September 16th 2025
Electronic health record vendors use different pricing models, add-ons and service fees that can quickly inflate your costs. These six tips will help you budget wisely and keep your system working for your practice.
September 15th 2025
Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.
September 10th 2025
Reduce overhead costs while maintaining staff levels and enhancing patient satisfaction with these nine strategies.
September 9th 2025
Eight strategies to enhance patient attraction and retention in your medical practice, ensuring growth in a competitive health care landscape.
September 8th 2025
How the marriage of primary care and behavioral health is driving the EHR industry
As more primary care providers integrate behavioral health services into their practice, EHR platforms must evolve to meet the needs of healthcare providers and their patients.
Crafting a robust internet contingency plan for downtime challenges in healthcare
Internet downtime could affect your practice monumentally, and without an internet contingency plan, you’re leaving your practice susceptible to an array of challenges.
Dealing with difficult employees
Managing problems without delay is crucial; otherwise, the practice may suffer.
Retail platforms are changing patients’ expectations for digital tools
What providers can do to improve the patient experience.
Keeping patients engaged
Americans are changing how they use health care. Now is the time for primary care to rebuild relationships with them.
Practical application of AI in healthcare delivery: Are we ready?
When it comes to certain AI-generated solutions, science fiction has become science now.
Common pitfalls in a doctor's first year in practice
You’re done with med school – finally! Now it’s time to start thinking about practice management perspectives.
Practice tip of the week: Prerequisites for Strategic Planning
Strategies for fostering employee loyalty at your practice
Creating a culture of employee loyalty and commitment is one of the most important contributors to successful medical practice management.
How to thrive in independent practice
Staying independent allows doctors to improve on what they do best by enabling them to be nimble and innovative while focusing on satisfaction of patients and staff.
Providing continuous and effective care under the threat of cyberattacks
Don't let the threat of cyberattacks derail your practice from harnessing the power of technology.
Business associates beware
Recent OCR enforcement action showcases business associate liability for HIPAA violations.
Care guidance and your practice
Care guidance supports physician practices and at-risk organizations to achieve health equity objectives and succeed in value-based care.
Why physicians must lead the care team
The health system must rethink its strategy to enable primary care providers to develop better game plans for chronic disease patients, such as people living with type 2 diabetes.
Messy Moments: How to stop saying yes when you want to say no
Don't get cornered into saying yes.
Barriers to using ChatGPT in healthcare
Physicians will only be able to trust artificial intelligence when it's transparent.
Don't leave money on the table
These days, physicians are terrified about overcoding — that is, billing for services they did not render or for more labor-intensive services than they provided.
The need for whole health data
Many practices have yet to access the data with the greatest potential to impact patient outcomes and their own financial success.
Making the most of value-based care
Six strategies for profitability with new payment models.
What you need to know to close your practice
Follow these general guidelines to minimize the effects on your patients
How to recruit quality staff
Medical practices must go beyond simply offering competitive salaries and benefits packages to attract new talent and keep their best clinicians and administrative staff working for them.
Helping patients catch up on preventative care
Doctors need to address patients’ worries about costs.
Introduction to medical practice valuations
One thing that can help you on your path to selling your practice is to understand some of the basic tenants of practice valuation.
7 Tips for easing patient collections in your medical practice
Collecting money from patients is an ongoing challenge that has only worsened with high-deductible health plans.
Ways to improve the older patient experience
How to take steps to boost the experience for this group of patients.
The keys to reducing violence in health care settings
Learning to manage emotions and recognize needs of others lessens the tension that causes aggressive behavior.
The leading topics healthcare leaders should be talking about
It's critical that the conversations healthcare leaders have about the current state of the industry evolve.
How primary care can survive
Primary care is inefficient, inconvenient, and often inaccessible, optimized neither for patient experience nor positive outcomes.
Messy moments: Everyone sniping
Calming discord in your practice.
The danger of paint-by-numbers medicine
Physicians constrained when payers put cost above care.