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What does a successful EHR implementation look like? Consultant Rosemarie Nelson spells it out in four easy steps.

Healthcare reform and the regulatory push for EHRs involve elaborate plans predicated on the future being a repetition of the past - but your future will not repeat the past.

The shift in the way healthcare is reimbursed is inevitable. Here are three ways physicians can adjust to the move from volume to value.

Defense attorney Sarah Wirskye explains obstruction of justice in healthcare lawsuits and how to prevent it from occurring, even accidentally.

If you have owned your medical practice for more than two years, it's time to step back and do some evaluating on its culture and direction.

Noteworthy items from Physicians Practice

If you want to boost referrals at your medical practice, remember, it's the little touches that make your practice memorable.

Health IT can be improved by building applications with the goal of getting the real work done in the shortest possible time and with the least effort.

Copiers, scanners, and faxes are essential to medical offices, but they also present hidden HIPAA dangers.

Here's a primer on The False Claims Act, why medical practices should know all about this federal statute, and how to avoid violations.

Any task that consistently takes widely divergent amounts of time to perform is out of control and a sign that something is wrong at your practice.

Like most medical practices, we offer flu shots to patients. And like most practices, some accept, some refuse, and some go to their grocery store instead.

With 10,000 new 65-year-old patients each day, it's important that physicians act now to keep them healthy by improving preventative care.

Evaluating medical office purchase alternatives based on cost is an incomplete analysis and likely to be misleading.

It is 2013, but non-compliance with HIPAA remains an issue in the healthcare industry. Here are four tips to get your practice on track and in line.

Another year has passed where you meant to make changes at your medical practice, but didn't. Here's how to act in the moment and make true change this year.

If you haven’t made any professional resolutions, consider having your clinic make them for you.

The Affordable Care Act will broaden the government’s efforts to detect Medicare overpayments and fraud, and will require you to implement a formal compliance plan. Here’s how to get ready.

Here are five steps physicians can take to secure the benefits of ancillary products and services while minimizing the risks.

A few of the important practice-management lessons of 2012.

Feel like there's no time to manage your medical practice? Here's how to spend five hours a week and increase inflow while still allowing you to treat patients.

How a marketer could help your practice make big profits in 2012, and how to find a great one.

A recap of this year’s most popular blogs and some of the key lessons that can be learned from each.

Don’t let your office fall into the trap of poor customer service and losing patients to the “new patient coordinator.”

Here are some tips you can review that could eliminate post-holiday party problems for you and your medical practice.