highlights your face and adds value to it, instead of taking away from it or distracting attention. The secret to doing flattering makeup is to build on what you are already gifted with, your natural skin tone and hair color. Here, it is also…
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Recent years have seen the wide adoption of remote storage services (otherwise known as “cloud storage”) to store user files and data. Driving this growth are two key factors. One is that most mobile devices now provide continuous, high speed internet connectivity, thereby making the transfer of data fast and affordable. The second factor is that, relative to traditional computer systems (such as desktops and laptops), these mobile devices are constrained in terms of internal storage resources. A high specification Android tablet today, for example, typically comes with 64Gb of storage capacity. When compared with a mid-range laptop system with…
If you’ve been in business for at least three or four years and can show a history of profitable operations, a whole new world of financing options opens up to you. The major advantage you have over a start-up is that you can prove what you say, whereas a start-up can’t. Be careful if you’ve been in business for less than three years or can’t show a profitable history—financing sources may consider you a start-up and put you in a higher risk category. Take your latest two or three years’ financial statements with you as part of your business plan…
A Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) is a corporation established with the assistance of the SBA to lend money to small businesses. Some SBICs serve minority enterprises, and are called Minority Small Business Investment Companies (MSBICs). An SBIC can borrow up to four times its invested capital from the SBA. It then lends out these funds to other businesses, aiming to make a profit on each loan transaction. There are some 400 of these across the country, each with different investment goals and objectives. For more information on business financing, click “Small Business Planner” on the SBA home page (www.…
Do not allow your staff to pick the EHR. This may be the most important take home message from this book! What you ask?…. this is sacrilege. Every other self help guide says get staff involved in the selection process early. Yes and no. Staff and physicians have different needs and wants. Not all EHRs are equally good at charting as they are in front office functions. Slick scheduling and front office workflow functions will be very appealing to staff – where they spend the majority of their time in the application. Physicians, on the other hand, spend the majority…
Physicians purchasing an ambulatory EHR system to automate their practice are doing so at a very exciting time. In early 2009, the federal government passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), ushering in an era of unprecedented government support for moving healthcare delivery to an electronic platform. Those who are purchasing an EHR today not only need to consider physician workflow and productivity, but also to be mindful of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) definition of “meaningful use.” Although meaningful use is an evolving standard, once defined, it will be the minimum data set and functionality…
The angles of your face are highlighted by your eyebrows. You can narrow the facial structure, broaden it or lift the eyes by working on your eyebrows. You can frame your eyes perfectly and tone down or underline the eye makeup with the right eyebrow shape. Perfectly shaped eyebrows bring balance to your face and add symmetry to all of its features. Using the Golden Ratio The golden ratio is a number that depicts the perfect proportion that is most pleasing to the human eye. Anastasia Soare Beauty ‘innovator’, was perhaps the first person to apply this number to the…
A round face is the perfect canvas for a fuller, thicker brow. A thin brow makes the face look plumper. An arched eyebrow gives the square face the lift it needs to appear more oval. Keep the brow thinner to allow the arch to get maximum attention here. Medium arches work best with oval faces. A good rule of thumb to follow is to keep to the brow’s natural shape as far as possible. For older women, the brows tend to droop at the ends due to the sagging skin. For such brows, Anastasia Soare recommends lifting the brows to…
If you are happy with your current PMS and expect that it will serve the needs of your practice for many years to come, you will likely decide to keep it and thus choose an EMR that will work with it. This is critical. You do not want your staff to have to enter demographic and appointment data twice so the two systems need to be able to communicate with each other. On the other hand, if you are not thrilled about your PMS or think it has outlived its usefulness, you will want to look at “integrated EMRs” –…
Dr. Bertman is Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University and is the Physician Editor-in-Chief of MDNG / MD Net Guide. He is the founder and president of AmazingCharts.com, a leading developer of EHR software and AfraidToAsk.com, a consumer health-information website. He has a private practice in Hope Valley, Rhode Island. As a Family Physician and the president of Amazing Charts, an EHR company that focuses on small practices like my own, I get to see the EHR industry from both a physician and a vendor perspective. One would like to believe…