Practice Management

The consequences of incomplete information at the point-of-care can be inconvenience, inefficiency, increased costss, and adverse, even life-threatening outcomes for patients.

Patient education always has been a priority in this author's office.

Burnout threatens sometimes when the frank reality of what you have to do overtakes the feeling of altruism that led you to do it in the first place.

The American Medical Women's Association is the oldest multispecialty organization for women in medicine.

Letters discuss maintaining hobbies and use of electronic health records.

How can my small group practice compete with the larger practices and the health system-owned practices, you may be asking?

How would you react if your doctor told you that you have 6 months to live?

Discover ways to finance your practice.

Whether to switch to a concierge practice is weighed.

Policies that require physicians to ask permission from a patient's insurance company before performing a treatment negatively impact patient care, according to survey results.

Physician-patient encounters are full of teachable moments.

Discover ways to finance for a new office in your practice.

Consider best approaches to enhancing call coverage.

Experience with certain patients inevitably become retained as "teaching points," both positive and negative, to be tucked away for use in future patient care.

One physician and his physician wife made a pledge early in their careers that they would not treat family members.

Daniel Z. Sands, MD, a practicing general internist, spoke at the American Academy of Family Physicians' Scientific Assembly about how engaging patients online can improve treatment adherence, lifestyle improvements, and outcomes.

Learn how to stay up with the competition that retail clinics offer to consumers.

"Wow, that was easy!" How wonderful it would be if you could utter those words once your transition to electronic health records was complete.

What specialty in medicine compromises the quality of its work based on its model of care? The author of this article points to primary care.

Congress voted in late November to halt a 23% payment cut that was to take effect this month to physicians who accept Medicare.

More than 6 million New York residents will have access to Web camera or telephone physician encounters, according to BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York and American Well.

One-third of 272 hospitals and practices surveyed that use an electronic health record system reported at least 1 known case of medical identity theft at their organization, according to results from HIMSS.

Letters discuss board certification and electronic health records.

Review 10 of the latest devices in Medical Economics' annual list of new technology products for practice.

Find out how to keep an employee even if you're unable to pay more in compensation.