Practice Management

How Meaningful Use Mandates Lost Their Purpose

1 February 25, 2015

~ by Linda M. Girgis, MD The meaningful use program began as part of the HITECH stimulus bill, part of the initiative to get ... More

+ February 18, 2015

~ by Dr. Irving Loh, MD Unless you're a health care practitioner who’s been in a coma or a survivalist just now emerging from a ... More

+ January 30, 2015

Doctors are in a unique position when it comes to social media. HIPAA concerns, administrative gaffs and more mean a physician's ... More

+ January 28, 2015

By James M. Dahle, MD, FACEP / Editor of The White Coat Investor I have a noticed a persistent and pervasive pessimism among ... More

2 December 17, 2014

~ by Linda M. Girgis, MD, FAAFP Starting in January 2015, all physicians in Massachusetts must use an electronic health ... More

+ December 1, 2014

Being a doctor isn't what it used to be; crazy busy schedules, wrangling with computerized records, trying to remember ... More

+ November 14, 2014

by Linda M. Girgis, MD, Family Practitioner I often hear patients complain their doctor barely spends time with them at their ... More

+ November 10, 2014

A recent Sermo Physician Poll supports medical personnel receiving flu vaccines to protect both employees and patients. The ... More

+ November 5, 2014

Last night’s “red wave” brought Republicans back in power in the Senate and pushed the House to the biggest Republican majority sin ... More

+ October 28, 2014

Ebola news scrolls by on our screens fast and furious. A suspect case here, a hospital failing there, airborne rumors, social ... More