What causes physician burnout, and what can be done to prevent it?

Banner health system standardized the process across multistate divisions, with consideration of the legal issues, tactics and process-flow implementation.

More than 100 physician, hospital and health care leaders gathered at the 11th annual Thought Leadership Retreat at National Harbor, Maryland, in October.

Donald Berwick, a former CMS administrator, shares eight ways for doctors to let patients share the lead in their care and reap the benefits.

This article demonstrates that America’s growing patient safety problem is not the failure of individual physicians. It is a contextual and systemic failure, one that will require major changes in how care delivery is structured, reimbursed, technolo...

Every medical practitioner should read this article, which takes you through a lawsuit process. The journey through this lawsuit will affect how you practice medicine. It also will give you a new respect for the importance of meeting the standard of ...

This article attempts to highlight core differentiating attributes of the four most widely recognized CMS-approved medical home accrediting agencies: the National Committee for Quality Assurance, the Joint Commission, the Accreditation Association fo...

Careful advance care planning (ACP) supports dying individuals and their families and reduces unwanted, unnecessary, and burdensome medical interventions and needless suffering and confusion. Physician offices are a major site of initiating (“trigger...

Physician leaders should remain mindful of the extremely costly and potentially harmful treatments they and their teams order.

For pain physicians who operate labs, the business is particularly lucrative. Yet, how often testing reveals serious drug abuse remains tough to pin down.

The physician leader who helped pioneer the hospital chain’s ProvenExperience concept will provide an overview on Thursday, Nov. 30. Sign up now.

About 50 health care leaders attended the Florida gathering to hear about ways to engage and cultivate physician leadership at their organizations.