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Credentialing, hiring and retaining personnel, maintaining a solid revenue cycle — running a successful medical practice requires more than simply seeing patients. …

Everybody makes mistakes. Even Albert Einstein wasn’t perfect. For healthcare professionals tasked with handling protected health information (PHI), though, mistakes can be …

The healthcare industry has always been at the forefront of technological innovation. Still, one of the most significant shifts we’ve seen recently …

Is Google Voice HIPAA-compliant? Yes. And no. It depends. How is that for a murky answer? If the answer to the question …

Do you ever get overwhelmed when shopping for everyday items? When you go to the grocery store for toothpaste, there are numerous …

I still remember my friends’ phone numbers from childhood. Back then, we only had landlines, with no smartphones, to store each other’s …

In recent years, Direct Primary Care (DPC) has emerged as a promising alternative to traditional healthcare models, offering patients more personalized attention …

Trauma Specialists of Maryland, a pioneering outpatient mental health practice, specializes in providing trauma therapy to clients across Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. …

Did you know that more than 2,700 robocalls are made every second in the United States, totaling over 1 billion weekly? The …

While charting the journey from the X-ray to the MRI or from penicillin to gene therapy and beyond is fascinating, one healthcare area that has perhaps more quietly been transforming over the past two decades is patient communication.

Some family medicine physicians follow the AIDET® Fundamentals of Patient Communication: acknowledge, introduce, duration, explanation and thank you. Others use the RESPECT Model, which focuses on rapport, empathy, support, partnership, explanations, cultural competence and trust. Doctors who do not communicate effectively with their patients probably don’t utilize any proven method. 

Despite the threats of economic downturn, the cosmetic surgery industry has continued expanding over the past several years. While some expected the pandemic to slow industry growth, combining more disposable income and video platform time increased interest in cosmetic surgery. Coupled with the strong rise in patients under 45—a generation based on sharing on social media and with fewer taboos about talking openly about their procedures and experiences—we are seeing a wave of new patients coming into practices. Even more are coming, with the industry expected to post a CAGR of almost 10% annually through 2030.