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ModMed is a 2022 Strength Partner of the ASCRS Foundation. Together, with our incredible partners like ModMed, we continue to improve physician education and support, assisting with providing increased medical resources, and changing patient lives forever. Read our conversation to learn more about their work.

Consulting and treating patients, managing workflow in your plastic surgery practice, and putting out “fires” as challenges flare up in your office can lead to long, busy days. Too many tasks that need to be addressed right away can mean little time for long-term planning, including marketing your practice effectively to new and existing patients.

The pandemic was hard on all of us. But statistics have shown that the pressures of the pandemic may have hit physicians and healthcare workers the hardest. While employment is starting to return to pre-pandemic levels generally, the healthcare sector is lagging behind, with a significant percentage of healthcare workers not returning to work. 

Dr. Hung Ecklund, Medical Director of OB/GYN at ModMed discusses the need to automate OB/GYN care processes. Her specialty deals with a high-touch patient population combined with a physician population that is estimated to shrink by 50% by 2050, and automation can help offset the growing workload on physicians.

Hospitals and health systems have 1000s of health IT solutions that they have to manage, upgrade, secure, etc.  However, the EHR is still the center of most doctors and nurses lives.  How well it’s implemented (or how poorly) has a massive impact on the experience doctors and nurses have throughout the day.

Don’t go it alone. That may seem like strange advice from an ultra-marathon runner like Dr. David Lehman, accustomed to going solo for distances up to 100 miles or more. But he has a team of people backing him up, both as a runner and in his professional life.

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