Physician Productivity

Here's how to ensure you're getting top efficiency from the staff you currently have.

Addressing patients who arrive late is one thing, but when members of your medical practice staff, including physicians, are tardy, it's time to take action

Here are some tips that will streamline the scheduling process allowing the physician, patient, and front office to perform at an optimal level.

If you want greater productivity, profitability, and patient and physician satisfaction, look no further than "learned industriousness."

Rest for both body and mind is a crucial part of work-life balance for doctors. It makes us more productive, not less.

I don't mind when patients call for issues related to what I see them for. I have no time, however, for issues better addressed by their other physicians.

Our 2013 Great American Survey, Sponsored by Kareo, suggests older physicians are happier with their careers.

The government has committed over $20 billion to incentivize the use of today's EHRs and …not one dollar to explore an alternative.

Here are four top barriers physicians face when considering the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit for their patients and how to overcome them for better outcomes.

The AMA is discussing a resolution to severely limit scope of care by physician assistants. It's a solution in search of a problem and comes at a bad time.

If your goal is to be the best doctor you can be, limit your personal interaction with the EHR to only those things that serve that goal.

The goal of medicine is to heal people, not to mass-produce them.

Each physician must decide whether to comply with the spirit, or merely the letter, of the rules of EHR use. That is a grassroots decision.

Until the day when medicine if fully understood, today's EHRs will struggle to make sense out of data that is ambiguous and imprecise.

As physicians, grasp how much work you can do in one day, adjust your schedule accordingly, and start fresh each new day.

It is time physicians embrace managing care delivery, not delivering care.

Optimizing the skills of nonphysician providers can help your practice increase patient access, boost productivity, and generate new revenue.

Texas Health Resources has used an innovative series of health IT tools to engage their large base of independent physicians and encourage greater collaboration online.

Decisions made during the design of medical office spaces have long-term consequences. Make sure you’re allocating enough time and attention to the process.

Government runs on processes, as seen by its solutions for healthcare. But, medicine is about people, not the process.

Looming annual threats to Medicare payments are exhausting, but the Affordable Care Act creates a paradigm shift for physicians who embrace the federal program.

See what CMS owes your medical practice for your services by downloading the the 2013 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.

It’s a common complaint that EHRs don’t conform to the way providers actually work. Understanding why this may be the case can help develop effective solutions.

Value-based physician compensation incentives are gaining momentum, but aren’t going away any time soon.

The blogs that garnered the most attention among our physician readers in 2012, and some of the lessons learned from each.

Pay-for-performance is an increasingly popular, yet largely unproven, concept for rewarding the providers of healthcare. They can be helpful …or harmful.

A friend from my past, let's call her Dr. Fabulous, taught me four key lessons to improve productivity in a medical practice and in life.

The annual physical has come under a lot of scrutiny of late; but doctors need to push back and highlight the real value physicals bring to patients.

One hospital rewards surgeons who finalize operative reports with golf balls, thus discouraging its objective by providing incentives for a different behavior.

As I plan for my retirement, I look at the next generation of physician assistants and what the future looks like for them.