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Betty Hovey of AAPC explains the looming medical coding transition to ICD-10 and how to prepare your medical practice.

Now is the season for planning and creating a strategy for a practice that can survive the future. Here are six roles to fill at your office today.

Attorneys Barbara Zabawa and Melissa Giftus warn improper social media use can lead to possible HIPAA violations, increased malpractice liability, and more.

Good written communication is important. Here are the basic rules for e-mailing with staff and patients.

Providing quality patient care is a prime contributor to physician satisfaction, while negative factors associated with EHRs increased physician frustration.

Here are five best practices for selecting, managing, and supervising your medical practice staff and improving their communication skills

Physician assistants are poised and ready for the challenge of helping your medical practice with the transition to ICD-10.

Making an impact on your patients - and your fellow medical practice employees - means bringing out the best in yourself. Sally Hogshead describes how.

Your front office is the face of your practice, therefore, it should be a top priority to hire and retain quality staff members.

High stress among staff contributes to absenteeism, lower productivity, and poor teamwork. Here's what administrators can do to help.

Business expert and author Sam Silverstein urges medical practices to establish their beliefs, never stray from them, and to cut out excuses.

Is your medical practice staff doing all it can to reduce the likelihood of a malpractice lawsuit? Here are some tips.

The most important factor in hiring your next practice manager is matching the style of that manager to the needs of the medical practice.

Management expert Roger Gerard discusses how physicians can employ lean methodologies in their medical practices.

Michael O'Connell of Marymount Hospital in Ohio discusses key steps your medical practice can take to ensure a safe environment for patients and staff.

Keeping an eye on medical practice employees can be tricky, so implement transparency, accountability and expectation into their daily work life.

Legislation in three states is changing the way physician assistants interact with physicians and patients.

Do you know what type of role you want your practice manager to take on? Be clear about your expectations upfront.

Patients are asking how Obamacare will affect my practice. Here's what's happened so far and what could happen in the near future for my staff and patients.

Team-based healthcare relies on everyone working together for the benefit of the patient. And under health reform, having an effective team has its rewards.

Sometimes learning from true stories of physicians who lost assets due to poor planning is the best way to kick start your own asset protection plan.

Every workplace has conflict. The goal is to find professional, respectful, and fair resolution. Here are eight ways to meet that goal in your medical practice.

For some operating their office to simply get the work done is preferred. But your practice can be more forward-thinking. Here's how.

There's a time and a place for formal, sit-down meetings, but spontaneous brainstorming sessions have their value, too. Here are some advantages of the latter.

Even if things aren’t shifting dramatically in your local healthcare market, this is the time to begin to explore these four key factors.