Law & Malpractice

If you're looking for the best way to use social media profitably, safely, and without taking one day off a week to produce six full-length articles on Facebook, here’s some concise direction.

Medical identity theft is on the rise at physician practices. But if you arm yours with key tech tools, you’ll lower your likelihood of being a victim.

As convenient as text messaging may be, there are certain issues for healthcare providers to consider when using any communication method with patients. Here are seven to consider.

Whether you've decided to retire, relocate, or retreat from practice, you can reduce the pain for your patients and staff by following these five guidelines.

Here are some key issues for either physicians on their way to starting up their own medical practice, or current owners seeking ways to refine their current office.

Judging by the extensive comments that have come in since CMS posted the Stage 2 proposal, stakeholders have plenty to say when it comes to how the rule will affect physician practices.

What you do online matters - and medical boards are paying attention.

If you plan to close your practice, you must determine how to handle your medical records and who you'll select as a custodian.

Connecticut’s HIE promises state physicians a slew of great benefits, so long as they have EHRs.

Electronic communication between healthcare providers has the potential to radically change healthcare. Referring physicians, consultants, and patients all stand to gain from its use; so why are physicians hesitating?

Practices should work with an attorney to draft a policy for terminating the physician-patient relationship. Here is a sample to get you started.

More physicians and practice staff are using smartphones and media tablets for work purposes. But while these gadgets are useful, they also present greater security risks.

Your front-desk staff is underappreciated but crucial to your success. Arm them with these high-tech helpers to get their jobs done right without burning out.

The “Seven Deadly Sins” easily represent human nature, business, and spending issues you must overcome as a healthcare executive and practice owner.

The government is getting more aggressive-a lot more aggressive-in going after possible fraud. Here's how to keep your practice out of legal hot water.

Use this sample patient dismissal letter if a patient consistently fails to keep appointments, and you are forced to dismiss him from your practice, or for other reasons.

How to keep your practice up to date with changing healthcare policies and industry standards.

Be warned that practices using Web-based electronic systems that lack appropriate privacy protection, whether by accident or not, could face the same fate.

Here's how to avoid a potentially expensive mistake by misclassifying an employee versus a contractor.

Few changes are as onerous as having to switch attorneys in the middle of an issue, especially in an active lawsuit.

I love working with physicians but they don’t always make it easy for those who work with them, whether it’s other physicians, lawyers, or consultants.

From building a great website to getting social-media savvy, here's what physicians should do to boost their cyber profiles.

Medical testing, and the effort to stop physicians from doing too much of it, is ramping up among regulators, insurers, and physician groups.

Thanks to new federal initiatives and the increased use of smart phones and tablets, more physicians are communicating with each other while on the go.

While social media can help a physician's professional reputation grow, the misuse of social media by others can be destructive.