Health organizations must consider both operations and strategy in the planning process to survive and thrive in the new healthcare era. By doing so with careful planning and execution, practices can maximize revenue, reduce expenses, grow their prac...

This article discusses leadership styles and four habits of effective practice managers.

Meetings are supposed to be helpful, but they do the opposite when they’re excessive, badly timed or poorly run.

Research shows people — including physicians — travel through two stages while pursuing a goal. Understanding the process can help us stay the course.

Here are four ways to spark creativity at work when your brain’s in a rut.

Although practices should perform some internal auditing, if this is the only auditing done, there is the risk of the “fox watching the henhouse” effect. There are many considerations in establishing an audit program for physician practices, but the ...

As health care providers are being asked to address population health issues as well as those of their patients, some physician leaders see opportunities to have an effect beyond the examination room.

It turns out that taking care of worker health and well-being is the most effective way to increase engagement and performance. This article offers a comprehensive list of the “don’ts,” with suggestions on what to do instead.

The patchwork of medical marijuana laws that vary from state to state leads to confusion and controversy for many physicians.

Implementing a specific operating room management curriculum will, ideally, allow residents to gain practical and theoretical experience in this area and develop a better understanding of the scope of administrative medicine.

Strategic management is all about positioning your company relative to your competitors so that your performance will be better than theirs. In Part I of this article, we presented the internal considerations for a successful strategy; in this part w...

When two or more members of the medical practice team are locked in a conflict, their animosity can turn a healthy working environment into a toxic space. That is why the medical practice manager needs to develop skills in conflict prevention, confli...