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Five strategies for physicians to ensure patients continue their path to better health after leaving the hospital.

If you think a patient advocate is a nuisance, think again. They help physicians, just as much as they help patients.

Changes in the healthcare industry are necessitating new roles at practices. Here are seven positions you might consider adding to assist patients and staff.

Listening and acting on what you hear is key to engaging your practice employees. Here are six strategies to keep staff happy and productive.

Understand how to protect-and avoid infringing on-copyrights, patents, and trade secrets at your practice.

To avoid a transaction failure, practices need to think about integration through every step of the process.

Medical practice owners and execs need to understand and protect their intellectual property, as well as avoid legal exposure of infringing on the legal rights of others.

A recent article in The New York Times pointed out how some tech advancements in medicine are done at the harm of patients.

If you are considering merging your practice with another group, make sure you are doing so because it's the right thing to do.

The economics of healthcare are inexorably shifting risk from payers to providers. Independent providers who fail to join risk facing groups are doomed.

People don't like being told what to do - they prefer to be encouraged to think through how to best manage a situation.

It's necessary to create space in our personal and professional lives. It is better for us, for our patients, and for our families.

Daylight Saving Time is good time to check on things at the office, such as batteries and old equipment that need replacing.

Medical practices are carrying more financial waste than they realize, according to experts. Here are a few areas to trim the fat.

It’s so important to step back, get off the emotional rollercoaster, and find perspective when it comes to monthly data.

Look at the easy stuff to reduce the cost of overhead at your practice and go from there. There's a lot of money to be saved.

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

Chicken noodle soup for the medical practice staff soul. Here are ways to bring together different age groups.

Some physicians find relief from burnout by getting involved in humanitarian work.

An explainer of the AAPA's Optimal Team Practice (OTP) initiative and why it's important to improving care.

It's always important to be on top of HIPAA requirements, here's what physicians need to know for 2018.

There are many examples where an expired agreement can accidently violate Stark Law. Here's what you should know.

It is important to evaluate whether you want to consolidate your medical practice’s position or find ways to grow.

Leadership teams wonder why their best-laid plans have gone awry. Here's how employees feel.

Telemedicine is convenient and easy, but that doesn’t mean it's for every practice. This practice found that out the hard way.