Technology & AI

How your practice can succeed in Stage 2 of the EHR incentive program despite more complex requirements and higher reporting thresholds.

To help identify some of the best ways to boost medical practice revenue, we asked practice management expert Rosemarie Nelson to share some of her tips.

Doctors and their practices are similar to any product or service: They represent a brand, and like all products or services, that brand must be protected.

Thanks to Apple's new health app, accessing patients’ glucose levels, blood pressure, and other information could be as simple as clicking on a tab in your EHR.

As the digital space continues to change, medical practices must change their marketing approaches as well.

When an article on EHR or data makes it into a medical journal, it is most often a speculative picture of the future; basically, it's science fiction.

How to select, implement, and market a portal that will appeal to your patients.

Your medical practice's value plays an important part in its future. Here are six ways to boost your practice's value, starting today.

Recently we suffered a multi-part network crash at our medical practice. Here are some of the lessons I learned while helping my practice deal with the disaster.

Identifying keywords that will help your medical practice perform better in search results is key to attracting new patients.

Mobile health tools have come a long way over the past few years. Here's how and why physicians should be using them.

One physician, with more than 40 years in medicine, reflects on going "beeperless" in medical practice.

Physicians and medical practices that fail to participate in health information exchange could soon be at a disadvantage.

Here are three easy-to-implement tools to make your practice's online presence more actionable to recruit and retain patients.

Americans have changed how they manage their household finances, and medical practices must adjust accordingly.

Measuring a return on investment for EHRs is not only key to showing the project paid off; it can also ensure ongoing success and adoption.

Does your practice have e-mail etiquette issues? Here are some etiquette tips for intra-office or patient e-mails.

EHR implementation is still the most pressing tech problem for physicians, but there are ways to make it work for your practice.

Get data from this year's 2014 Technology Survey, Sponsored by Kareo, on EHR implementation, mobile technology, meaningful use, and other health IT issues.

While use of an EHR has clear benefits to patients the technology is still in its infancy and can threaten patient safety in certain situations.

Technology can solve your business problems, but it has to be the right system with the right partner to truly result in success.

It appears medical practices, especially independent ones, are becoming more accepting of putting their medical data in the cloud

From apps to analyzing big data, the future of healthcare may be about predicting the future of a patient's well-being and having physicians intervene.

Communicating electronically with patients is convenient, but also risky. Here, a risk management professional shares some of the biggest mistakes to avoid.

Increase patient portal adoption by using these sample talking points during four critical portal promotion opportunities.

A patient portal expert answers this common question voiced by medical practices, and three others about portal implementation and use.

Think passwords are passé and that biometrics will come to the rescue to keep healthcare records safe? Think again - it's only one part of the security puzzle.

Your website says a lot about who you are as a physician, and how you run your practice. Be sure that message is one you want to project to prospective patients.

The Stage 2 rules of meaningful use call for a security risk analysis of your practice. Here are some common sources of data loss to examine.

Physicians Practice's 2014 Technology Survey, Sponsored by Kareo, contains troubling findings regarding efforts to secure protected health information.