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Readers’ top tips for making the most out of a busy practice day.

Read on to find out how physicians have been struggling to deal with payers this year.

While some third-world nations are making great strides, recent reports suggest massive funding efforts are yielding small results in other parts of the world.

Declining numbers of physicians are entering infectious disease care, but patients with HIV are living longer. A new report proposes a different kind of training track.

In all aspects of healthcare, we must be able to listen to, and keep confidential, anything that a patient shares, in whatever form it comes. By the same token, we must be able to communicate frankly and openly with patients conveying the necessary message.

Read on to find out how physicians have been battling quality measures this year.

No matter the profession, everyone wishes they could go back in time and provide sage wisdom to their younger selves to help ease the path that awaits them.

Many patients with HIV experience interruptions in care at some point in their disease.

Two new reports investigate the impact of behaviors and comorbidities and how they affect health outcomes in HIV patients.

HIV/AIDS management has come a long way, but there is still work to do to support patients with what is now a chronic disease.

Antiretrovirals have done a good job in halting the progression of HIV to AIDS, but new gene editing technologies could result in a cure.

We are teasing each challenge and how it has affected the healthcare industry. Read on to find out how physicians have been struggling this year to remain independent in the face of value-based care initiatives

I was recently inspired by another article in Medical Economics, and curiously, have a solution for each legitimate gripe, based on decades of sorting through the combatants in this health-care disaster we’re engaged in on a daily basis.

For the fifth consecutive year, Medical Economics will reveal its list of obstacles physicians say they face in the coming year and, more importantly, how to overcome them. As we did last year, we asked readers to tell us what challenges they face each day and where they need solutions.

"They are called 'Next Gen' ACOs because ti will take a generation before they finally figure it all out."

Tips for physicians to address high blood pressure, meet value-based care targets

The new guidance means that nearly 103 million Americans will now carry a diagnosis of high blood pressure following a visit to their physician.

We've all heard the outrage over the sudden rise in the price of the EpiPen. What we hear far less often is how common the sudden and dramatic rise in many other pharmaceutical prices has become in recent years. It can be easy to forget issues like this until they affect us personally.

Interoperability is important and probably the main driver of cost savings. So where are the IT vendors on interoperability? The answer is probably close to nowhere.

The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) is not going to hold down the increasing cost of Medicare by adding over 1,600 pages of new regulations to the program. Instead, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) should have reduced the cost of traditional Medicare by eliminating the requirement for detailed documentation of evaluation and management (E/M) charges.

The practice of medicine in our current healthcare system is making physicians sick, with levels of burnout and mental strain increasing across every specialty.

President Donald Trump has nominated the former pharma executive to lead the nation’s healthcare agency.

Much like the Accountable Care Act (ACA) debate in 2010, the current political debate over repealing and replacing the ACA is focused on coverage and cost.

When it comes to promoting investment in primary care, Oregon might very well be the country’s current champion innovator.

Here are five things to know about how a Medicare AWV can assist both patients and practices.

Better patient engagement means better outcomes, which means better value. Here are six ways more involved patients can boost value-based payments.

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