Digital Nomad Physicians

Sometimes it's much easier being an employee, such an independent contractor than owning and running your own medical practice. Here my arguments for why it's so much easier practicing medicine for someone else.

• risk
• malpractice
• income diversification
• time flexibility
• resume building
• easier clinical work

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The cash-based medical practice isn't the best model in healthcare but it's the best one we have. I often catch myself wondering what legacy I'll leave behind; not that it's important to leave a legacy but I love the art of medicine and would love to leave it better than when I entered it or at least have a meaningful impact on it for everything that it's given me.

A cash pay practice is one in which I deal with the patient directly. And building such a practice creates a community of like minded physicians who will likely be my fellow supporters. And it's the kind of system in which I would like to practice one day.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/easyorthopedics/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammad-ashori-md/

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Let's talk about some good strategies to market to your ideal patients. Remember that people want to read and listen to content that relates to them. Set your agenda aside and focus on the patient.

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Physician Career Coaching: Consulting Private Virtual Practice Online Course: DocDigital

So whether you're a covered entity or not is an important factor to consider because it might or might not force you to be under HIPAA.

The main article:

https://www.dpcfrontier.com/hipaa

HIPAA Forms:

https://www.aafp.org/pubs/fpm/issues/2003/0200/p29.html

HIPAA infractions:

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/compliance-enforcement/agreements/index.html

Security Asessment Tool:

https://www.healthit.gov/topic/privacy-security-and-hipaa/security-risk-assessment-tool

Are you a covered entity test?

https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Administrative-Simplification/HIPAA-ACA/Downloads/CoveredEntitiesChart20160617.pdf

Does HIPAA apply to free clinics?

https://www.americares.org/wp-content/uploads/globalassets/_snc/eduresources/practicefacility/hipaa/2.-hipaa-faqs-may-2014.pdf

I recently interviewed Jeff at Practis which is a marketing firm for medical practices. He was quite helpful and gave me some general advice and broke down the prices which comes out to somewhere around $900/mo for me to have a social media campaign, a website, and a few other services all built out over a 30 day period.

You can check out some of the themes they use on their website to see if it's the kind of website you'd like for your practice. Again, the website design isn't the most important factor but what you have on your website.

I really like the way OSHI appears as a website - this is the kind of design I would like for my site which is something I can discuss with Jeff's design team.

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Telemedicine: Digital Nomad Health

Heart Health Coaching: Cardiac Health Coach

Physician Career Coaching: Consulting Private Virtual Practice Online Course: DocDigital

If you're a physician or dentist and are interested in joining a WhatsApp group of fellow like-minded individuals, please consider joining. If you request to join you must reply back with information about your credentials so I can verify it.

What we want:

• supporting each other with clinical questions
• running cases by each other
• learning how to run our virtual medical practices
• legal resources
• practice assets
• dealing with difficult patients

What we don't want:

• political discussions
• denigrating people
• being rude
• advertising
• anger
• heated discussions

https://chat.whatsapp.com/LHLgi3jNXoM3cBTd8V6S7p

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Dr. Mo

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Digital Nomad Physicians

Telemedicine: Digital Nomad Health

Heart Health Coaching: Cardiac Health Coach

Physician Career Coaching: Consulting Private Virtual Practice Online Course: DocDigital

Look, you can make it super complicated or you can just get it done and move on. In my online course, DocDigital, we are making our way through the Accountability Week and the students have 7 days to get EVERYTHING done to have their practice be 99% functional and ready, including seeing their first patient.

Nothing feels as good and real as seeing your first patient. Getting to that point as quickly as possible in my opinion is one of the best things you can do.

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Dr. Mo

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Digital Nomad Physicians

Telemedicine: Digital Nomad Health

Heart Health Coaching: Cardiac Health Coach

Physician Career Coaching: Consulting Private Virtual Practice Online Course: DocDigital

My girlfriend just had her visit iwth a specialist who is cash-based, meaning he charges cash and takes no insurance. Really great experience and for $500 per hour it was a good deal for my partner to get good quality care. I don't think she would have gotten care this good from a specialist in the insurance system or at least it would have been much harder to find that diamond in the rough.

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Dr. Mo

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Digital Nomad Physicians

Telemedicine: Digital Nomad Health

Heart Health Coaching: Cardiac Health Coach

Physician Career Coaching: Consulting Private Virtual Practice Online Course: DocDigital

Though there are tons of legal documsnts you can come up with for your medical practice here are the ones that are considered fairly mandatory. These are the legal documents you need to have drawn up or they could be templates you download and modify to help protect your practice and your patients.

• HIPAA Privacy & Policy
• Policies & Procedures
• Patient Consent
• Medical History
• Telehealth Consent
• Consent Form

There are several places you can download templates for such documents and later you can have an attorney edit them for you, probably once your practice takes off enough to make a good income. Sample places to download include:

https://pdffiller.com

https://jotform.com

https://healthit.gov

https://hrdirect.com

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Telemedicine: Digital Nomad Health

Heart Health Coaching: Cardiac Health Coach

Physician Career Coaching: Consulting Private Virtual Practice Online Course: DocDigital

There are a few EHRs or EMRs (same thing) out there that are easy to use and quite affordable.

Though you could piece something together with Google Worksapce you can consider the following as well.

• Medchartz
• Charm EHR
• Alute Health
• Atlas MD
• Hint Health
• Athena

Worrying too much about the EHR will distract you from what matters the most, marketing and connecting with the right patients to offer them their ideal services at the right prices.

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Dr. Mo

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Digital Nomad Physicians

Telemedicine: Digital Nomad Health

Heart Health Coaching: Cardiac Health Coach

Physician Career Coaching: Consulting Private Virtual Practice Online Course: DocDigital