There Is No Such Thing as Too Much TV in This Doctor’s Office: A Different Approach to Patient Engagement
A recent Accenture report found that patients in the United States are increasingly accessing...
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Business of Medicine
Capture the Critical Driver of Your Practice’s Financial Success: Physician Time
Pop Quiz: What were you doing during the financial presentation at your last board meeting? A....
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Strategies for Physician Succession & Retirement
Due to the busy nature of many medical practices, planning for future events like physician...
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CDC August Update: Zika Case Counts in the U.S.
Laboratory-confirmed Zika virus disease cases reported to ArboNET by state or territory (as of...
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Managing Difficult Patients
Regardless of the setting that a physician practices, there is a high likelihood that they will...
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Maximizing Potential With Social Media
As the use of social media continues to grow in leaps and bounds, physicians are increasingly...
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Healthcare Prices & Quality of Care
Recently, the government, insurers, and other companies have made efforts to make price and...
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U.S. Opens Door to a Change in Blood Donation Policy for Gay Men
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration opened the door to a change in its blood donor deferral...
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4 Tools to Project Your Practice’s End-of-Year Finances
Take steps now to avoid negative year-end shareholder compensation and tax surprises. Although...
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2016 National Technology Survey
In a recent technology survey of advanced practice providers, and practice administrators, 19% of...
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System forgives sexual abuse by doctors across US
Sexual abuse by doctors against patients is surprisingly widespread, yet the fragmented medical...
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Heroes in Medicine: Daniel R. Lattanzi, MD
Congratulations to Daniel R. Lattanzi, MD, of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for...
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It’s time for NHS England to ‘do the right thing’ and fund PrEP for HIV prevention, say experts
Delays by NHS England will cost lives, argue public health experts. PrEP’s role is...
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Improving ED Care for LGBT Patients
As the patient census has become increasingly diverse, it has become more challenging for EDs to...
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Overestimating the effect of medical errors can be detrimental
An issue with inflated numbers like 251,000 and 440,000 is that they are repeated by naïve...
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Study underscores ongoing need for HIV safety net program
A new study of insurance coverage of people with HIV concludes that a decades-old program that...
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Decisions made in Orlando: Is there any law more misunderstood than HIPAA?
On the morning of the tragic mass shooting in Orlando, a tweet by CNN stated, “The White House...
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Avoid Patient Abandonment: 8 Tips for Termination
The law governing medical abandonment is predicated on the more dependent status of the patient in...
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Condolence letters when patients die: Docs say it’s a personal choice
No standard practice when it comes to sending a sympathy letter to family – should it stay...
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Should Doctors Wear White Coats? The Debate Continues
An infectious disease fellow at the Harvard Medical School is convinced that white coats are...
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