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Ten steps to widespread adoption of free markets offering competition on healthcare price and value.

Physicians and their pain patients will continue to suffer such inconveniences, insults and financial burdens, until the epidemic of opioid overdoses ends.

Don’t be fooled. When mergers occur, patients and physicians lose; executives at the top are the only ones who truly win.

It stands to reason that the best way to deal with unaffordable healthcare isn’t to take a second mortgage out on the house, but to make healthcare more affordable.

If an office manager in Colorado can steal more than $600,000 from her physician sister, then the same can happen at your office. Here’s how to avoid it.

Asking Americans to improve their health should not be too much to ask.

While you may be tempted to bring your shiny new smart speaker to your office, you would be well advised to keep it at home until virtual assistance becomes well acquainted with HIPAA.

Will government ‘solutions’ to the opioid crisis make it worse?

When a security breach occurs, reporting it is essential. But what happens when that breach occurs within your business partner’s system rather than your own?

Physician-owned hospitals have strengths that are especially relevant during an age of value-based care and comparison healthcare shopping

Before joining a virtual group to report quality metrics, make sure to pick the right partners

Earlier this month, the U.S. Health and Human Services Department unveiled "American Patients First," President Trump's blueprint to lower drug prices and reduce out-of-pocket costs for patients. Read more.

You truly have to walk a mile in a patient’s shoes to find out the true barriers to improving their well-being.

Partnership of six associations aims to give private practices a voice in changing healthcare environment.

Experts say rather than a simple rebranding of current programs, CMS is refocusing on the true purpose of EHR use by hospitals and physicians.

The Joint Commission’s “misconceptions” on pain just don’t make sense as many see it as the key to today’s opioid crisis.

Partnership seeks to better understand the factors affecting how physicians practice medicine

Input from our "Your Voice" letters to the editor. Here, a letter on the ACA.

To say it is not easy to be a physician today is a gross understatement.

How top officials in the Trump Administration are faring.

The USDA’s plans to ship pre-filled food boxes to Americans is well-intentioned, but has its flaws as well.

Healthcare is not returning to paper, so rather than complain about the digital obstacles in their way, physicians should put that energy into meaningful change.

It's ironic: Experts in health IT concur that a major reason for healthcare systems shifted from paper to digital records was to reduce medical errors, but at the same time research has shown that EHRs actually introduce new kinds of errors.

For drugs or medical devices to be approved, there must be evidence that benefit significantly outweighs risk. This is to protect the public. A glaring exception is today's EHRs, which were mandated by the 2009 HITECH Act.

One doc's perspective on how the White House has done when it comes to fixing healthcare.