Practice Management

ChartLogic recently announced Stella, a voice recognition overlay compatible with all electronic health record systems.

Hospitals are purchasing physician practices and employing physicians at some of the highest levels in roughly two decades. Here are the top 25 highest-paid physician specialties, with average salary figures, that were in hospital-owned practices based on the most recent…

Here are six tips to improve productivity at orthopedic and spine surgery centers.

Here are 15 hospitals expanding their orthopedic services.

The University of Connecticut Medical Center has begun construction on a new facility to house its orthopedics and sports medicine specialists, according to a report from the Record Journal.

Brent Ashby, administrator of Audubon Surgery Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., leads two surgery centers that perform a combined case volume of 18,000 cases annually. He discusses eight strategies the ASCs use to attract, accommodate and maintain robust case volume…

John Knight, MD, is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon who specializes in hand and wrist surgery at the Hand and Wrist Institute in Dallas. 

Here are 20 statistics on physician specialties that invest in surgery centers, according to Medscape's Physician Compensation Report 2011.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, passed in March 2010, creates several programs that aim to increase healthcare quality and lower costs. One of the most recognizable of these is the Medicare Shared Savings, or accountable care organization, program.…

The S&P Healthcare Economic Composite Index indicates that the average per capita cost of healthcare services covered by commercial insurance and Medicare programs increased a little more than 5 percent over the 12-months ending December 2011, according to a news…