Practice Management

Losing steam — 7 findings on physician burnout

Burnout among physicians is a real and mounting issue, according to the Medscape Lifestyle Report 2016: Bias and Burnout. The report defines 'burnout' as "loss of enthusiasm for work, feelings of cynicism and a low sense of personal accomplishment."

Most physicians support CDC opioid prescribing guidelines: 6 observations

A recent survey of more than 1,600 physicians found 87 percent of respondents "would welcome and use" the CDC guidelines on opioid prescriptions. The guidelines discourage primary care physicians from prescribing opioids for chronic pain relief, according to Pain News…

5 things to know about the benefits about shared medical appointments

Orlando Health in Central Florida is seeing patients in groups to spend more time with patients. When sharing medical appointments with their peers, patients experienced several health benefits, according to ABC 10.

Which specialties have the highest % of burned out physicians? 10 statistics

Here are the top 10 specialties with highest percentage of physicians experiencing burnout, according to the Medscape Physician Lifestyle Report 2015.

5 ways to crush Yelp reviews: Get more Yelper reviews - Part 3 of 5

Yelp is like a snobby parrot. It screeches out whatever it hears from its friends, but ignores comments from strangers. These friends are fellow Yelpers, and Yelpers are your best - and practically only - way to get positive Yelp…

Cloud-based medicine: 10 key tools for physicians

As more small practices switch to cloud-based electronic health record systems, Practice Fusion named a few of the most popular free Cloud-based tools for physicians.

Catering to the consumer — Only 2% of patients use healthcare apps

Only 2 percent of patients use healthcare apps despite 66 of the 100 largest hospitals in the United States offering the apps to patients, as found in an Accenture report, according to Healthcare IT News.

7 key challenges to practice profitability

A majority of physicians report declining reimbursements are the biggest challenge to physician practice profitability, according to The Third Annual Practice Profitability Index Report by CareCloud and QuantiaMD.

Walgreens, Advocate Health Care partner for operating Chicago-based in-store clinics: 5 key notes

Walgreens is partnering with Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care to transfer over operations of a number of its in-store clinics in Chicago, according to a Crain's Chicago Business report.

Do physician reviews accurately assess care? — 6 takeaways

Patients are increasingly using the Internet to help them make decisions about healthcare and view physicians' ratings, leading many in the medical community conflicted about the validity of such reviews, according to KSL.com.