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Understanding the principles of leasing medical office space will enable practices to negotiate a lower-cost and equitable leasing agreement.

Smart use of your patient portal can not only help physicians meet meaningful use rules, but also foster better patient interactions.

Welcome to "This Old EHR," where we look at why your system is lot like older homes: built using outdated methods and in constant danger of structural issues.

Your medical practice's value plays an important part in its future. Here are six ways to boost your practice's value, starting today.

The gap between having an EHR and meeting meaningful use is wide. Here are three tips to narrow the divide.

Value-based reimbursement has a bad reputation because it is misunderstood. Done correctly, through an IPA, it could be primary care’s saving grace.

Recording family health history may be one of the easier meaningful-use objectives - because you likely already do it and due to an interesting loophole.

Unless a member of the medical practice team is intimately involved in the cash flow process, they probably don't know what is affordable for the practice.

Social marketing, search engine optimization, practice marketing' are all good, but 'here are three sure things to increase revenues at minimal cost.

It is important for practices to participate in patient-centered programs in order to focus their culture on improving the patient experience.

In the three years since the first providers began attesting, meaningful use has already started benefiting patients.

Here are some easy ways to improve productivity and empower your staff members.

Many medical practices today are sick; it's time to quit avoiding the symptoms and look for the cure.

The concept of population health is straightforward. Achieving it, not so much, because it requires numerous fundamental changes in our delivery system.

If you are willing to trade short-term frustration for long-term financial gain, here are three key areas of potential savings for your medical practice.

Technology can solve your business problems, but it has to be the right system with the right partner to truly result in success.

It appears medical practices, especially independent ones, are becoming more accepting of putting their medical data in the cloud

Physicians can survive and thrive, professionally and financially, if they will leave the smooth operation of their practice to business professionals.

Knowing how to calculate RVU values is critical if you are going to apply them to any other applications. Here's a primer for your medical practice.

Usually, an employee leaving is bittersweet. But one recent departure was just bitter given the employee's behavior leading up to and following her resignation.

Hospitals are not only marking up and selling 340B-discounted drugs, but also buying up clinics to take advantage of the discount – a clear "progress trap."

The debate over pros and cons of health IT persist, but to find success in your medical practice you need one key element: buy-in from the key players.

Online rating sites not only review physicians, but your entire practice, including the aesthetics. Here are five tips to improve positive patient feedback.

Patient-centered care is not just for primary-care practices. Here's what you need to know about the Patient-Centered Specialty Practice program.

Our 2014 Technology Survey, Sponsored by Kareo, gives insight on what mobile devices physicians are using daily and for what purposes at their medical practices.