Healthcare's digital transformation: A conversation with Hadi Chaudhry of CareCloud

Medication bottles, witness accounts and a patient's normal baseline are often lost between the ambulance bay and the hospital bed. Here's what to ask at handoff, how EMS can separate observation from interpretation and why better prehospital record integration matters.

Only 22 of the articles in a Georgetown scoping review defined health equity, a gap the lead author said could steer resources toward the most advantaged groups.

Automated attacks don't check practice size, and a single-location clinic's patient records are worth as much to criminals as a hospital's. Here's how practices can close the most common gaps, from multifactor authentication and offline backups to a documented risk analysis and a downtime plan.

Early wins with ambient AI scribes, shared control over clinical decision support tools and incremental pilots can build the trust needed for a decades-long transformation.

Signing bonus repayment, malpractice tail coverage, lopsided notice periods and unpaid productivity pay can make leaving an employed position expensive. An analysis of 200 physician contracts shows what to check before you sign.

Free Medical Economics Practice Academy virtual event on Nov. 19 brings together experts sharing advice you can use right now.

The top news stories in medicine today: A Tennessee multi-physician practice agrees to pay $2.8 million to resolve allegations it billed nonphysician practitioners' services under physicians' provider numbers; CDC data show an early start to flu season; cannabis use is tied to higher stroke odds in an American Heart Association abstract.

Most physicians face a 2.31% conversion factor cut in January, while CMS pared back its same-day payment reduction and pushed the end of traditional MIPS to 2031.