Practice Management

How to keep your patients and your staff healthy

Experts offer best practices to balance the burden of data entry with the necessity of making connections

Physicians must change with it.

Weigh in on the ongoing debate about the ownership of medical records. Who do you think should control them? 

Take a methodical approach to growth

A slideshow with nine things physicians can do to make the prior authorization process easier.

4 ways to address the needs of LGBTQ patients.

Time to brush up on some particularly festive ICD-10 codes

Telehealth solves many challenges by enabling easy, convenient contact between patients and physicians

Information is certainly not going to slow down, so doctors should come up with a plan to keep up so they are ready to have informed conversations with patients.

From booking first appointments to follow-ups and final billing, providers should consider how they can make the patient experience better. 

Machine learning technologies offer providers opportunities to address rising risk and deliver better care.

Hiring a good administrator is as important as hiring a good physician. But, how do you find the right administrator for your practice?

There are three aspects to medical financial hardship: material, psychological, and behavioral. They all can impact adherence to physician treatment plans and follow-up care.

What patients want is a single and rewarding patient experience across all touchpoints, which can be best achieved by following these hybrid communication best practices. 

A slideshow on how much time practices spent on prior authorizations in 2018.

Physicians spend their lives analyzing problems-so why not translate those skills to developing doctor-friendly technology solutions?

Emerging growth and quality opportunities accompany CMS’s growing enthusiasm for RPM.

Here are three recommendations for health systems looking to improve physician engagement with data and evidence.

The powerful drivers of demand for healthcare services and workers have been chugging along unseen by most.

What does this mean for those documenting E/M services, assigning the code levels, and auditing them?

If your practice gives patients pricing information, you’ll be one of the few offering that information-which will separate you from the competition.

In-house medication dispensing can save patients money and improve medication adherence

By improving exam room design and workflow data and equipment, medical practices can facilitate a better experience for both patients and caregivers.

While there are obvious concerns over primary care shortages, nurse practitioners practicing unsupervised is NOT a safe or wise answer.