American Medical News Articles on Practice Management

Some hospitals have been successful by launching apps that give patients access to their medical records. Physician practices might find similar interest.

How physicians pay employees can be more important than what is paid to ensure they are productive — and aren't looking for work elsewhere.

A report shows how health organizations can reduce their bottom lines by creating a culture of cutting environmental costs.

Tax credits and other options are available to help physicians cover the expense of making their offices able to accommodate patients with disabilities.

Health IT systems were retested after complaints and found ineligible to meet requirements despite previous approval. What’s a medical practice to do?

Doctors need to review both contracts to see how they would be affected if they lost their jobs, or their staff privileges.

Physicians say Allscripts misled them about a software program's functionality and quality. The case could encourage more litigation as doctors become dissatisfied with systems.

Health care is experiencing a major overhaul, and practices face the brunt of the changes. Careful planning is needed to guide practices through it all.

Here are some positive steps physicians can take to ensure that these patients show up for their next appointments.

Supplied with government data ranking them among the best for value of care, doctors at these facilities keep fighting to lift expansion restrictions.

A message to all physicians from AMA President Jeremy A. Lazarus, MD, on private practice in these days of health care reform.

An accurate mapping of the process patients encounter through clinical visits and care episodes helps practices identify waste and areas that need improvement.

Understanding how and why the exposure of data occurred will help prevent future incidents from happening.

A renewed focus on the patient experience and efforts to improve quality of care are expected to raise scores even further.

Now that patients can send messages at any time, physicians need to determine how timely responses should be — especially when they're not in the office.

Medical offices must train employees adequately about confidentiality rules to avoid legal risks, experts say.

Practices have many options to gain tighter relationships with hospitals without making an outright sale.

Patients will be flipping through magazines longer for the foreseeable future because the ranks of the newly insured will surge in 2014.

A $25 million settlement shows the government's willingness to go after health systems that deal with physicians on a handshake basis.

It's rare for employees to set up fictitious accounts to route money to themselves, but it happens and it's very costly.