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The American Medical Women's Association is the oldest multispecialty organization for women in medicine.

Learn about target date of mutual funds.

Understand the rules for coding a rectal exam performed at an office visit when billed with an E/M code.

Letters discuss maintaining hobbies and use of electronic health records.

How can my small group practice compete with the larger practices and the health system-owned practices, you may be asking?

How would you react if your doctor told you that you have 6 months to live?

Determine whether to use money from a 401(k) account to pay a mortgage.

Discover ways to finance your practice.

Whether to switch to a concierge practice is weighed.

To settle or not to settle? Read the article to determine how to discern the best choice.

Policies that require physicians to ask permission from a patient's insurance company before performing a treatment negatively impact patient care, according to survey results.

Physician-patient encounters are full of teachable moments.

Medicare provides access to physician care that is equal to or even better than care available to Americans with private plans, according to a survey conducted in September 2010 from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC).

Surgeons married to physicians appear to face more challenges in balancing their personal and professional lives than do surgeons whose partners work in a non-physician field or stay at home, according to a recent study.

Lower-income families in high-deductible health plans are more likely to delay or forgo care due to cost than higher-income families who have similar coverage, according to researchers from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars program, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Most frequent medication errors and adverse drug events in primary care practices are communication problems and lack of knowledge, according to a recent study. Researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine studied urban, suburban, and rural primary care practices in California, Connecticut, Oregon, and Texas that used MEADERS (Medication Error and Adverse Drug Event Reporting System) for 10 weeks, submitting 507 confidential event reports. Of the reports, 70% included medication errors only, whereas 2% included both medication errors and adverse drug events. Average time spent reporting an event was slightly more than 4 minutes.

Socioeconomic factors such as income and education levels, although strongly associated with broadband Internet use, are not the sole determinants of use, according to ?Digital Nation II,? a new report issued by the Department of Commerce?s Economics and Statistics Administration and National Telecommunications and Information Administration.

When researchers in Massachusetts used a computer-automated safety surveillance system of clinical outcomes registries for cardiovascular devices, they were able to identify a drug-releasing stent that had significantly higher rates of major adverse cardiac events than similar stents.

The American Medical Association has adopted a new policy in an effort to help physicians maintain a positive online presence and preserve the integrity of the patient-physician relationship.

Medical practices lag behind hospitals in their past efforts and future plans to address security issues related to electronic health records, according to responses to the 2010 HIMSS Security Survey, sponsored by Intel and supported by the Medical Group Management Association.

Patients are significantly more likely to abandon at the pharmacy prescriptions submitted electronically than those dropped off in person, according to the results of a study appearing in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Four primary care physician membership organizations issued a set of principles for Accountable Care Organizations, where a group of healthcare professionals accept a shared responsibility to deliver a broad set of medical services to a defined set of patients across the age spectrum and are held accountable for the quality and cost of care provided through alignment of incentives.

Determine whether to roll over a 401(k) or leave it be.

Discover ways to finance for a new office in your practice.

Consider best approaches to enhancing call coverage.

Experience with certain patients inevitably become retained as "teaching points," both positive and negative, to be tucked away for use in future patient care.

One physician and his physician wife made a pledge early in their careers that they would not treat family members.

Learn of new PECOS regulations to ensure reimbursement in 2011.