Physician Productivity

Odds may still favor the Affordable Care Act, but not in its present form. Democrats may have no choice but to cross the aisle to fix fatal flaws.

Does your practice have something it is thankful for? This is the perfect time of year to begin the habit of flexing your gratitude muscles!

There is a direct correlation between laws governing physician assistant scope of practice and their effectiveness as part of the care team.

All but a well-heeled minority and the Obamacare exempted will be facing mega-deductible health insurance in 2014, meaning they are effectively self-insured.

The newly insured under Obamacare needing primary care may be in the thousands or millions. Either way, primary care is the keystone solution to reduce spending.

From getting prior authorizations to requesting refills, physicians often struggle with what to handle and what to assign.

It can be a great thing for a physician's spouse to work in the practice. It can also be a disaster. Here are some tips to make it work.

Traveling light, both in life and in medical practice, means being realistic about what you can use and taking an honest appraisal of your limits.

Here's how to ensure you're getting top efficiency from the staff you currently have.

Addressing patients who arrive late is one thing, but when members of your medical practice staff, including physicians, are tardy, it's time to take action

Here are some tips that will streamline the scheduling process allowing the physician, patient, and front office to perform at an optimal level.

If you want greater productivity, profitability, and patient and physician satisfaction, look no further than "learned industriousness."

Rest for both body and mind is a crucial part of work-life balance for doctors. It makes us more productive, not less.

I don't mind when patients call for issues related to what I see them for. I have no time, however, for issues better addressed by their other physicians.

In this podcast, healthcare expert Laurie Morgan discusses key trends and challenges highlighted in our Great American Physician Survey, Sponsored by Kareo.

Our 2013 Great American Survey, Sponsored by Kareo, suggests older physicians are happier with their careers.

The government has committed over $20 billion to incentivize the use of today's EHRs and …not one dollar to explore an alternative.

Here are four top barriers physicians face when considering the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit for their patients and how to overcome them for better outcomes.

The AMA is discussing a resolution to severely limit scope of care by physician assistants. It's a solution in search of a problem and comes at a bad time.

If your goal is to be the best doctor you can be, limit your personal interaction with the EHR to only those things that serve that goal.

The goal of medicine is to heal people, not to mass-produce them.

Each physician must decide whether to comply with the spirit, or merely the letter, of the rules of EHR use. That is a grassroots decision.

Until the day when medicine if fully understood, today's EHRs will struggle to make sense out of data that is ambiguous and imprecise.

As physicians, grasp how much work you can do in one day, adjust your schedule accordingly, and start fresh each new day.

It is time physicians embrace managing care delivery, not delivering care.