Opinion

One of the missions of health insurance providers is to ensure patients have access to effective, quality, evidence-based care. Clinical practice guidelines support the practice of evidence-based medicine, and are typically derived from recognized scientific sources such as specialty societies and are updated annually.

Before joining or forming a virtual group to report metrics through CMS' Quality Payment Program, there are a number of issues for practices to consider.

One doc's perspective on how the White House has done when it comes to fixing healthcare.

Three strategies for prevention of burnout

Industry insiders share their views of how healthcare is moving steadily toward a connected future.

Time spent on EHR data entry instead of interacting with patients is a common complaint from doctors.

ChangeMaker Ira Rubin, MD, and his son, Zachary, discuss the value of reaching out to young people interested in medicine to make today’s students tomorrow’s physicians.

In this podcast, Dr. Forrest highlights the failures he has experienced over the years since starting a DPC practice, and explains how other physicians can learn from his mistakes.

Because of his vast knowledge of the novel practice model, we asked Brian Forrest, MD to give us his best advice for physicians who are wanting to start their own DPC practice and be successful

CMS announces a commitment to give patients control of their records.

With the advent of new direct-acting antiviral agents, HCV treatment has greatly improved, making identification of infected individuals even more imperative.

More effort needed to integrate screening with follow-up care to prevent spread of the virus.

A methodology that revolutionized the motor industry is being used to prevent physician burnout.

Healthcare leaders are working on a nationwide plan to help institutions prevent physician burnout.

Perils of Replacing Physicians with Non-Physician Providers, Part 2

Four solutions to an age-old problem

Pamela Wible, MD, has dedicated herself to raising awareness about this issue and changing the conditions that lead so many physicians to take their own lives. Here's what Wible says physicians can do about the suicide issue to help themselves and others.

Recognition of the pivotal role that outpatient clinicians and documentation play in meeting value-based care objectives is driving support for clinical documentation improvement (CDI) programs in the physician practice setting.

Pamela Wible wants physicians to start talking about the issue of doctor suicides

Alexi Nazem is chief executive officer and cofounder of Nomad Health, a healthcare technology startup designed to connect freelance physicians with locum tenens work.

Medical Economics spoke with Forrest on his motivations for starting a DPC practice and where he sees the movement heading.

Lisa Larkin, MD, has started two practices from scratch, directed a university-based women's health center, helped to start a regional consortium for sexual medicine, and survived breast cancer.

"People always ask me where I find the time, but you know what, I make the time to teach these students."

The skyrocketing number of Americans dying from opioid overdoses has physicians, public health officials and politicians scrambling for ways to stem the epidemic.

Five steps for physicians to start putting their health first.

Medical Economics recently spoke with Peter Goldbach, MD, chief medical officer with Health Dialog, a provider of population health management services, on the importance of shared decision-making in medical care and improving patient outcomes.

Sometimes when trying to fix one problem, you end up creating many, many more.

Keeping credit card information on file can ensure patients pay their bills and that those payments come through promptly, but it comes with risks.

For 2018, there are changes to the requirements of CPC+. I will focus on the CPC+ electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs).