Primary care is inefficient, inconvenient, and often inaccessible, optimized neither for patient experience nor positive outcomes.
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Here are some tips for starting your own practice and setting yourself — and your patients — up for success from the get-go.
Physicians must lead a team effort to generate support at every level of the organization.
Specialty cyber coverage and tailored liability insurance products sold to health care providers is available to protect affected organizations hacked or threatened through cyber extortion schemes.
Should we tell patients that they are not compliant when they counter argue?
Meeting modern patient expectations is key to success
With in-person visits down, social distancing measures in effect and no current COVID-19 vaccine, physicians are leveraging new digital tools to survive.
Health care is one of many sectors poised for AI transformation, but it poses unique challenges, opportunities and considerations
There is movement to streamline the administrative processes that are burdensome to physicians, their staff, and patient care.
The COVID-19 pandemic has put obesity in the spotlight, illustrating the need to focus on screening and treating it more aggressively than before
Health care organizations must proactively operationalize key risk mitigation strategies aimed at effectively shoring up their cyber defenses.
A unified data ecosystem will provide the foundation for the next generation of patient-care technology.
24% of concierge practices reported higher revenues in 2020 than any prior year.
Even small deals are drawing greater government interest
Innovative payment models — like pay-first and direct primary care — enhance financial stability and patient engagement for independent practices.
From Congress to employers: shifting the primary care paradigm through efficient payment models to embrace innovative solutions, improve access, and transform health care delivery.
Whole-person health underscores the importance of collaboration between primary care physicians and behavioral health professionals, and answers who is accountable when patients express suicidal ideation.
Pharmaceutical giant Merck sues HHS, CMS directors in first legal challenge to law passed last summer.
Success of value-based care programs depends on getting the right information to clinicians when it’s needed
People, process, technology and finance are keys to success
Medical practices must go beyond simply offering competitive salaries and benefits packages to attract new talent and keep their best clinicians and administrative staff working for them.
Medical billing is complex and time-consuming. Does it have to be?
It's time for pharmaceutical companies and others to innovate and disrupt the distribution side of treatment.
Understanding how AI can help providers — as well as its limitations and what checks can mitigate its downsides — will help foster trust and confidence in it.
Funding cuts to the CDC threaten vital research and patient care for millions with autoimmune diseases, risking future treatments and public health.
By using medication management tools and strategies, providers can improve adherence, reduce healthcare costs, and improve care quality.
Is tobacco use still a national health problem? Yes, and primary care physicians are in position to help patients quit.
One in four Americans experience functional decline by age 65, making fall risk management crucial for primary care practices.