Practice Management

The South has high rates of chronic disease and poor health outcomes, and the majority of states still have not adopted the Medicaid expansion to adults, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

In an increasingly digitized world, ensuring cybersecurity is a must, especially for healthcare organizations that handle personally identifiable information and protected health information.

Here are 13 statistics on orthopedic surgeon salary, based on payscale.com data.

Registered nurses earn the highest salaries in the western region of the country, according to the Medscape Nurse Salary Report 2015.

More employers are offering health living/incentive programs, according to Employee Benefit News.

Peter Grinspoon, MD, wrote a memoir detailing his journey from opioid addiction to recovery, according to The Boston Globe.

Of the pool of physicians sued, here are the percentages who were sued while working in seven specific practice settings, according to Medscape Malpractice Report 2015: Why Most Doctors Get Sued.

Thanks to continuous mandates like Meaningful Use and other government regulations intended to keep patient information safe, healthcare organizations around the nation have slowly and steadily made the conversion to electronic health records. With more and more providers requiring EHR…

The Texas State Board of Pharmacy can now obtain pharmacy financial records, according to The Dallas Moring News.

Ninety percent of physicians have experienced physician burnout during their careers, based on a Studer Group analysis, according to Physician's Money Digest.