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Featured Articles
Are You Burning Money? Know the Signs Most practices waste scads of money — then wonder why they need a microscope to see their bottom line. To keep you on the right road, we’ve posted the signs to a more efficient and productive practice.
EHR Incentives Update Confused about meaningful use and EHR certification? We’ve got the information you need to go confidently into the EHR marketplace. Here’s your guide.
Are You Sharing Too Much Online? You may be unwittingly violating your patients’ confidentiality — and trust — on your blog or social media site. Check out these guidelines for staying legal and ethical online.
Preparing for Reform’s New Patients In the wake of a “reformed” healthcare system, here’s how to take steps now to get your practice ready for an influx of newly insured Americans.
A Stress-Reduction Guide That Works Forget herbal tea and bubble baths — a physician’s stress requires a more aggressive treatment. Here’s how to dissect the causes of your stress and utilize effective strategies for finding solutions.
Check out our H1N1 flu resource page for information on how to prepare your practice for flu season.
Check out our Red Flags resource page for information and tools on the new identity theft regulation.
Podcasts
Listen to a conversation about the new meaningful use draft criteria for EHR incentives with Robert Tennant, senior policy advisor at the Medical Group Management Association.
Listen to a conversation with Congressman Michael Burgess, a Republican from Texas who was an OB/GYN before being elected to Congress, about healthcare reform and his unique perspective as a lawmaker and a physician.
Listen to a conversation with Joyce Dubensky, of the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, about what happens when medicine and religion interact, and how you can provide religiously conscious care.
Listen to an interview with Michelle Mudge-Riley,
who consults with physicians interested in transitioning into nonclinical jobs.
Read her series of essays, the Ex-Doctor’s Diary, based on her own experiences leaving clinical practice.
Listen to an interviewon the new Red Flags ruling with consultant Cheyenne Brinson.
Listen to an interview on the stimulus package with Justin Barnes of Greenway Medical Technologies and the EHR Association.
Listen to interviews with two physicians discussing how and why they use Twitter.
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Surveys
HOW MUCH SHOULD YOU PAY STAFF?
Find out with our latest Physicians Practice Staff Salary Survey. Click here to fill out our short Staff Salary questionnaire and we’ll also enter your name for a chance to win a $500 Visa gift card. You can view the results online and in the July/August 2010 issue of Physicians Practice.
The contest will run from December 1, 2009 through February 26, 2010. No purchase is necessary. Void where prohibited. See official rules for full details, available here.
Confused about Meaningful Use? Listen to our podcast with Robert Tennant, senior policy advisor at the MGMA, on the new meaningful use draft criteria for EHR incentives.
Going Green Check out our list of 12 tips for making your practice greener, and discover ways to do right by the earth and your wallet.
Be part of our Physician Writers Search and get published for fun and profit!
Each month, we'll give you a topic and a deadline, and you'll give us 1,000 to 1,250 words. If we select your submission, we'll publish your column in a future issue, to be seen by 200,000 of your colleagues, and we'll pay you $500.