The Basics of Investing in Private Companies: A Q&A
While private investments in early-stage companies have the potential for significant upside, they also carry significant risks. If adequate documentation is not available, proceed cautiously, if at all.
Physicians Could Save Billions with Electronic Transactions
Simply shifting from manual to electronic transactions for just 6 processes could save physicians and other healthcare providers billions of dollars.
How to Prevent Embezzlement in Your Practice
Healthcare practices continue to suffer from embezzlement problems. While there is no such thing as a perfect system to prevent embezzlers, there are ways to deter them.
Defeat Overspending Triggers
Most people don't realize how closely emotions affect financial spending, which can lead to poor decisions and overspending. But knowing potential triggers can help you overcome them in the future.
Hail the Lowly Business Card
Business cards are often an afterthought for physicians, but they are still an important and potentially powerful tool for both your patients and your career.
Path Opens for Physicians to Invest in Healthcare Startups
Medical research funding is critical, but many promising startups never reach clinical stages due to a lack of funds. However, the path has opened up for even the average investor.
Considerations for Getting Approved for a Mortgage
After years of delayed gratification, most young physicians transitioning from residency or fellowship into practice want to buy a house they will be happy living in.
States with the Highest, Lowest Physician Pay
The physician turnover rate is at its highest level since 2005. As doctors look for new jobs, they may want to avoid the states where they will earn well below the national average for physicians.
Expensive Helsinki
There's one important thing to remember about Helsinki while planning for a trip: it's expensive. However, there is a lot to see and do.
Money Topics Too Awkward to Discuss
Some money conversations are easy to discuss, but people find these ones particularly difficult, according to a survey from Northwestern Mutual.
How to Reduce Costs While Improving Patient Satisfaction, Safety
As healthcare organizations look to cut costs while increasing patient safety and satisfaction, the focus is all landing on how to make the employee happy.
Your Financial Psychology Determines Your Financial Success
Understanding your financial psychology will provide greater insights into why you handle money the way you do. Everyone falls into one of 2 basic financial attitudes.
Half of Internal Medicine Positions Went Unfilled
Roughly half of all family medicine and internal medicine positions remained unfilled last year, leaving large gaps in primary care access for many communities.
Fitness and Personal Health Apps Could Pose Privacy Nightmare
Currently, fitness data gathered and stored by wearable fitness trackers, can potentially be sold to third parties, like employers, insurance providers, and other companies, without the users' knowledge or consent.
Most Livable Cities in the World
It's unlikely a coincidence that the most livable cities in the world received perfect scores for both their healthcare and their education.
Baja California: Perhaps the Best Part of Mexico
The pristine simplicity of Baja, the best part of Mexico, is hard to resist. There is a reason why a small boat cruise into the Gulf of California, aka the Sea of Cortez, is on many persons' bucket lists.
6 Ways Current Healthcare Spending Measurements Unfairly Penalize Physicians
Healthcare spending measures are increasingly being used to reward or penalize physicians, hospitals, and other providers, but there are 6 fundamental problems with the current system.
2 Contrarian Plays for Long-term Investors
If you want to own the asset class that's likely to go up the most, you might start by evaluating the ones that are currently liked the least.
The Benefits of Marketing Your Medical Practice
Everyone likes choices, and medical care is no exception. That's why it's so important for physicians to market their medical practices.
Most Hated Stocks
Investors often look to stock analysts to gauge the potential of a company's stock. And analysts really don't like these 10 stocks.
Sometimes Being Lazy with Your Investments Is Good
People sometimes get lazy, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. For instance, there are certain areas of your investments that don't benefit from too much focus.
Madrid Unplugged
Spain's best-kept secret offers excitement, stunning architecture, and walkable neighborhoods.
Moving into the Age of Digital Health
As the days of the file folders crammed with patient information passes, the question becomes what doctors' offices will look like in the digital age.
Should Physicians Be Prescribing Health Apps?
A few years ago the idea of physicians prescribing apps to their patients seemed ridiculous. However, health apps have become a large market and physicians are embracing them when interacting with patients.
A Third of Americans Have Made the Worst Retirement Saving Mistake
Nearly a third of Americans have made one of the worst retirement savings mistakes, and nearly half who have regretted doing so.
A Pre-retirement Financial Checklist
As doctors enter their 50s and 60s, many start dreaming about retirement; unfortunately, properly planning for retirement requires as much time and effort as planning a career.
Avoiding Risk with Household Staff
Although physicians have learned the value of proper workplace procedures and insurance coverage in their medical practices, few are likely to be as professional with household help such as nannies, maids, and gardeners.
As Physician Compensation Increases, so Does Turnover
Provider organizations are reporting stronger financial performance and slightly higher average compensation increases, according to a report from the American Medical Group Association.
Patients Struggle to Understand Test Results Viewed on EHRs
Although, broader adoption of electronic health records has given patients access to their lab results online, a new study indicates people may not understand what they are seeing.
Why Smaller May Be Better
Despite the assumption that larger practices provide better healthcare, a new study found smaller practices had fewer preventable hospital admissions.