April 29th 2025
Communication, consistency and uniformity across multiple locations will pay dividends in patient satisfaction and profitability.
April 24th 2025
Teen drinking poses serious risks to adolescent health, affecting brain development and increasing addiction potential. There are effective strategies to address this issue.
April 22nd 2025
Earth Day and any day is a great day to analyze environmental waste in health care — and possible solutions for it.
With burnout, worker shortages and razor-thin margins, primary care doctors are in trouble in the United States, and Medicare is not helping.
April 21st 2025
How zero-trust security protects your medical practice from inside out.
Want better outcomes? Improve patient communication
There are communication breakdowns happening throughout the entire continuum of care. Is technology the solution?
HIPAA: At what cost?
Medicine needs to learn from Amazon that privacy has a price
A remedy for burnout: It’s time to listen
Is direct primary care a solution to physician burnout?
Time to retire the "patient consumer"
Treating patients as consumers changes the doctor-patient relationship in ways that could harm care.
EHRs should be a tool, not a task
We must commit to enhancing EHRs to make them more usable for physicians
How genomic insights combat physician burnout
A growing number of organizations are adopting tools to bring the advances of genomic science into the physicians’ workflow, and early evidence shows its helping.
Within the healthcare industry, even high wage-earners are often financially fragile
Being a doctor doesn’t guarantee you financial security
How mobile tech is transforming healthcare
There are countless examples of technology changing the way doctors, nurses, and patients operate.
Why patient experience matters in healthcare collections
As out-of-pocket costs and patient liabilities rise, medical practices struggle to get paid for their services.
Blockchain: A tool with a future in healthcare
There are three areas where blockchain can be effectively applied in healthcare.
Medical Economics cartoon: Are your costs too transparent?
Price transparency is one thing, but this is ridiculous.
Transparency foes work to cloud Trump’s executive order
Real transparency is the single, first, and most important step toward bringing down healthcare costs and creating a competitive marketplace.
Your voice: Dealing with the death of a patient
Readers react to recent articles.
The challenges of being a female doctor
There is a crisis in healthcare with respect to how its female physicians-the fastest growing and most prized talent pool-are being treated.
Mental mayhem: The peril of multitasking in medicine
Why the multitasking demanded in our work is likely an under-appreciated, but substantive factor in physician burnout
Addressing the generational shift in patient use of primary care physicians
Financial success tips from a physician
Financial advice from a physician turned financial planner.
2019 Medical Economics Physician Writing Contest Official Rules
The 2019 Medical Economics Physician Writing Contest Official Rules
Call for submissions: The 2019 Medical Economics Physician Writing Contest
This year's topic is "How I became a better doctor"
In healthcare, why do talkers earn more than doers
Physicians are the doers of healthcare, and its time for them to take back control of medicine
Your voice: The future of primary care warrants discussion
Our readers speak out on recent articles.
Helping patients with brand name drug costs
The challenge of getting paid for digital health entrepreneurs
Doctors are being encouraged to seize the entrepreneurial moment as a new breed of tech founders with innovative solutions
Funny Bone: Privacy is a serious matter
Patient privacy is dealt with in different ways by different doctors.
Employed vs independent doctors: Numbers don't tell the whole story
Why independence is not a thing of the past. Rather, it is the future of medicine.
Funny bone: The magazines are slightly out of date
What patients really think of your waiting room.
Your voice: Medical malpractice is a major policy issue; doctors should pay attention
https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/affordable-care-act/Our readers respond to recent articles.
Your voice: Empowered patients - Are they just misinformed?
Our readers respond to recent articles.
Eliminating pharma rebates will raise costs for physicians and payers
A proposed rule to limit rebates paid by drug companies to pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) could negatively impact physicians, payers and patients.
Healthcare disruptors: How doctors can shake up the medical industry
Physicians spend their lives analyzing problems-so why not translate those skills to developing doctor-friendly technology solutions?