Practice Management

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.

The medical community is divided on whether patients need to see their physicians every year for an annual checkup, according to USA Today.

Electronic medical record implementation has given healthcare providers tools to track and share patient data. But successful orthopedic surgeons are going beyond the EMR to provide better patient experience and leverage data gathering opportunities.

On a global scale, healthcare is in a period of integration. Major medical centers and physician practices are merging and acquiring one another to form larger networks and leverage partnerships going forward.

Rockville, Md.-based DrFirst, a provider of SaaS software for healthcare, released its Rcopia 4.