Lifestyle

Travel during March and April can be hazardous for adults and families who are headed for any of the spots favored by the hordes of college-age revelers on spring break. Steering clear of their favorite beach locales -- places like Cancun, Miami Beach, and Panama City Beach -- is a must for those who are looking for a more relaxing and peaceful vacation.

There aren't many good news stories about banks these days so if you're looking for a new bank you may be facing the quagmire of what to look for and who to turn to when searching for a new bank. The answer may rest upon what your personal and or business banking needs are.

Securing Specialists for Diagnosis and Treatment is Essential in Financial Matters

The turgid healthcare debate has thrust into the limelight the inadequacies of the traditional practice model with its dependence for survival on high-overhead offices, health insurance and fee-for-service reimbursements. In order to prevail financially, medical practices are going to need to take stock of their business models and look to alternatives.

If I were starting a new physician business today, I'd: create an online video program teaching the public all about low back pain; what aggravates a bad back, what activities to avoid, a full-on low-back stretching and exercising program...

You are about to face your largest fiscal challenge ever: reimbursement cuts, tax increases, and lowest common denominator planning. The most obscure of the three is also your biggest liability.

You are about to face your largest fiscal challenge ever: reimbursement cuts, tax increases, and lowest common denominator planning. The most obscure of the three is also your biggest liability.

Google offers an amazing array of tools for physicians who make the most of the Internet to market and promote their practices or business. I haven't exploited most of them to anywhere near their fullest potential. However, one tool I have been using for some time is the Google Alerts tool.

Following a sizzling growth spurt in 2007 and subsequent slowdown that mirrored the economic downturn, retail health clinics seem poised to rebound.

HHS National Coordinator for HIT David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, spoke about the value of adopting EHRs during a lecture at the ACC.10.

From new banking fees to increasing traffic fines and higher education costs, the consumer is getting gouged left and right. So what can you do about ubiquitous fee creep? Here are four strategies.

Strategies for success: narrow your investment choices, manage your mood, bet strong when others are weak. Obviously, it's a bit more complicated than that. Read on for the full explanation.

I've long been a fan of Professor Srikumar Rao, the author of "Are You Ready for Success?" and the soon to be released "Happiness at Work: Be Resilient, Motivated, and Successful - No Matter What." I love the measured calm and reassurance of his written voice as he reminds us over and over about what really matters.

E-prescribing can reduce errors in community-based practices, according to a study published in Journal of General Internal Medicine.

In these recessionary times, with revenues falling in all jurisdictions, governmental bodies have been scrambling to find income where they can. And with T-A-X being a 4 letter word, they have been creative in coming up with euphemistic alternatives for the same thing.

Financing a college education involves more than simply writing a check for the cost of tuition, room and board. For starters, that's a pretty hefty check being written nowadays. How you obtain the funds to write that check requires research and careful planning, because there are options to consider.

Doctors are full of ideas for businesses. It must be all that frustrated creativity manifesting in the shower! Not all of these ideas, however, will make for a sound entrepreneurial physician business.

We are reaching a critical juncture in the steamroll toward healthcare reform a majority of Americans don't want. The political arrogance of a President trying to ram through a sweeping legislative change by means of reconciliation is staggering. The willful disregard of an informed and engaged American public is sobering.

This doc understands municipal bonds and is happy with the returns they've generated, but wonders if he should be diversifying his portfolio with annuities. Whether he should depends on how they would fit into the overall asset allocation.

Approached with an offer to fund a guaranteed insurance contract that will triple in value over 13 years, this doc wonders whether the proposal is sound. It seems, though, that the numbers don't add up.

The economy will recover eventually, but until then, how we manage depends on how we plan for the tough times ahead. The following advice is pretty basic, but it will keep you away from the financial fringes that so many people are clinging onto, unfortunately.

You're nowhere near ready to figure out your taxes and the filing deadline is only six weeks away. Here's an option: file IRS Form 4868 to request an automatic extension, which gives you until October 15 to get your act together.

Now that CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology have released meaningful use criteria, physicians have a checklist for selecting the right HER to assure they'll meet the standards. And there's still time.

An e-mail exchange last week with an Apple customer service staff member about an iTunes account problem provided me with enough fodder to acknowledge just how impressive a company Apple is when you dig behind the perfect design of their products (despite my Android phone!).

My wife has identified "The Rule of Two" which states that it is impossible to get anything done involving business people without at least two phone calls or two visits. People, can you Just Do Your Job?

Two bits of advice stand behind Warren Buffett's recent success during the economic recovery – buy when everyone else is selling and stand pat when everyone is buying.

The Entrepreneurial MD Newsletter's article for March is about as pragmatic as one can get! It's devoted to answering a question I'm frequently asked by my physician (and non-physician) coaching clients.

A buy-sell agreement can prevent unwanted ownership, eliminate the need for negotiation with surviving spouses and/or children, and perform the role of a succession plan, providing for continuity or orderly succession of business management.