Practice Management

Maximizing Potential With Social Media

Aug 12, 2016

As the use of social media continues to grow in leaps and bounds, physicians are increasingly...

Healthcare Prices & Quality of Care

Aug 8, 2016

Recently, the government, insurers, and other companies have made efforts to make price and...

4 Tools to Project Your Practice’s End-of-Year Finances

Aug 5, 2016

Take steps now to avoid negative year-end shareholder compensation and tax surprises. Although...

2016 National Technology Survey

Jul 12, 2016

In a recent technology survey of advanced practice providers, and practice administrators, 19% of...

Highlights from CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance — United States, 2015

Jul 6, 2016

Since the earliest year of data collection, the prevalence of most health-risk behaviors has...

Collaborating to Manage Physician Burnout

Jun 6, 2016

Research has shown that physician burnout is a growing epidemic throughout the United States. “In...

Novel Strategy May Improve Seasonal Flu Vaccine Effectiveness

Jun 2, 2016

New findings describe a novel strategy for predicting how circulating influenza viruses will...

Most people mistakenly believe they’re allergic to penicillin

May 12, 2016

Newswise — Although widely reported, true penicillin allergies are rare. It’s time for your...

Conference Highlights: Hospital Medicine 2016

Mar 10, 2016

Analyzing Malpractice Claims Against Hospitalists The Particulars: Hospitalists often have...

Will Medicare’s Published Physician Quality Data Push Your Patients Away?

Oct 21, 2015

By: Theresa Hush, CEO & Co-Founder, ICLOPS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) won’t be the only group scrutinizing your quality and cost data anymore. As the next step toward value-based healthcare, Medicare...

Doctor Curmudgeon® : “I Flunked the ICD-10 Test”

Oct 2, 2015

By Doctor Curmudgeon® How could this be? I took this stupid test that I had to take for...

How Online Medical Crowdsourcing Helped Save a Life

Aug 19, 2015

There is nothing more horrifying in the world than a parent watching their child get sick and die....

Where Big Data Does Not Exist

Aug 3, 2015

The crush to achieve big data goals drives the American healthcare system. Many experts, I among them, feel that the system lost its way and forgot about the people we treat. The company and government heads clamor to devise the...

What Happens if You Break Non-Competes?

Jul 28, 2015

Non-compete agreements, while frowned on by the AMA, continue to be used frequently in many states. A variety of state courts regularly enforce non-compete agreements, with certain exceptions. Why Do Non-Compete Agreements...