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Physician practices are the keystone to the healthcare industry’s shift to value-based care. Technology tools such data analytics and automated communication can help practices provide preventive care and assist with population health management duties.

An app that gets patients to pick up their phone without giving them your personal number.

Mobile technology has the capacity to improve your practice, specifically when it comes to tablet-based patient care.

As physicians, we tend to care for the wellbeing of others such as our patients or our family members. This app helps us help ourselves.

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

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

Here are three guideline mobile apps that will help primary-care physicians get their jobs done.

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

Technology is blurring healthcare's privacy lines. There's no better example of this than a tech-savvy adolescent reaching out to a physician for medical help.

Our editorial advisory board tells us their favorite apps to use in medicine. What made the list?

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

Mobile is in as three out of four practices saying they use mobile health (mHealth) in their practice on a weekly basis.

Providing lots of valuable information and smart calculator tools, Pedi QuikCalc is a valuable resource for inpatient and outpatient physicians.

Patients want in-demand service. Here are a few ways to provide that to them at your practice.

Practice owners and physicians should heed the lessons of Bodega, a startup company that got universally ripped on for bad branding.

Virtual patient simulation app allows medical professionals to practice quick decision making in a clinical scenario without the real-life consequences.

President Trump announced a new telehealth initiative at the VA Health System this week. Also docs are undertreating opioid addiction, researchers say.

Text messaging allows practice's to easily interact with patients, saving time and hassle, while also improving the overall patient experience.

Despite minor user interface issues, Meducation provides a free method for physicians to continually update their clinical knowledge.

Only 5 percent of practices are using technology that monitors their patients' health status. Why haven't wearables made an impact in clinical care?

Email marketing is a great way to gain new customers, here are some tips to run a successful email marketing campaign.

When it comes to drawMD, an app that allows clinicians to illustrate and modify medical images, the pictures do speak a thousand words.

The CMS Actuary projects that if the AHCA passes into law, the number of uninsured Americans will increase by 13 million by 2026.

This month, our physician reviewers check out a medical translator app offering 13 languages for better physician-to-patient communication.

Cybercrime is a threat to even the smallest of practices, here are six ways to prevent criminals from accessing your patients' data.