Resources to help your practice thrive
Whether you’ve just started in private practice or have years of experience running one, you know that health care is constantly evolving, and what may have worked for your practice last year—or even last month—could be different today. It’s critical to stay on top of these trends to help your practice thrive and grow.
The American Medical Association creates tools and resources aimed at increasing efficiency, engagement and success, so you can focus on your patients and keep your practice open and sustainable.
AMA Independent Practice Accelerator Workshop
Take your practice to the next level with this immersive workshop, Sept. 11-12 in Chicago.
Business operations
In this podcast mini-series, the AMA helps you navigate business operations and efficiency challenges to grow your private practice.
Staffing and human resources
Recruiting, hiring and developing dedicated staff is critical to private practice success. This guide (PDF) from the AMA helps you through the process, including tips on interviewing candidates, compensation, countering other offers and more.
Electronic health record (EHR)/information technology (IT)
IT is an essential part of private practice operations, but technology does not have to be intimidating. In this playbook, you’ll learn how to select, implement and manage an EHR, optimize a patient portal and more.
Marketing and branding
Finding your practice’s identity in your area’s health care marketplace is key to sustained success. The AMA has developed several resources on marketing strategy essentials for private practices.
Digital health
Along with many other kinds of health care organizations, private physician practices may implement digital health technologies to enable their patients to access care remotely. The AMA telehealth quick guide outlines the first steps to get started and lays out key considerations to implementing telemedicine and explains policy, coding and payment.
Another resource in this area is the AMA STEPS Forward® webinar series on the future of health.
Quality improvement
If you want your practice to grow, commitment to quality improvement should be a pillar of your strategy. In this toolkit, you’ll be introduced to concepts of quality improvement, including measures, interventions and sustainability challenges, among others.
Practice efficiency
AMA Private Practice Simple Solutions are free, open-access rapid learning cycles designed to provide opportunities to implement changes that can immediately increase efficiency in your practice.
Simplifying service delivery
Identifying unnecessary tasks that burden physicians can help improve practice efficiency. This toolkit empowers you to find the “stupid stuff” in practice processes and change it for the better.
Change management and organizational development
This toolkit helps you apply organizational development principles to a health care setting to navigate change and drive practice transformation.
Culture and leadership
Leadership and team well-being
Leaders set the tone for a business’s culture, which affects the well-being of staff. Use this toolkit as a guide to measuring and assessing leadership behaviors and this playbook on wellness-centered leadership to establish a culture of wellness within your organization.
Strengthening team culture
A positive, supportive team culture is a key factor in private practice success. In this toolkit, learn how to assess your practice’s culture and find ways to improve and grow.
Addressing burnout
Learn about the Listen-Sort-Empower approach to eradicating the root causes of professional burnout, adapted from a model used for decades by the Mayo Clinic.
Health equity
Prepare you and your team to discuss and advance health and racial equity in your private practice with this toolkit.
More AMA resources
Dive deeper to explore more AMA resources on growing and sustaining your private practice.
Next steps
Identify and address challenges in your private practice before they affect your operations.
