Sermo.com Introduces Practice Management Exchange
They physician networking site, www.Sermo.com, just announced they have started a Practice Mangement Exchange for their members, where "Physicians Turn to Social Media to Share Peer-to-Peer Advice and Solve Real-World Business Challenges."
Good for them! Do you think we as mental health businesses need to do the same?
Curious about Sermo.com? I am. Here is some of their info:
"Sermo is the largest online physician community in the US. It’s where practicing US physicians—spanning 68 specialties and all 50 states—collaborate on difficult cases and exchange observations about drugs, devices and clinical issues. And find potentially life-saving insights that have yet to be announced by conventional media sources.
Sermo is a real-time meeting place where physicians get help with everything from patient care to practice management. They’ve described it as “therapeutic,” a “virtual water cooler” and “vital to my everyday practice.”
Yeah, we totally need this for mental health care practitioners. What do you think?
Hi Susan,
I agree with your perspective completely that a similar site would be a valuable tool to those of us who practice health care in psychology-based fields.
Having visited the sermo.com site, I was quite pleased to be able to read comments from their physician blog regarding the politians’ proposed health care plan, the expected decrease with insurance reimbursements and proclamations from physicians in various fields with plans to move to a “cash basis” only practice.
Should it occur, that the physicians band together (as proposed in their blogs) and move as a group to a cash basis practice and have it develop momentum in psychology-based fields; perhaps then, individual providers will believe they have a unified front and will be ready to voice their opinions.
Although, I realize that today’s blog referring to this website was noting a virtual meeting place to consult with others, it seemed worthwhile to share the health care insurance revisions being discussed in this private forum (sermo.com).