Practice Management

Vaughn Kauffman, principal at Health Industry Practice Leader, PwC, shared his thoughts on the patient experience and its importance as healthcare moves towards the future, Forbes reports. 

Practices that take a team-based care approach to treatment are seeing higher quality of care numbers, lower rates of acute care use and lower actual payments, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association. 

Worldwide information technology revenues are projected to grow substantially through 2020, according to a Worldwide Semiannual IT Spending Guide: Vertical and Company Size report.

Expert Network Distinguished Doctor named pain management physician Amit Mehta, MD, to its list of Distinguished Doctors.

Here are the top ways physicians use EHRs according to the Medscape EHR Report 2016: Physicians Rate Top EHRs.

The Winter Park, Fla.-based Association of Independent Doctors now holds members in more than half of the nation's states, after adding a member in Ohio this past week.

Epic remained the most highly ranked EHR by physicians in 2012 and 2016, according to "Medscape EHR Report 2016: Physicians Rate Top EHRs."

CMS' accountable care organizations and Medicare Shared Savings Program yielded $1.29 billion in savings over the last four years, according to Med City News.

Boca Raton-based Florida Atlantic University's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine is adding new residency programs to combat the looming physician shortage, according to Florida Trend.

As the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' implement the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, providers will have to begin reporting quality measures through a merit-based incentive system, through alternate payment models or by surrendering a percentage…