Practice Management

The Plustek D430 scanner from Plustek Technology Inc. is designed to help practices transition patient registration documents to electronic health record systems.

Although more medical students are turning to primary care professions again, the marketplace is still expected to face a shortage of primary care physicians in the coming years.

Employing others involves risk, time, and effort for which you deserve to be compensated. You can employ more physicians, but most practice owners need to critically evaluate the financial impact of hiring non-physician practitioners, simply because of the reduced labor cost.

If you are purchasing an electronic health record system for the first time or are considering switching systems, assess the needs of the practice and then consider the different system platforms (cloud- or SAAS-based or server-based).

You might think that a limited liability company (LLC) will just help provide tax benefits. Discover the other benefits that LLCs can provide.

A doctor who makes house calls may seem like something hopelessly old fashioned, but recent surveys indicate that house calls might be making a comeback. Discover what the new house call looks like and how you can use them in your practice.

Hypertension affects one in three adults and is responsible for almost $50 billion in direct medical expenses each year. Find out what you can do to help patients win the war against this preventable disease.

The major impact you can expect to see in your practice due to ICD-10 is a drop in productivity. Here's what to expect.

Becoming a Patient-Centered Medical Home isn’t as simple as marking a few items off a checklist and incorporating them into a traditional practice. The transition usually involves a culture change within the practice and buy-in from the care delivery team to improve efficiency and patient health. Here's what you need to do.

Registries can help small family and internal medicine practices track and monitor data to improve care of patients with chronic illnesses.

Healthcare providers have until September 23 to put into place internal policies and procedures needed to comply with sweeping changes coming to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

MGMA–ACMPE has released the DataDive: 2012 Procedural Profile Module.

The Glide HD from Ergotron is a low-profile, height-adjustable display wall mount.

Social media are an excellent way to boost your job search, according to a physician recruiter. Here are his tips.

Readers comment on February 25, 2013 cover article, 'The obesity epidemic.'

A summary of the violation categories under the HIPAA Omnibus Rule and the financial penalties for each.

The requirements of the HIPAA Omnibus Rule make it more important than ever for practices to encrypt patient health information.

A new survey that shows a "seismic shift" in medicine provides primary care physicians with a strong argument that they should be compensated more generously by hospitals.

[VIDEO] Primary care doctors earn hospitals more revenue than specialists, 44% of eligible providers have received EHR incentives, and more.

Forty-four percent of the nation's eligible providers have received electronic health records incentive payments from the federal government, according to CMS.

Peter Ubel, MD-an author, columnist, and Duke University professor-discusses several controversial topics, including whether physician salaries need to drop and whether the primary care shortage is real.

Preparing anecdotes and questions to ask employers are some of the best pieces of advice for physicians getting ready for a job interview, according to one expert. Discover her other advice.

Doctors may change their behavior if aware of test costs, a search engine for rare diseases, why healthcare cost growth has slowed, more.

Primary care was among the specialties least likely to receive payments from the medical device and pharmaceutical industries, according to an analysis of Massachusetts' records of industry financial relationships with physicians.

A new report shows that median first-year guaranteed compensation for primary care physicians rose about 3% last year to $180,000.

If primary care physicians have a bigger enemy than the RUC, Brian Klepper hasn't heard about it.

A new app lets patients tailor healthcare information for multiple individuals, obtain healthcare tips, create personal health alerts, keep track of medical check-ups and vaccinations, and learn about benefits and services covered under the Affordable Care Act.

Changing Medicare's policy to permit patients to self-administer injectable drugs in their homes could create "substantial savings" without inhibiting patient safety or treatment effectiveness, according to a recent NEJM editorial.