Physician Productivity

Do you wince when asked to attend a meeting at 6:30 pm, after a long day seeing patients? Here are some tips to manage expectations and set boundaries.

Once implemented, EHRs don't run automatically. You have to train staff prior to and after integrating a new system to ensure a smooth transition.

Your current EHR may not be the best for meaningful use, so you may need a new system. Here's how to re-train your staff and physicians if needed.

EHRs may have an unintended side effect for smaller practices; namely, the disruption of existing communication patterns.

Staying on time is a challenge for this physician. But she concedes there are methods to improve her time management.

Our healthcare system is fragmented, misaligned, full of conflicts of interest, and tragically ineffective. Here are four strategies to fix it.

Taking time to build quality interactions with your patients can actually save you time, and help you become a more effective physician.

PQRS is extremely complicated and in a state of flux. These measures are not going away and are already seeing uptake with private payers.

Group visits are an opportunity for busy practices to solve patient-demand problems, and to make sure patients get the care they need.

So the ABIM admits they got it wrong when it comes to maintenance of certification. Great, but what about my experiences over the past decade?

Using RVUs to conduct a cost analysis at your medical practice is not only cheap and easy, it is very effective at assessing the value of your payer contracts.

Believe it or not, EHRs and Los Angeles County's mental health problem have a lot in common.

New wearable and ingestible wireless diagnostics promise to improve quality of life for physicians and patients … if EHRs would cooperate.

Nurses can play a critical role in improving the healthcare system for patients alongside physicians. Here's how.

ICD-10 is coming whether we like it or not. Here's how to get your medical practice to accept the coming coding set transition.

The sad fact, when it comes to EHR, is that very few posses the right kind of computer literacy.

An open letter to Congress about interoperability, including some questions it should ask the vendor community.

Losing referrals to the local hospital? Here's one marketing tool to retain patients and revenue.

Does your practice ask busy physicians to juggle committee/administrative work with treating patients? Should they?

The ICD-10 deadline is only nine months away. Here are six questions to ask your software vendors immediately.

Internal medicine physician Troy Tyner says his practice's EHR has increased reimbursement. Here's why and some of Tyner's top tips for other practices.

More physician compensation is being tied to productivity. Here's how to calculate productivity ratios at your practice using RVUs.

Looking for a way to get a handle on Relative Value Units (RVUs) tied to Medicare payments or even use of RVUs in your own practice? Here's the formula Medicare uses to calculate payments for the services you provide.

One of the primary frustrations for a practice is effective scheduling. Often, the root cause is not acknowledging the different stages of a patient visit.

While many external factors affect work-life balance, the internal battles we fight are often the most challenging. Here's how I propose to change that.

Massachusetts' effort to tie license renewal to meaningful use of an EHR is a great way to ease the physician shortage.

Look no further than the recent issue of JAMA for evidence that physician mandates are not beneficial, but paternalistic and coercive.

The most asked question from state legislators: Does physician quality really impact cost?

Here's how to address and deescalate the situation when family members become disruptive or aggressive, and threaten to hinder patient care.

The crises of immigration and drought cannot be solved, only mitigated or accommodated. The EHR crisis, on the other hand, has a solution.