Gabriel Perna

Planning on building an engaging website to attract patients? Here are nine tips that should get you started.

The U.S. Surgeon General issued an advisory recommending more Americans carry the opioid reversing drug naloxone.

A concierge doc shares his experiences with using chatbot technology as a way to provide patients more value.

President Trump relieved David Shulkin, MD, as Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), replacing him with White House physician, Rear Adm., Ronny Jackson, MD.

As more and more payers offer value-based contracts, how can practices negotiate favorable terms in this strange new territory?

The big health IT conference has finished. What did this editor learn from the annual show?

The EHR is the cause for many physicians to be burned out - but this doesn't have to be the case.

At HIMSS18, less regulation and more market-driven innovation was the name of the game for the ONC's top officials.

The Healthcare Administrative Technology Association talks to us at HIMSS18 about familiar pain points for practices.

Jared Kushner and Seema Verma spoke at HIMSS18 about the administration's vision for interoperability and better patient data access.

Just because a practice doesn't have as much PHI as a hospital doesn't mean it's safe from hackers, as this HIMSS18 speaker reveals.

Tech can do great things in health care, but it can also lead to a failure in communication.

A new proposal from the Trump administration aims to improve insurance options for patients, but some are concerned it will just raise premiums.

More practices are adopting mHealth technologies in different ways, but the lack of evidence surrounding these apps has some concerned.

The Budget Act that passed Congress recently included "small changes" to MACRA with the potential to make a big difference, says one expert.

More shakeups in the Trump administration's HHS with Brenda Fitzgerald, MD, resigning amid reports she traded in tobacco stocks.

In this podcast, AMA President David O. Barbe, MD talks about the accommodations that CMS has made towards small practices in MACRA.

The AMA and other healthcare stakeholder groups announced their intention this week to streamline the prior authorization process for physicians.

New guidance unveiled this week would allow states to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients, but one physician advocacy group is not on board.

The professional model of medicine is trying to reach a sweet spot, allowing physicians to remain independent but maximize the power of a larger organization.

Bringing primary-care physicians in touch with the local EMS is enabling team-based care in Washington. In turn, they can reduce unnecessary utilization of the ED.

Between the ACA, physician burnout, and MACRA, it was another eventful year in healthcare. Here are our favorite quotes from the past year.

The American College of Physicians (ACP) and other provider groups are not happy the recently-passed tax bill has repealed the individual mandate.

The year was full of plenty of headline news events surrounding the Affordable Care Act, HHS, opioids, and more.

In part 2 of our roundtable, three doctors vent about EHRs and extol the virtues of having a balanced work and home life.

In part one of our younger physician roundtable, three doctors expand on the toughest challenges faced in their burgeoning careers.

The CVS-Aetna $69 billion merger is going to cause a lot of headaches for primary-care physician practices.

Due to the "pick your pace" flexibility for year one of the Medicare Quality Payment Program, one expert says it's hard to evaluate how physicians did.

Pharma exec Alex Azar could be next in line to take over as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

A young doc spent six months as an employed physician, hated it, and started his own practice. Here’s what he learned and how it can help others.