Patients

Need to accommodate more patients and exam rooms in your medical practice? Consider eliminating the reception area.

The ability to document in the EHR is a blessing and a curse. My fear is to produce a note that has a lot of words, but says nothing of substance.

Watch this three-minute video to gain a better understanding of how retail-based medical clinics are evolving and how patients are reacting to them.

Are your patients relying too much on inaccurate information from Dr. Google? Here are some resources to steer them in a better direction.

Here are five ways certified PAs are helping to solve the nation’s rural health challenges.

Are you doing all you can to keep patients happy and healthy at your medical practice? Here are some simple, but effective, tips.

Collecting from patients is vital to a practice's bottom line. But often, it is an inconsistent process, done poorly. Here's what you can do about it.

Here are four ways primary-care physicians can better collaborate with spine specialists for coordinated patient care.

Without a compromise by March 31, physicians treating Medicare patients will face a 21 percent reduction in payments. But there is hope.

There are numerous benefits for physician participation in a care-team program to benefit their medical practice's complex-care patients.

Would I like to be friendly with all the referring docs? Sure. But I won't compromise patient care for the sake of camaraderie.

Understand the ins and outs of a HIPAA breach and, more importantly, avoid them with 12 strategies to enact at your practice.

Handling a confrontation with an angry patient is critical to malpractice risk management. Here are five tips handle difficult encounters appropriately.

The growing list of payer demands continues to drive medical decision making. It can also impede patient care and hasten physician burnout.

One of our patients recently died of a heroin overdose. Could we have seen this coming? What can we do now to help his family?

The “vaccine discussion” is always challenging. Here's how I respond to the common vaccine-related concerns that I hear from my patients' parents.

Bundled payments present "significant opportunities" to surgical practices, according to consultant Jamaal Campbell. Here's why.

One of the most crucial aspects of patient relationships is understanding how our thinking as physicians compares to how patients tend to think about medical problems.

In the digital world, it's not about you, it's about your patients. They're looking for help answering their health questions.

New data from Quest Diagnostics suggests while the rate of misuse of prescription drugs is high, there are strategies for physicians to use with patients.

Just a few months after opening his membership medical practice, internist Michael Freedman is predicting large growth. Here's why.

New wearable and ingestible wireless diagnostics promise to improve quality of life for physicians and patients … if EHRs would cooperate.

Your practice can do a great job managing illness, but without empathy and courtesy, the patient will feel the service and quality of care was poor.

It's hard treating individual patients, complicated treating families, and extremely difficult when families want to be "anonymously" involved.

Many of the health insurance exchange plans include high deductibles, so getting these patients to pay their portion of your fee is critical.