Physician Productivity

Use smart design choices to seamlessly integrate your EHR into your medical practice, and into the patient visit itself.

Physicians with different personalities; who are too similar; and with varying workloads are just three reasons partnerships don't work out.

Some physicians are opposed to giving full prescribing authority to PAs. Here's why they are wrong.

Are medical scribes the solution to your EHR headaches? We asked practice management consultants to weigh in.

Training a medical practice staff member to serve as a scribe has several benefits, but only if you go about it the right way.

Our fragmented, disconnected, crisis-based medical system where doctors bear no consequence for cost, but liable for everything, is a wasteful money pit.

Do you wince when asked to attend a meeting at 6:30 pm, after a long day seeing patients? Here are some tips to manage expectations and set boundaries.

Once implemented, EHRs don't run automatically. You have to train staff prior to and after integrating a new system to ensure a smooth transition.

Your current EHR may not be the best for meaningful use, so you may need a new system. Here's how to re-train your staff and physicians if needed.

EHRs may have an unintended side effect for smaller practices; namely, the disruption of existing communication patterns.

Staying on time is a challenge for this physician. But she concedes there are methods to improve her time management.

Our healthcare system is fragmented, misaligned, full of conflicts of interest, and tragically ineffective. Here are four strategies to fix it.

Taking time to build quality interactions with your patients can actually save you time, and help you become a more effective physician.

PQRS is extremely complicated and in a state of flux. These measures are not going away and are already seeing uptake with private payers.

Group visits are an opportunity for busy practices to solve patient-demand problems, and to make sure patients get the care they need.

So the ABIM admits they got it wrong when it comes to maintenance of certification. Great, but what about my experiences over the past decade?

Using RVUs to conduct a cost analysis at your medical practice is not only cheap and easy, it is very effective at assessing the value of your payer contracts.

Believe it or not, EHRs and Los Angeles County's mental health problem have a lot in common.

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

Nurses can play a critical role in improving the healthcare system for patients alongside physicians. Here's how.

ICD-10 is coming whether we like it or not. Here's how to get your medical practice to accept the coming coding set transition.

The sad fact, when it comes to EHR, is that very few posses the right kind of computer literacy.

An open letter to Congress about interoperability, including some questions it should ask the vendor community.

Losing referrals to the local hospital? Here's one marketing tool to retain patients and revenue.

Does your practice ask busy physicians to juggle committee/administrative work with treating patients? Should they?