Employee culture and patient care played equal roles in the turnaround tale of a medical center in Washington state, says the chief medical officer who helped it find a new, winning way.

Physician leaders and their organizations need a strong understanding of the benefits of harvesting and analyzing information about their patients — from cost savings to better individual treatment.

This article discusses project management for implementing a new brand into a medical practice or a hospital, and how to prepare a time schedule and a cost analysis to see that the project is completed on time and within budget.

The pace of change in the field of medical practice management is unprecedented. Independent physician practices can still be financially viable if the leadership team becomes nimble in adopting necessary operational changes that support opportunitie...

This article discusses technology that is helpful for small practices and that can be implemented into a practice easily and inexpensively without the assistance or employment of IT specialists.

This article defines 10 lessons we have learned over the last four years as we integrated RN-driven care management in our practice.

This study looks at a consolidated urology practice that has combined many physicians from many smaller groups, and how it is performing in terms of physician productivity.

This article discusses the use of the relative value unit as a metric of productivity and how the use of this metric levels the playing field.

This was a retrospective, cross-sectional study to determine whether a relationship exists between work relative value unit (wRVU) awareness and wRVU accumulation among faculty physicians. Considering the financial importance of wRVU generation for h...

This article presents a general overview of the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model and briefly explains how it relates to the other healthcare reforms taking place.

There are two distinct paths within a Patient-Centered Medical Home transformation: one that centers on the completion of the application and another that focuses on the true care transformation. Either one without the other does not provide a true p...

Research conducted by members of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians (recently renamed the Obesity Medicine Association) and others shows remarkable health benefits associated with wellness protocols that limit the intake of carbohydrates an...