Opinion

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.

Despite skepticism from some physician groups, updated blood pressure guidelines are good for patients and physicians.

An innovative telemedicine model could substantially reduce the burden of chronic hepatitis C infection.

Timely treatment with direct-acting antivirals is highly cost-effective in virtually all patients infected with HCV.

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.

In the ongoing examination of U.S. healthcare costs, one economist has found the lone trouble spot: physician salaries.

Technology and workflow fixes are keys to success

The correct way to code when evaluation and management is time-based.

In the book, “What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear,” Danielle Ofri, an associate professor of medicine at the New York University School of Medicine, examines the state of physician-patient communication and what can be done to reduce the distractions and get back to focusing on improving the patient’s health.

Many physicians don’t know where to begin when starting their own practice. Finding and getting referred to the right professional team often is the best first step.

Failure to properly secure electronic Protected Health Information (PHI) can have drastic consequences.

Building blocks to better health.

"Its the society we live in now. I find my patients listen to my advice more if I keep it under 140 characters."

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.

To get ready, we are teasing each challenge and how it has affected the healthcare industry. Read on to find out how physicians have been struggling to manage patient satisfaction, and lack thereof, this year.

What the CVS-Aetna deal means for PCPs

Savvy management of prediabetes may help prevent the disease from occurring, says endocrinologist Thomas W. Donner, MD, of Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Comprehensive management of a patient's diabetes is much more than prescribing medication.

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.

After nearly a decade of regular use, it’s time to rethink and restart how physicians use electronic health records (EHRs), according to Seema Verma, administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

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.

Seeing a dollar amount next to a physician’s name without context is a dangerous practice

Healthcare workers can share confidential data between multiple people or applications easily and quickly while meeting HIPAA’s technical and administrative safeguard requirements.