With last year’s election firmly cementing the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (“ObamaCare”) into the American healthcare system, physicians wanting to maintain practice independence are looking for different economic models that would offer them the necessary revenue stream without joining a large healthcare system to ensure adequate patient flow. I had the opportunity to […]

Have you ever thought about policing your employees and finding out what they do own their own time? Do you worry that your employees might be undermining the image of your practice? Recently, the University of Pennsylvania Health System and the Cleveland Clinic have banned the hiring of people who smoke. According to a recent […]

While social media has firmly established itself as a new way of communicating in nearly every corner of today’s society, it still remains full of landmines for physicians. They run the risk of accidentally breaking HIPAA regulations, of accidentally entering into doctor-patient relationships, and they run the risk of giving out inadequate medical advice by […]

A recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, and reported on ChicagoTribune.com, will probably reinforce what many ER health care providers already know: just because discharge information is explained thoroughly, doesn’t mean that it is understood or that it will be retained. The study interviewed 395 people age 65 and older after being discharged from […]

As we promised with our first Google Glass article, we are continuing to write about this fascinating, new technology, that also has us a bit weary. A recent article of interest on CNet.com, about Stanford Physician, Dr. Abraham Verghese, discusses his use of Google Glass with the Stanford Medicine 25 initiative. The program includes hands-on […]

MITSS, Medically Induced Trauma Support Services, is an organization that every care giver should know about. If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that we often write about medical errors and the frequent, resulting fall-out of charges of medical malpractice on care givers. But, today, instead of talking about the consequences […]

A recent article posted on FoxNews.com, titled, “Failure to diagnose is top reason for suing doctors,” should give many physicians pause. Typically, when one thinks of medical malpractice and reasons for being sued, one usually conjures up visions of major medical errors and the accidental infliction of harm upon a patient. But, this is not […]

The New York Times recently had a very interesting article, titled, “Nightmares After the ICU,” and we’re not talking about the bills the patients receive after their stay. But seriously, the article dives deeply into the idea that stays in the ICU can be so traumatic and stressful that they can cause PTSD. And, research […]

We know there are a lot of you out there who have resisted moving to an EHR solution.  However, you want to be able to take advantage of technology to communicate via email to your patients.  Can you do this, and should you? Well, unfortunately this is not an easy question to answer.  We here […]