Patient Engagement & Communications

Physician practices should consider these five major categories of capabilities to examine in any telehealth solution.

Weight management is more than just a checklist.

Practices who fail to be proactive about collecting from patients will predictably experience a tsunami of accounts receivable.

Weight loss programs are a prime opportunity for telehealth offerings.

Medication non-adherence results in approximately 125,000 deaths and up to 25 percent of hospitalizations annually.

Unfortunately for physicians, payers continue to demand prior authorization for more care items.

Interoperability will ignite significant and sustainable change in healthcare quality, delivery, and payment.

How telehealth is providing a new front in obesity treatment and weight management.

Scale up your practice with these innovations.

Julia Wright, MD, explains that obesity, like other chronic conditions, could be a factor for worsened disease and that individuals suffering from obesity should take extra precautions to limit factors of contagion.

Start planning as soon as possible, no matter the current status of your community.

You’ll have to routinely reach out to patients to get your safety messages to stick.

By addressing these determinants in routine patient care, physicians may be better able to reduce obesity and its complications.

It starts with mindfulness, nutrition, and exercise. 

OUD medications are considered to ‘gold standard’ for safe, effective treatment.

Ironically, times of stress are when we need to be on top of our game.

Patients returning to the waiting room need reassurance-and rules. 

How practices are updating infection control procedures and maintaining patient relations in the wake of the pandemic.

Use association guidelines to establish your practice’s plan.

Longtime programs become new lifesavers in a time of crisis.

Key treatment pathways & priorities.

Do not overlook these new additions.

Medicine, like life, is everchanging. Here’s some strategies for abating stress in your practice.

Unsupervised non-physician providers put patients at risk when working outside their scope of practice.

Greatest impact will be felt in small towns and rural clinics.