Practice Management

Orthopaedic Institute for Children hired Jamie Wells, RN, as clinical director for the new ambulatory surgery center.

The Keystone Orthopaedic Associates and Orthopaedic Associates of Reading settled a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, according to JDSupra.

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."

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…

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.

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

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…

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.

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.

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.