Keith L. Martin

Internists urge focus on non-medical factors to truly drive patient improvement, promote health equity

One physician offers advice to peers to make value-based care work at private practices, and perhaps even see financial gains.

Technology has the power to connect, but also the power to divide, as physicians well know.

Rather than presenting a challenge to small medical practices, telemedicine can present an opportunity.

There is a special group of physicians who work tirelessly to improve the lives of their patients, their own medical practice and the well-being of their community. To us, those physicians are ChangeMakers.

How long they can play the Medicare payment shell game without simply walking away from the table?

Physicians’ ongoing struggle to gain much-needed patient data is just that: ongoing.

National Coordinator Don Rucker on why figuring out system problems is similar to diagnosing a patient’s illness

Will CVS require patients to go to MinuteClinics instead of the physician they are used to seeing?

With small practices largely outsourcing tech support, it’s critical they take steps to be prepared

I want to go on record now with a few that the entire team at Medical Economics plans to keep in 2018

Many physicians are relieved to see 2017 come to an end.

In the ongoing examination of U.S. healthcare costs, one economist has found the lone trouble spot: physician salaries.

In the book, “What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear,” Danielle Ofri, an associate professor of medicine at the New York University School of Medicine, examines the state of physician-patient communication and what can be done to reduce the distractions and get back to focusing on improving the patient’s health.

After nearly a decade of regular use, it’s time to rethink and restart how physicians use electronic health records (EHRs), according to Seema Verma, administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Seeing a dollar amount next to a physician’s name without context is a dangerous practice

When an IT emergency strikes medical practices, there’s a small window to avoid big losses of time and money, so it’s best to have a plan in place.

Four out of 10 U.S. physicians reported they would be reluctant to seek formal medical care for treatment of a mental health condition for fear of repercussions to their licensure

More than eight years and $27 billion dollars later, electronic health records (EHRs) can at best be called a moderate success.

Medical Economics is announcing its first-ever “ChangeMakers in Medicine” award.

In the national opioid epidemic, there is plenty of finger pointing as to who deserves the most blame.

President Donald Trump is trying to let Obamacare disintegrate on its own

From identifying alternative prescriptions covered at a lower cost by a patient’s plan to serving as an educator on disease management, pharmacists can play a huge role in aiding patient care.

Medicare payment reform offers added incentives for making pharmacists part of a patient’s care delivery team.

For physicians, the main concern isn’t deciphering what a payer-government or commercial-feels is “quality” or collecting the data to prove the metrics are being met. The overarching question is whether this is really good for patients.

Doctors can play a key role in addressing the ills of healthcare in the U.S., according to journalist and physician Elisabeth Rosenthal

The early verdict from physicians is simple: “MACRA? I think I know what that is, but I’ll pass, thank you.”

Maintaining certification, specifically under the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), has come under fire for a number of reasons, ranging from test material that has no connection to day-to-day practice to the salaries of those running the organization.

In a conference room in the U.S. Capitol, 13 members of the U.S. Senate are working on changing the way physicians will practice medicine and patients will receive care for years to come.

While small practices now know exactly what “virtual groups” are, will they participate? Even CMS is skeptical of their success in 2018.