Patient Care

Tactics should be built on a foundation of the three pillars: Educate, identify and treat.

Prescribing CBD oil still is relatively unexplored territory for physicians in terms of legal liability. But medical boards want clarity.

Leaders from several organizations explain how they’re meeting the needs of their patients and employees.

As you map out your practice's reopening plan, it’s important that it continues to prioritize patient care.

Embrace new tech and clinical services to remain independent while continuing to achieve clinical excellence and business stability.

Systemic racism is also a public health issue.

Two recently unveiled cases provide a glimpse into areas physicians and providers should be evaluating for continued compliance.

Medication non-adherence results in approximately 125,000 deaths and up to 25 percent of hospitalizations annually.

Interoperability will ignite significant and sustainable change in healthcare quality, delivery, and payment.

Continuation of care for chronic conditions is essential.

Lockdown lifts are coinciding with the start of Lyme season.

Start planning as soon as possible, no matter the current status of your community.

By addressing these determinants in routine patient care, physicians may be better able to reduce obesity and its complications.

Julia Wright, MD, discusses how America’s crisis of obesity was faring prior to the start of the pandemic and why this remains an important battle in this first video from our 6-part series.

How changes to basic processes in your practice can have a positive impact.

How you can fit the discussion into your current treatment approach.

Remote monitoring starts around $1,500 per patient, whereas hospital admissions cost thousands more.

Key treatment pathways & priorities.

Do not overlook these new additions.

The alternative practice arrangement is maintaining a stable revenue while also readily adaptable to telemedicine services.

Honest conversations about end-of-life care.

Individual physicians should not be determining critical care and ventilator use.

And other strategies to refresh your practice.

Guidance from expert sources. 

We are not much good to others, if we are not good to ourselves.

The key to patient satisfaction lies in your employees.

Educating patients starts with alleviating their concerns. Part of that is educating them about reliable sources of information.

In these times of social distancing, it’s even more important to keep patient relationships close.

Deepening relationships with patients by asking meaningful questions and listening carefully may ease practice burdens.

Clinicians must assume business leadership roles to create a better patient-centered health future.