Practice Management News

Primary care providers can use self-assessments and other resources to diagnose medically unexplained chronic symptoms and offer relief for patients, according to an expert.

In this edition, FDA approves Rybrevant for advanced lung cancer, screening orders in eligible patients higher with digital health program and more.

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Amita Patnaik, MD, FRCPC, about providing patient access to breakthrough drug developments, bringing early phase cancer trials to physicians and more.

In our prior blog post, we discussed the frequent need to separate, from a legal and financial perspective, the real property from the practice in order to consummate a practice transaction with a private equity buyer.

Upgrading pediatric readiness in EDs would reduce the deaths of pediatric patients by almost half, according to study results published in Health Affairs.

ChatGPT may be more likely to recommend unnecessary treatment, such as x-rays or antibiotics, during ED visits compared with physicians, a study results published in Nature Communications suggested.

Cockroaches contributed to an outbreak of multidrug-resistant Enterobacter cloacae in an ICU over the course of 20 months, according to a study that linked outbreak strains to strains found in the insects.

Billing for electronic messages through the patient portal can cause confusion and create communication barriers between clinicians and patients, according to study results.

Harmful diagnostic errors may occur in one in 14 hospital patients, the findings of a retrospective cohort study published in BMJ Quality & Safety suggested.

On Feb. 16, HHS, through its Office for Civil Rights and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, published its final rule amending federal regulations protecting confidentiality of substance use disorder treatment records.