Productivity

A review of 7 apps that provide some functionality for medical practices and/or patients  

If we are not smart about how we implement digital health, we may have results similar to the EHR.

You cannot avoid employee mistakes, but you can make sure the same mistake isn't made twice.

These techniques reduce stress and disruptions to help you to maintain focus.

Stanford Health Care learned how to create standardized work to improve patient access and quality outcomes in five areas. These lessons learned can be applied to improve patient outcomes, quality, and service regardless of medical practice size-or budget.

Here are six things you can do to enhance the experience patients have when they arrive to see you.

Our writers and editorial advisory board members share their resolutions for 2019.

Our writers and editorial advisory board members share their highlights of 2018. 

It may not be the most wonderful time of the year for some patients. Here's how healthcare providers can help. 

Physician assistants can improve the quality of care and reduce physicians’ burden, especially when they want to take a vacation.

In order to foster high-performing teams, organizations need both coaches and mentors.

When we perceive that we’re being verbally attacked, the natural reaction for most people is to respond in kind. However, there is a different way to proceed that often proves to be more successful.

Jennifer Frank, MD, reflects on the struggles she and her patients face when adopting healthy lifestyle habits and why doing so remains worth the effort.

This vision of addiction and chronic pain care is a pipe dream in this era of such limited resources.

Verbal missteps happen to everyone. While ignoring the situation may seem like the best solution at the time, it's not. Here’s how to overcome five common phonetic faux pas.

If not managed correctly, the many details that physician practice owners are responsible for create significant risk. Utilize this article to help you prioritize issues you need to address now to ensure that your medical practice is ready for continued success.

An app that gets patients to pick up their phone without giving them your personal number.

Physicians are specialists in medical care, but they sometimes need help with the business side of medical practice.

Reaching out to groups within your practice can improve morale, invigorate and encourage problem solving, and generally make your work life more pleasant and profitable.

Stop always saying yes and reconsider how you are, or could be, spending time for the benefit of you, your co-workers, and your patients.

Imagine: the freedom to care for patients the way you want to, not the way insurance mandates or regulations require.

Changes in the healthcare industry are necessitating new roles at practices. Here are seven positions you might consider adding to assist patients and staff.

If a raise isn’t in the cards, consider other ways to leverage your workforce.

Find out what a patient experience officer is and why your practice might need one.

A Lean Six Sigma concept can help medical practices boost patient satisfaction and experience by simply looking at who does the tasks required.

Unlike physicians, APRNs, and other health professionals, physician assistants do not receive direct reimbursement from insurers.

Here are some tips for using global health work to fight burnout.

This physician attempted combining story time with his son with EHR pajama time and got mixed results.

BrowZine is a must for anyone looking to carry a wealth of knowledge with them on-the-go.

If you’re committed to having a greater sense of work-life balance in 2018 than you’ve had in recent years, here are five potential leisure activities.