Practice Management

Dr. Tait Shanafelt has been studying healthcare worker burnout for nearly two decades. How is the novel coronavirus pandemic impacting the societal shifts and emotional stressors seen in today’s neurology practice?

The use of telemedicine in neurology practice has been on the horizon for a while, but the novel coronavirus has accelerated the need to incorporate it. Here are some resources to get your teleneurology practice up and running.

How one doctor and his team overcame EHR issues and greater-than-three-month patient wait times as well as efficiency challenges: empty rooms and medical assistants waiting for their next assignment. 

“It used to be that medical records were just about remembering treatments and what the patients said, and passing along info to colleagues. Today it is about so much more,” says Isabelle Bibet-Kalinyak, a healthcare attorney from Ohio. “Medical records are now a major source of risk and compliance traps.” Bibet-Kalinyak spoke at the most…

As you think about your practice in 2020, you may be considering how to maximize your Medicare payments through the Merit Based Incentive System, known as MIPS. Most physiatrists will report under MIPS, which has a direct impact on future Medicare payments, according to Dr. Mark Huang and Robert Jasak. The program is updated annually,…

“It’s important to remember that the alternative to telehealth for many is not in-person care, it is no care because of barriers.” —Marla Kaufman, MD Dr. Marla Kaufman, Medical Director & Clinical Associate Professor, Puget Sound VA Hub Site, Telerehabilitation Enterprise Wide Initiative (TREWI), picked up the AAPMR session on teleRehab where Dr. Tapia left…

“It’s important to remember that the alternative to telehealth for many is not in-person care, it is no care because of barriers.” —Marla Kaufman, MD At the 2019 annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (AAPMR), the session on telemedicine was packed with physiatrists curious about how telemedicine can help them…

If you are like many Americans, you’ve already binged the first season of Tidying Up with Marie Kondo on Netflix and started decluttering your house. You might want to hold off, though, and skip straight to another, arguably greater, source of stress in your life: your office. This month on Instagram, Marie Kondo released a…

Most reviews are positive. One bad post in a small pool of reviews, however, can be disproportionately amplified by the power of the internet and the popularity of these websites.

Since the late 1990s neurologists have been involved in the remote care of patients using telemedicine. This has primarily been through telestroke programs, but the application of this technology-driven mode of care has increased to include more than just stroke patients. Today, according to the American Hospital Association, “[Seventy-six] percent of U.S. hospitals connect with…