Practice Management

At the 12th Annual Spine, Orthopedic and Pain Management-Driven Conference in Chicago on June 13, Laura Miller, editor in chief of Becker’s Spine Review, facilitated a panel discussion on the future of orthopedics.

Disciplinary meetings are difficult, but at times, necessary conversations, according to a Houston Chronicle Small Business article.

A little under 20 percent of physicians plan on implementing an electronic health record system in their practice the coming year, according to The Second Annual Practice Profitability Index: 2014 edition, sponsored by CareCloud, in partnership with QuantiaMD.

The Medscape Orthopedist Compensation Report 2014 reported orthopedic surgeons on average see up to 100 patients per week, spend up to 16 minutes with each patient and have nine or fewer hours of paperwork each week.

Being brought in front of a state medical board is stressful experience for any physician, however, it essential that physicians take the necessary steps to successfully make it through a medical board hearing, according to a Medscape Business of Medicine…

A little more than one third of physicians are uncomfortable with their technology vendor viability, according to The Second Annual Practice Profitability Index: 2014 edition, sponsored by CareCloud, in partnership with QuantiaMD.

  Effective collaboration depends on people, not technology, according to a Microsoft Business blog post.

Approximately 11 percent of physicians spend more than 50 percent of time per week on administrative work, according to The Second Annual Practice Profitability Index: 2014 edition, sponsored by CareCloud, in partnership with QuantiaMD.

Here are six key characteristics of effective medical practice teams, according to an article in Family Practice Management:

  A majority of physicians agree that patient engagement programs, such as disease management for high-risk patients, is the most promising trend to improve operational performance at medical practices, according to The Second Annual Practice Profitability Index: 2014 edition, sponsored…