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Have a difficult employee, low staff morale or trouble filling vacancies? Tips and guidance for how to be a better leader.

A little attention to small billing mistakes can save your practice big money

Practices share their attitudes and frustrations about running a medical practice.

Planning to hire staff or considering whether to give them a raise? Check out our survey results first.

New study finds how much you make depends on your role and responsibilities - and where you work.

You don't have to spend a lot of money (or time) to improve patient care.

Advice on attracting and retaining younger talent.

Change isn't easy, but the following tips can help you guide your organization or practice through any transition.

Rethink what you say, and how you say it, as a way to garner employee trust.

How modern technology can help with understaffing.

Avoid legal trouble by doing a thorough review of the electronic prescription process, security options, audits and potential loopholes.

Stay independent and profitable through the use of technology.

Here are four strategies that can go a long way towards creating a culture where people feel engaged, empowered, and supported. And the happier your staff, the greater your patient satisfaction.

Efforts to save money may even weaken the business-and, sometimes, those weakening effects can be very hard to spot.

One antidote to physician burnout is to focus on increasing happiness and work satisfaction.

As providers, it’s our job to identify and anticipate what patients need. But, in order to deliver the right care at the right time, we need to re-examine our processes and relationships not only with our patients, but also with one another.

Nosy employees poking around in medical records or sharing passwords can put your practice at risk of HIPAA violations, lawsuits, and broken agreements with affiliate hospitals or practices.

Reduce your risk of burnout by adding physician assistants to help you carry the load.

Current events once again illustrate the wide range of legal and physical threats to physicians' assets. 

Just when you thought mansplaining couldn't get any worse.

Effective onboarding can help ensure your new hire knows what is expected and becomes productive more quickly.

Actually, it’s not magic. It’s helping your employees feel connected to their work, understanding their contributions to the bigger picture, and nurturing their continued growth.

It’s great that you want to share the wealth with your nonphysician employees. Just make sure you draft a policy that also meets state and federal laws.

Here are three simple adjustments that can help you ensure others understand what you're trying to convey. 

Lax policies regarding medical records and ordering prescriptions and tests puts physicians-and their practices-at risk of DEA and HIPAA violations.

You cannot avoid employee mistakes, but you can make sure the same mistake isn't made twice.

The rising number of PAs working in surgical subspecialties is helping to fill the physician shortage and represents a larger shift toward team-based practice in the operating room.

As the saying goes, it’s not what you said but how you make them feel. Being more conscientious of your delivery can improve communication with patients, staff, and colleagues.

Medical practitioners follow a standardized protocol to diagnose and treat patients. What if the same system could be applied to diagnose and treat problems within practices?  

The holiday party season traditionally starts next week, right after Thanksgiving. Consider what your medical practice should and should not be doing at the office party to avoid liability.