Practice Management

Massachusetts primary care physicians ask patients about their mental states half of the time, based on a Massachusetts Health Quality Partners survey, according to The Boston Globe.

The evolving healthcare landscape allows surgeons to perform more total joint procedures in the outpatient setting. With this shift, medical providers must be prepared to handle the transition while maintaining organizational efficiency, quality, supply chain delivery and implant acquisition.

iVantage Health Analytics presented its "2016 Rural Relevance: Vulnerability to Value Study" research at the Rural Health Policy Institute.

Physician assistants earned a median salary of $95,000 and a mean salary of $98,387 in 2014, according to a PA statistical profile from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants, which provides the most recent salary information for PAs.

Physicians Mom Group declared Feb. 3 as National Women Physicians Day in honor of Elizabeth Blackwell, MD, according to The Huffington Post.

The three rules of real estate are: location, location, and location. Apparently Google believes this as well. Google is now penalizing you, or rewarding you, based on your practice address. Google My Business maps (known as the Three-Pack) are now…

Members of the Council of Accountable Physician Practices have authored a five-part series on physician leadership.

Physicians' knowledge about the efficacy and value of aggressive end-of-life care may affect their own end-of-life treatment choices, according to a research letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Forty percent of healthcare providers have growing IT budgets, based on an IDC Health Insight report. The report analyzed the 2015-2016 Healthcare Provider Technology Spend Survey.

Aetna plans to stay in the public health exchange market in 2016, according to Medscape.