Productivity

Physician practices of all sizes and specialties rarely maximize the impact they could have with a website.

Effective patient visit scheduling is obviously not as easy as it seems. Here's how to ensure your practice makes smart scheduling decisions.

Improve efficiency at your practice with these tips.

Your employees can get so overstressed they become crippled in their job performance. Here are some tips on identify, approaching, and working with your staff.

Five basic ways practices can provide the level of care that keeps patients coming back.

Forget about work-life balance! How do physicians find work balance?

Here are morale-boosting solutions that are cost effective and easy to implement.

Compounding effort and resources is not always a good thing at medical practices.

Here are some ideas to identify, understand, and re-motivate your medical practice staff and turn them back into people who love their work.

Don’t let the bad attitudes linger: Print this list and give it to each person in your office.

Warner Thomas, CEO of Louisiana-based Ochsner Health System, compares healthcare to the airline industry in his keynote speech at HIMSS13 in New Orleans.

Decisions made during the design of medical office spaces have long-term consequences. Make sure you’re allocating enough time and attention to the process.

Do you have medical practice staff hesitant to change or adapt to new policies or procedures? Here are a few tips and ideas to help them along.

See what CMS owes your medical practice for your services by downloading the the 2013 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.

Repetitive mistakes made by medical practice staff members are often not their fault.

It’s a common complaint that EHRs don’t conform to the way providers actually work. Understanding why this may be the case can help develop effective solutions.

Any task that consistently takes widely divergent amounts of time to perform is out of control and a sign that something is wrong at your practice.

How changing small behaviors first can effect change in your medical practice.

Ensure shifting between tasks at your medical practice does not harm accuracy or productivity

A recap of this year’s most popular blogs and some of the key lessons that can be learned from each.

The blogs that garnered the most attention among our physician readers in 2012, and some of the lessons learned from each.

One of the positives from the state of healthcare reform is the focus on prevention and early detection, which means great opportunity for generating revenue.

A friend from my past, let's call her Dr. Fabulous, taught me four key lessons to improve productivity in a medical practice and in life.

Care coordination is one of the most elusive yet important ways to improve outcomes. Here’s how one group gets it right.