Physician Productivity

Anyone that is responsible for patients has had "I told you so" moments. Here are mine when it comes to health IT and EHRs. I hope you take my advice.

Can't decide between myriad EHR vendors in your quest to meet meaningful use? Here are five tips for a DIY approach based on one practice's experience.

The American Medical Association's recommendations to boost EHR usability are touchy-feely, but none really get to the heart of what's wrong with systems.

It is feasible and often desirable for NPs to participate in concierge programs. But be careful, you need to explore the issue fully before proceeding.

Announcing a new initiative to address problems with EHR, the AMA wants to encourage patient engagement and less time spent documenting data.

When is it OK to refuse extra responsibilities in your medical group?

Apple anticipates that even the best laid plans go awry, so they seek out the failures and fix them using customer support. Why can't EHR vendors do the same?

Confused about how the healthcare system is going to change? Let's follow the money to find the answers, starting with recent news from CMS.

Even dedicated staff can sometimes have tunnel vision. But unless team members work together to achieve practice-wide goals, productivity suffers.

How a five-physician internal medicine practice nixed its payer contracts and began charging patients directly for services.

Sometimes, procedures lack RVU values for a reason. If you must, however, here are two strategies to use when assigning RVU values on your own.

Companies are pushing physician-based telemedicine as a solution. But, while promoters may have not thought things through, physicians must.

Leasing your medical practice to a hospital? You may want to consider these 15 contract provisions to ensure your practice is protected for the future.

Charge capture has evolved, from paper to PC to PDA and now to mobile applications, providing physicians with better access to patient data.

Increasing revenue and decreasing practice expenses are often misguided goals. Each is a proxy for the more effective goal of increasing net income.

It is easy to view life from your own circumstances, but chances are your colleagues are experiencing challenges too. Don't forget to reach out.

With projections of a primary-care physician shortage, this infographic from MHA @ GW explores the causes, effect, and possible solutions.

The Resource-Based Relative Value Scale, the generator of RVUs, is still viable despite the changing nature of physician compensation.

Your medical practice's value plays an important part in its future. Here are six ways to boost your practice's value, starting today.

The gap between having an EHR and meeting meaningful use is wide. Here are three tips to narrow the divide.

Value-based reimbursement has a bad reputation because it is misunderstood. Done correctly, through an IPA, it could be primary care’s saving grace.

With costs front and center for patients, in simple and stark terms: If you can’t deliver what the consumer perceives as quality, you will lose.

One of the new menu objectives for the Stage 2 rules of meaningful use stresses care coordination through recording electronic progress notes.

Spending time with your medical assistant will help the day run more smoothly, as well as increase patient and staff satisfaction.

In the three years since the first providers began attesting, meaningful use has already started benefiting patients.