Practice Management

Physician medical group mergers and acquisitions were up in the fourth quarter of last year, according to the Health Care M&A report from Irving Levin Associates.

Here are four things to know about healthcare data breaches, according to The 2014 Bitglass Healthcare Breach Report.

Eighty-one percent of male orthopedic surgeons and 67 percent of female orthopedic surgeons report that they have been sued, according to Medscape Malpractice Report 2015: Why Orthopedists Get Sued.

Racial stereotypes may play a role in the U.S. opioid overdose epidemic, according to Business Insider.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services outlined the changes to the meaningful use hardship exceptions, detailed in the Patient Access and Medicare Protection Act, according to Medscape.

The American Medical Association launched an innovation company in Silicon Valley — Health2047.

A Transparency Market Research report found the global primary care market will expand at a steady rate over the next few years.

Tens of thousands of patients have filed compensation claims for enduring crippling pain from DePuy's wrong size implants, according to Tech Times.

Seventy-three percent of young physicians were faced with student loan debt after completing with medical school, according to the 2015 Report on U.S. Physicians' Financial Preparedness.

A majority (55.34 percent) of U.S. physicians own guns, according to MD Magazine's survey of 928 physicians.