The Transparent Practice

• Meaningful Use -- An Electronic Health Record Express Train Bearing Down on Our Practice   Robert Morrow, MD, discusses meaningful use and the problem of building electronic health records that matter for both patient care and practice management.
  Medscape Family Medicine, June 14, 2010
• CME Can Save Primary Care -- If We Take on Our Own Education   Robert Morrow, MD, believes that a network of peer educators can provide substance to education and reform CME. What do you think?
  Medscape Family Medicine, May 28, 2010
• The Health Reform Act -- An Opportunity for Physician Power   Robert Morrow, MD, comments on how the health reform act will affect primary care physicians. As always, he has the specific perspective of the family physician in the Bronx.
  Medscape Family Medicine, March 25, 2010
• Implementation Science -- Putting Good Ideas Into Practice   In this video blog, Robert Morrow, MD, hopes that you get involved in projects that are designed to improve practice and revolutionize continuing medical education.
  Medscape Family Medicine, December 30, 2009
• The Cuban Medical System -- More With Less   In this video blog, Robert Morrow, MD, reports on his trip to Cuba and tells us why observing its healthcare system "made him sad."
  Medscape Family Medicine, December 15, 2009
• Big Practice, Small Practice, Part 3   Networked providers, regulatory relief, and reining in of overbearing health plans are among the ingredients in this recipe for relieving the strain on primary care practices.
  Medscape Family Medicine, August 06, 2009
• Big Practice, Small Practice, Part 2   Will the Patient-Centered Medical Home end up being an office tower?
  Medscape Family Medicine, July 30, 2009
• Big Practice, Small Practice, Part 1: Primary Care Economics   This first part of a three-part series describes some of the reimbursement issues affecting the size of primary care practices, and why economy of scale may not apply in primary care.
  Medscape Family Medicine, July 16, 2009
• Who's to Blame for Our High Healthcare Costs? Payer, Payee, or Another Culprit?   Robert Morrow, MD, responds to "The Cost Conundrum," an article published in The New Yorker which blames high healthcare costs on excessive overuse of medicine.
  Medscape Family Medicine, July 09, 2009
• What Can We Learn from the PSA Controversy? Robert Morrow, MD talks about value of PSA screening and how to advise your male patients.
  Medscape Family Medicine, April 08, 2009
• Interpreters in the Office Inserting a stranger as translator into the doctor-patient relationship can present some challenges.
  Medscape Family Medicine, March 30, 2009
• Concierge Medical Practice For whom do we concierge?
  Medscape Family Medicine, October 30, 2008
• Ruc-Ruc-Ruc The Stooges at the AMA have stuck primary care in the eye--again
  Medscape Family Medicine, October 23, 2008
• Denominators R Us How do Plans decide on our bonuses? What's the math?
  Medscape Family Medicine, October 16, 2008
• Collective Bargaining--Go to Jail Robert Morrow, MD points out that it's illegal for physicians to negotiate for pay increase. Now What?
  Medscape Family Medicine, October 09, 2008
• Playing the Healthcare Market--No Longer a Game Will commercial health care survive the debacle of the investment houses?
  Medscape Family Medicine, October 02, 2008
• P4P. A New Twist on a Popular New Language. A new twist on a popular new language by Bob Morrow, MD, in his latest video blog for the "Transparent Practice" series.
  Medscape Family Medicine, August 18, 2008
• Medical Home-So Who Pays the Rent? A slightly unkempt view of what "medical home" is code for.
  Medscape Family Medicine, August 04, 2008
• Might Make Some Money If... Bob Morrow, MD, chats in this video blog about the overwhelming load of nonpaid medical services.
  Medscape Family Medicine, July 14, 2008
• Who Picks What you Learn? It is not the funder of your CME that is crucial -- it's the agenda and the benefit to patient outcomes according to Bob Morrow, MD, in this video blog.
  Medscape Family Medicine, July 01, 2008