Practice Management

According to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, health information is not individually identifiable if it does not identify an individual and if the covered entity has no reasonable basis to believe that it can be used to identify an individual.

In the report “Professionalism in the use of social media,” the American Medical Association offers advice for physicians.

Privacy, security, professionalism remain top priorities as use of e-messaging, patient portals, and social media grows.

In an attempt to get past politics and ideology, a group of researchers recently published a report in Health Affairs that examined the health systems in Canada, England, France and Germany for insights on how the United States could better control costs.

Selected comments from a thread discussing whether or not primary care doctors should do locum tenens work in New Zealand. Comments are taken from the subreddit /r/medicine on reddit.

The American College of Physicians has unveiled new booklets and DVDs designed to help patients and physicians manage pre-diabetes, gout, obesity and weight loss, and Alzheimer's disease.

President Barack Obama's proposed 2014 budget includes roughly $300 billion in Medicare savings, reforms to the sustainable growth rate, and cuts to graduate medical education.

There's only problem with CNN"s recent attention-grabbing article on physician practice bankruptcies: We have no idea if its basic premise is even true.

Primary care physicians aren’t yet seeing the higher fees for treating Medicaid patients promised under the Affordable Care Act.

Walgreens is ready to take retail clinics a step further, with an announcement yesterday that the pharmacy chain will begin offering chronic care in addition to immunizations and acute care.

A new proposal for repealing Medicare’s sustainable growth rate formula is incubating in the U.S. House of Representatives, and its authors are seeking comments on it from doctors and other health professionals.

Solo physicians shouldn't get too excited about the prospect of a meaningful use exemption - yet. The bill, called the EHR Improvements Act, is a long, long way from becoming law.

TEDMED exists to break down silos in the healthcare world that have been built up in part by specialists going deeper and deeper into their specialties, which can prevents experts from seeing beyond their own sometimes narrow viewpoints.

Primary care physicians (PCPs) are in the greatest demand by hospitals, medical groups, and other healthcare organizations seeking to fill staffing needs, a new survey indicates.

Doctors as a group are pessimistic about the future of their profession-worrying about clinical autonomy and income-but primary care physicians are the least satisfied in their work when compared with their specialist peers, according to a new report.

If you thought demonstrating meaningful use annually to receive electronic health record incentive payments was enough, think again.

Reddit asked medical students and doctors "What do you consider absolutely important to know by heart? What do you look up?" We highlighted our favorite comments.

A bipartisan bill introduced in Congress would establish a 5-year pilot to test four models aimed at educating and training primary care physicians in an effort to build up the PCP workforce.

Medical Economics unveils a redesign with this issue that presents information in an energetic package that busy physicians will find easy to navigate.

Jay Wolfson, DrPH, JD, is the Distinguished Service Professor of Public Health and Medicine and associate vice president for health law, policy, and safety at the University of South Florida in Tampa. He recently spoke with Medical Economics Editor-in-Chief Lois A. Bowers, MA, about the ways in which your future colleagues are being educated-and why.

The comprehensive, nationwide effort that the Physician Payment Sunshine Act represents is desperately needed, says Steven Nissen, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic. Others, however, have concerns about privacy, accuracy in reporting, and patients' ability to understand reported information.

Immunization rates are so low for adults, the situation has hastened new calls from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for physicians to assess patient vaccination histories and intervene when appropriate to increase adherence.

A new online tool will make it possible for physicians to gain detailed information about community health trends.

Stage 2 of meaningful use for EHRs is on the horizon. Here's how to survive this challenge with flying colors.

The physicians in Medical Economics' EHR Best Practices Study have checked in once again. See how well they've adjusted to the EHR life.