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The North Carolina Medical Society Foundation’s PractEssentials invites you to participate in many new and exciting sponsorship opportunities that reach 11,500 physicians and physician assistants. PractEssentials now offers podcast, webinar and website sponsorships. Here are the details.

PractEssentials Pearls

Monthly pearls of wisdom on practice management issues.

February 2009 Six tips and suggestions to assist your practice with compliance of the mandatory “Red Flag Rule" by Patricia Markus 6 min 30 seconds

We are using today’s technology to bring you timely information about medical practice issues and to bring you up to date news on what is important to physicians across the state.
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MEDPAC Minutes (Legislative Updates).

The North Carolina Medical Society is now offering the MEDPAC Minutes (Legislative Update) podcasts to help keep you informed of the latest news in the legislature, and regulatory affairs.

Click the play button to hear the latest MEDPAC Minutes (June 19 2009 3 minutes 54 seconds)
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Money Talks

Discussions about the finances of better health care in North Carolina

Click to hear the latest Money Talks Podcast with Joe Cattano as he discusses RAC audits for North Carolina Physicians 28min 43 seconds.
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Young Physicians

A Podcast series designed to assist physicians who are just beginning their careers.

Listen to the latest Podcast
Susan Childs discuses best practices for managed care contracting. Susan Childs, FACMPE of Evolution Healthcare Consulting presents this PractEssentials webinar. Ms. Childs is a board certified Fellow of the American College of Medical Practice Executives. She is a national speaker and contributing author for HCPro and the American Medical Association. 14 mins 39 seconds
Archives of Young Physicians

Meet the foundation

A series of brief interviews with the staff of the North Carolina Medical Society Foundation discussing the programs they are associated with.

Listen to the latest Podcast
Maggie Sauer is the director of the Community Practitioner Program for the NC Medical Society Foundation. 10 min 45 seconds

Archives of Meet the Foundation

Perfered Vendors

Discussions about the vendors that are featured in the North Carolina Medical Society site

Click to hear the latest recommended vendor Ed Scherer of Premier Asset Solutions 14 minutes 24 seconds. Premier Asset Solutions, A Member Advantage partner of the North Carolina Medical Society, specializes in providing office equipment and cost saving solutions for medical practices of all sizes. Premier’s vast experience in the field of healthcare provides opportunities for practices to increase efficiency and reduce costs through unique state of the art analysis tools. We hope you enjoy this podcast which overviews Premier’s offerings. If you have any questions and would like to contact Premier directly call them at 866-922-2323 or visit them on the web at http://www.medbluebook1.com

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About Podcasts

The NCMS is now offering several podcasts to help keep you informed of the latest news in the legislature, in regulatory affairs and in practice management.

All podcasts are free. The audio files go directly to your computer to transfer to an MP3 player, iPod or other audio player software.

You will need podcast receiver software to subscribe. A free, open-source podcast receiver called “Juice” is available from the link below. You can also use Apple's iTunes software, or any other podcast-enabled software you choose.

Once you install the podcast receiver, you have an option to add a feed. Select your feed then copy this link and paste it into the new feed field in your software.

Your podcast receiver software should now check NCMS podcast at whatever interval you specified and alert you to (and/or download) the latest episodes of our show.

To listen to our show, you need a media player capable of playing MP3 files, which is just about every media player in existence. If you use a Windows PC, you may already have Windows Media Player installed. If you are using a Mac, you probably have Quicktime installed. If not, you can choose one of the other players.

RSS Feed Client Software Links:

iTunes
Juice, A Cross-Platform Podcast Receiver

Media Player Links:
iTunes
Windows Media Player
WinAmp