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American ingenuity in healthcare over the last two decades has caused a number of problems in dire need of solutions.

"This is what it's like to decide whether to prescribe opioid pain meds now."

Our medical care system works poorly for most chronic medical illnesses and it costs far too much.

Primary care physicians (PCP) see patients for a wide variety of reasons, but according to a recent study, there’s one category that stands out above the rest-behavioral health.

The opioid epidemic is exacting a lethal toll on the country. We must redouble and accelerate efforts to slow-and hopefully reverse-the current opioid epidemic.

There has been much discord as to the proper role of government in healthcare.

Proposed Trusted Exchange Framework aims to make sharing healthcare data a clearer reality.

Price transparency and sales funnels-what do these have in common?

In between the headache that is healthcare for physicians these days, Medical Economics has tried to insert some laughter into the crazy and hectic lives of our readers through our Funny Bone Comics. Click through to see which cartoons you got the most joy and laughs from this past year.

Read on to find out how EHRs have been affecting physicians this year.

Read on to find out how uncompensated tasks have been affecting physicians.

Readers’ top tips for making the most out of a busy practice day.

Read on to find out how physicians have been struggling to deal with payers this year.

In all aspects of healthcare, we must be able to listen to, and keep confidential, anything that a patient shares, in whatever form it comes. By the same token, we must be able to communicate frankly and openly with patients conveying the necessary message.

Read on to find out how physicians have been battling quality measures this year.

To get ready, we are teasing each challenge and how it has affected the healthcare industry. Read on to find out how physicians have been struggling to manage patient satisfaction, and lack thereof, this year.

We are teasing each challenge and how it has affected the healthcare industry. Read on to find out how physicians have been struggling this year to remain independent in the face of value-based care initiatives

I was recently inspired by another article in Medical Economics, and curiously, have a solution for each legitimate gripe, based on decades of sorting through the combatants in this health-care disaster we’re engaged in on a daily basis.

For the fifth consecutive year, Medical Economics will reveal its list of obstacles physicians say they face in the coming year and, more importantly, how to overcome them. As we did last year, we asked readers to tell us what challenges they face each day and where they need solutions.

"They are called 'Next Gen' ACOs because ti will take a generation before they finally figure it all out."

Tips for physicians to address high blood pressure, meet value-based care targets

The new guidance means that nearly 103 million Americans will now carry a diagnosis of high blood pressure following a visit to their physician.

We've all heard the outrage over the sudden rise in the price of the EpiPen. What we hear far less often is how common the sudden and dramatic rise in many other pharmaceutical prices has become in recent years. It can be easy to forget issues like this until they affect us personally.

Interoperability is important and probably the main driver of cost savings. So where are the IT vendors on interoperability? The answer is probably close to nowhere.

The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) is not going to hold down the increasing cost of Medicare by adding over 1,600 pages of new regulations to the program. Instead, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) should have reduced the cost of traditional Medicare by eliminating the requirement for detailed documentation of evaluation and management (E/M) charges.

When an IT emergency strikes medical practices, there’s a small window to avoid big losses of time and money, so it’s best to have a plan in place.

The practice of medicine in our current healthcare system is making physicians sick, with levels of burnout and mental strain increasing across every specialty.

President Donald Trump has nominated the former pharma executive to lead the nation’s healthcare agency.

Much like the Accountable Care Act (ACA) debate in 2010, the current political debate over repealing and replacing the ACA is focused on coverage and cost.