Physician Productivity

EHR interoperability is a great idea in theory, but the reality leaves much to be desired.

Four ways to take charge of your cell phone. 

Take time to reassess your personal and professional priorities as well as long-term goals for your practice, then adjust your workload as needed.

Here are some of the root causes and potential solutions for physician burnout.

It’s important to support medical conversations and instructions with clear documentation using straightforward language on well-thought-out forms. Here are a few suggestions to help you get started.

Physicians are people, too. They need a way to relax after a hard day’s work. Twelve of them have found a way to unwind: in front of a crowd, by playing cover songs, and raising money for charitable causes.

The quality of patient care depends on high-functioning providers. The increasing trend and data confirming the negative impact of physicians’ ill health on patient care means that the healthcare industry must search for answers - now.

For many, retirement will be a long process of gradually winding down work hours and responsibilities rather than a firm date.

When managing a practice gets so tough that you think you may just have to retire early or sell your practice, try to think about what you mean to the patients you serve.

As providers, it’s our job to identify and anticipate what patients need. But, in order to deliver the right care at the right time, we need to re-examine our processes and relationships not only with our patients, but also with one another.

As a growing number of healthcare providers are feeling burned out, two physicians have found a way to recharge through music.

Reduce your risk of burnout by adding physician assistants to help you carry the load.

The ongoing battle to get patients the treatments they need is a major contributor to physician burnout.

Burnout is not about broken doctors and nurses. It is about a broken system.

Unfortunately, it only really works for children.  

After you finish this paperwork, there's even more paperwork.

Nine areas that every partnership agreement should consider.

How this primary care physician is attempting to bring more balance into her life.

Parsing out the various terms used in relation to a patient’s health record can be daunting. Here’s a primer to make the process less intimidating

Just when you thought mansplaining couldn't get any worse.

Physicians need to think seriously about what they are trading before they decide to become an employee of a health system instead of a private business owner.

Effective onboarding can help ensure your new hire knows what is expected and becomes productive more quickly.

Successful doctors face a wide variety of risks outside their practice walls. These are some common recurring seasonal legal and financial risks you can manage before spring break.

The cloud offers exciting new opportunities for medical practices that leverage it strategically and safely.

Spirituality has been linked to improved health, less stress, lower incidence of hypertension, and greater psychological well-being-and does not necessarily equate with religiousness.

This year more than ever, a sound financial move would be to sort through the new tax changes carefully to determine exactly how they will impact you and identify smart moves for 2019 and beyond.

How physicians can protect themselves from unethical testimony by an ‘expert’ witness.

The number of things we do in the business of medicine that have no direct bearing on patient health or well-being is astounding.

Stemming heart disease and stroke is too big of a battle for physicians to tackle alone. Physician assistants can provide some much-needed support by explaining treatment plans, encouraging lifestyle changes, and improving both patient compliance and patient relations.

By using proven technology, physicians can help contain the spread of potentially dangerous viruses to vulnerable populations, while still seeing patients in a safe, timely, and convenient way.