Paying membership fees with pretax employer dollars held cost growth to 0.9% a year, but the numbers come with caveats physicians should know before pitching employers.

From opt-out handling and consent records to encryption and carrier registration, here's what a compliant patient texting system needs and the questions to ask before choosing a vendor.

Physicians have embraced ambient documentation faster than almost any technology before it. But every note it writes carries your signature, and lawyers, auditors and patients are starting to read those notes closely.

So many postnominal letters, so little room on ID badges and business cards.

Clear service pages, detailed provider bios and attention to review patterns help patients feel confident before they ever call the office.

What do physicians need to counter burnout and misinformation? Time with patients

Adding more tasks right now with no explanation is a formula for clinician burnout.

Rural docs say they need help as 'adequate' physician presence becomes the exception, not the norm.