Technology & AI

Looking at your competitors' website, online reputation, and social media presence can help you improve your own marketing efforts.

Tech can do great things in health care, but it can also lead to a failure in communication.

Implementing smartphones into clinical practice can improve physician response times, increases efficiency and transforms care team communication.

HIMSS18 has arrived. The Physicians Practice editorial staff has gone through and picked out the top 10 things you should do during your limited time in Las Vegas.

Are you issuing embarrassing correction emails after goofing up your initial correspondence? Here's how to avoid this snafu.

Telemedicine is convenient and easy, but that doesn’t mean it's for every practice. This practice found that out the hard way.

Our editorial advisory board tells us their favorite apps to use in medicine. What made the list?

MACRA, inventory management, two other areas physician practices should focus on this year to improve care and lower costs.

BrowZine is a must for anyone looking to carry a wealth of knowledge with them on-the-go.

Looking to upgrade your EHR or PM systems? Here are a few must haves.

More practices are adopting mHealth technologies in different ways, but the lack of evidence surrounding these apps has some concerned.

Mobile is in as three out of four practices saying they use mobile health (mHealth) in their practice on a weekly basis.

This method of job creation eliminates steps from the typical health care hiring process in hopes of providing better care for patients.

You have a few seconds to attract a new patient, it is essential your website delivers a positive experience. Avoid these medical website design mistakes.

Texting, Facebook, Skype - these technologies can all put you in the crosshairs of the government for failing to comply with HIPAA.

It took a two-year, frustration-induced hiatus from pushing a portal to his patients, but this admin finally understands their use.

This app allows physicians with neat handwriting to better align with their colleagues by transforming their notes into illegible chicken scratch.

The digitization of health data is a good, but it brings concerns over how hard it is to protect patient data.

More shakeups in the Trump administration's HHS with Brenda Fitzgerald, MD, resigning amid reports she traded in tobacco stocks.

Providing lots of valuable information and smart calculator tools, Pedi QuikCalc is a valuable resource for inpatient and outpatient physicians.

On Wednesday, the Senate confirmed Alex Azar, making him the second HHS secretary in under a year for the Trump Administration.

In this podcast, AMA President David O. Barbe, MD talks about the accommodations that CMS has made towards small practices in MACRA.

It's OK to ask your patients for a positive review online - it will help build your reputation with new patients.

WiFi is an attractive feature for guests in the waiting room. Just ask this patient who squatted on his practice WiFi network for months.

Online reviews are important to attracting new patients and building your practice. Here's how to become a 5-star physician.