Physician Productivity

Physicians typically feel they have little control over work-life balance, but they have the power to improve their emotional resilience. Here's how.

After 18 years, the hospital where I see patients is getting an EHR. It's hard for me to see the value for physicians and patients going forward.

Pay-for-performance programs often set up complex metrics to define quality, when simple solutions to the initial problem would be far more effective.

EHRs should allow your practice to maintain or improve your productivity. Here are five ways to make sure it doesn't do the opposite.

When you look for guidance on the sustainability of technology, look to the government. No, not HHS, but instead the U.S. Department of Defense.

You don't need practice advice, software, or seminars to make patients happy and loyal. You just need to be there when they need you. Here's how.

As Oct. 1 approaches, get your physicians ready by determining how much and what kind of ICD-10 training they'll need.

Without complainers, there is no incentive to rethink the problem and no one to stumble on an alternative.

Medical practice managers must be more aware of how physicians deliver care and how they can help them do it more efficiently.

Congratulations, you've hired a new NP or PA. Now be sure your patients know and understand who they'll be seeing.

Advanced practitioners have various qualifications, but be sure you understand your state's scope of practice laws.

Advanced practitioners can deliver significant value, but recruiting must be driven by economics and a commitment to team-based care.

I know it is April, but I finally made a New Year's resolution. I will start being proactive about my procrastination.

NPs and PAs can bring a number of strengths to the table; in particular a focus on patient education, care coordination, and wellness promotion.

Physician assistants are educated in a collaborative approach to improve coordination of care and patient outcomes.

PAs have always taken a team approach to medicine. That focus is applicable to policy issues as well as clinical ones.

Paying primary-care physicians more is a proven winner, but a Michigan study indicates that health plans playing penny-ante get what they pay for.

Research indicates there are four keys to successful EHR adoption. Here's how to implement them at your medical practice.

Patients come to a direct-pay practice for improved access to physicians. In order to deliver on that promise, a physician must have the right tools.

Like every computer system, each EHR creates its own virtual reality. The danger stems from mistaking this "virtual" reality for actual "reality."

Telemedicine allows certain luxuries for both physician and patient - for better or worse.

Good news: My practice is switching to an iPad-enabled EHR. Bad news: I may never truly be off-duty again since I'll always be connected.

I recently realized I wasn't burned out, but experiencing something else at the peak of my career as a physician. Here's what I've discovered.

One physician explores the "dance of documentation" between physician, patient, and EHR; and a potential new partner: the medical scribe.

Use smart design choices to seamlessly integrate your EHR into your medical practice, and into the patient visit itself.

Physicians with different personalities; who are too similar; and with varying workloads are just three reasons partnerships don't work out.

Some physicians are opposed to giving full prescribing authority to PAs. Here's why they are wrong.

Are medical scribes the solution to your EHR headaches? We asked practice management consultants to weigh in.

Training a medical practice staff member to serve as a scribe has several benefits, but only if you go about it the right way.

Our fragmented, disconnected, crisis-based medical system where doctors bear no consequence for cost, but liable for everything, is a wasteful money pit.