Patient Care

Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.

Providing great customer service at your medical practice boosts revenue and patient satisfaction. Here are 10 tips.

Best practices for figuring out what patients want from your practice.

The outsized influence of social drivers on health

Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.

Recently, demand for medications like Ozempic, Wegovy, or Mounjaro, including their off-label use, has skyrocketed in the wake of enthusiastic celebrity endorsements.

With the right medication management, physicians can make a difference

What are a few key steps that medical practices and physician groups should take to reduce the amount of downtime they have and maximize their uptime?

Studies consistently show patients’ health outcomes are connected to their ability to access, afford and adhere to their medications.

Why whole-person health begins with non-clinical needs.

Care guidance supports physician practices and at-risk organizations to achieve health equity objectives and succeed in value-based care.

The health system must rethink its strategy to enable primary care providers to develop better game plans for chronic disease patients, such as people living with type 2 diabetes.

Individuals with I/DD, autism, and severe mental or behavioral challenges experience significant disparities in access to care and health outcomes. Here’s how to look past the disability and care for the person.

Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.

Doctors need to address patients’ worries about costs.

What if both caring and coding could work together synergistically?

You truly have to walk a mile in a patient’s shoes to find out the true barriers to improving their well-being.

Physicians constrained when payers put cost above care.

Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.

The conditions in which people live, learn, work, and play that can affect a wide range of health risks and outcomes.

In addition to helping patients better manage chronic, difficult-to-treat conditions, mindfulness could help physicians manage job stress and burnout.

Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.

By improving exam room design and workflow data and equipment, medical practices can facilitate a better experience for both patients and caregivers.

Showing empathy improves patient satisfaction, but not every doctor is naturally good at expressing feelings to patients.

Health equity metrics are increasingly required in value-based care.

How primary care physicians can help

It takes just one problem or inconvenience to affect the patient’s experience at your practice.

For the first time, clinicians have been able to get a “behind the scenes look” into their patient’s environment during telehealth visits.

For 15 years, I unquestioningly followed my organization’s standard process for patient flow. Not anymore.

As we continue to face the COVID-19 pandemic and its long-term consequences, it is more important than ever for providers to build trust with patients.