Schwartz Foundation: Inclusion, voice, and choice
The Healing Healthcare Initiative builds on six key principles.
The best earning opportunities for doctors
Doximity has up-to-date info on the specialties that pay the most.
Online reviews are becoming more important to patients in choosing their care: How to manage your online reputation in health care
Keep patients healthier, happier, and coming back for life.
Morning Medical Update: U.S. to end COVID requirements; Adolescent suicide rates have doubled; General Mills flour recall
The top news stories in primary care today.
Simulating the people aspect of care with AI technology
AI can help physicians refine their people skills to improve care
What to consider if your private practice is an acquisition target
Physicians need to conduct a careful analysis of multiple factors before considering an acquisition by a health system or other buyer.
Schwartz Foundation: Six principles to heal
How do we address the nation’s mental health crisis?
Effective treatment requires coordinating primary, behavioral health care
Primary care must evolve to survive
Primary care is inefficient, inconvenient, and often inaccessible, optimized neither for patient experience nor positive outcomes.
Healing the healer: The Physician Support Line
Launching in 2020, the Physician Support Line is available to medical students, resident/ fellows, attending physicians, and retired physicians.
Morning Medical Update: Is it ‘COVID Eye’ or allergies?; Major shortage of physicians over next decade; Chatbot medical responses get good reviews
Schwartz Foundation: Start with data and build
Changing the culture of health care organizations.
Avoid "diworsification" of your portfolio
A slavish devotion to diversification can be self-defeating.
ACP unveils program aimed at reducing gun violence
Goal is to encourage doctors to talk with patients about firearms safety and preventing gun-related deaths and injuries
Negotiating payer contracts
Take control of your payer contracts and get the money you deserve.
Telehealth fraud still a target for feds even as COVID-19 pandemic winds down
New online toolkit explains what investigators look for when examining telehealth payments through Medicare.
Providing culturally competent care
How cultural competence helps physicians improve outcomes and achieve value-based financial incentives
Not screening for anxiety? Costs and solutions
For most patients, anxiety treatment begins with a visit to their primary care physician.
Morning Medical Update: Penicillin shortage as syphilis cases rise; U.S. cigarette smoking rate at all time low; What makes ‘junk food’ junk?
Lack of transportation often leads to skipped medical care
Study shows that one-fifth of adults with no transportation skipped medical care last year
Four common pitfalls your first year in practice
Tips from a health care attorney
Addressing chronic disease requires holistic, personalized approach to care
A focus on communication and building patient trust with can lead to reversing chronic conditions
Schwartz Foundation: Healing Healthcare Initiative
A new collaborative program to improve conditions for health care workers.
Rural Hospital Support Act aims to offer additional financial assistance for rural hospitals and bolster health care access for rural communities
There are potential implications for primary care access if lawmakers take action – or don’t.
Report highlights need to eliminate racial health disparities
Morning Medical Update: Menopause symptoms cost billions; Man accused of treating thousands without a medical license; Cranberry juice does help prevent UTIs
Health care experts develop new guides in the battle against burnout
If your practice needs a blueprint for change, here are four new offerings from AHRQ, Mayo Clinic, AMA, National Academy of Medicine.
Physician author takes on physician moral injury
New book by Wendy Dean, M.D., discusses the disconnect between physicians’ ethics and beliefs and our health care system.
How to hire (and retain) go-getters
There are two types of employees: go-getters and gonnas. To be successful, you need to hire the former.
Male doctors earn $110,000 on average more than female doctors
Gender pay gap down slightly, but much work remains to be done
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