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Electronic health records are great - if you maximize the positives and minimize the negatives of these digital files.

Interruptions are part of daily life at a medical practice, but by addressing frequent work flow issues proactively, you can maintain great patient care.

The two most important words for retaining patients at your medical practice are: customer service.

Here are three established valuation approaches to take the guesswork and emotion out of looking at your medical practice.

From having a better family life to making teamwork easier, here are nine reasons why closing out patient charts in a timely manner is the way to go.

Buying the perfect building for your medical practice requires you to consider much more than “location, location, location.”

Medical practice performance benchmarks without context are useless, and relying simply upon reported measures is ill advised.

Want to have a presence in social media as a clinician? Follow the AMA's guidelines, which reflect common sense.

Here are five ideas to attract quality patients that stay around for the long term, but it involves making yourself available to that clientele.

Here are three ways to stop 'lost' copayments and deductibles at the time of service at your medical practice.

No longer can a medical practice be run like it was in the last century. A successful medical practice must run more as a professional business.

Here's a simple checklist of common issues to consider when you are thinking of buying an existing medical practice or buying out a retiring partner / practice owner.

An increasing number of medical practices are finding that electronic check-ins go beyond entering basic data and verifying insurance.

Public health as an important part of an allopathic, clinical program may be intuitive to some, but implementing it is still a challenge.

Clear guidelines on practice reporting structures will empower employees to work more effectively.

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.

One of the top ways that a family practice clinic, in particular, hemorrhages money is staffing, or more specifically, too large of an entourage.

If you are looking for a simple way to control your medical practice finances, here it is: the end-of-day report.

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.

Here is a case study for a multiple-physician practice that increased its productivity without any additional equipment or software - just a good hard look at its processes.

To ensure a successful ICD-10 transition at your medical practice, follow these seven steps from Rose Dunn of First Class Solutions, Inc

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

With the government trying to reduce your income on one side and possibly increase it on another, you need to keep track of your processes.

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.