Almost every practice manager at one time or another finds himself or herself suddenly saddled with a new program, system, or other major contract commitment signed by a physician.

This article provides definitions and brief explanations of terms important to practice management.

This article offers guidance in identifying employee burnout and how to best manage and reverse it.

Operating the better part of a year under the strain from a COVID-19 pandemic, our healthcare workforce continues to undergo significant change — predictably.

Successful health care innovation follows the pattern of successful science. It requires laboratories where experimentation is encouraged and can proceed safely so that change seems less fraught.

Although bias itself is devilishly hard to eliminate, it is not as difficult to interrupt. In the decades we’ve spent researching and advising people on how to build and manage diverse work groups, we’ve identified ways that managers can counter bias...

Having more time does not necessarily mean that we use it wisely. So, what are we doing wrong?

Management of hospital operations during a wildfire has become commonplace for caregivers in Sonoma County. This field report aims to compare the 2017 Tubbs Fire incident and the more recent 2019 Kincade Fire incident and highlight operational interv...

There are three strategies leaders can use to make decisions more effectively when they’re new to an organization.

This SoundPractice podcast episode offers answers to questions like these and covers many other aspects of how the spaces that surround us can help or hinder health and wellness. Our guests are Esther Sternberg, MD, of the Andrew Weil Center for Inte...

The typical person makes about 2,000 decisions every waking hour. Most are minor — what to wear to work in the morning, whether to eat lunch now or in 10 minutes. But many of them require real thought and have serious consequences.

Management of hospital operations during Wildfires in northern California is becoming a normal experience in the fall. This field report provides some key tactics that physician leaders can put in place in acute care facilities in the event of a disa...