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Job-seeking docs turn to mobile technology

Smartphones may be driving your IT department crazy, but your HR team loves them. The reason: Smartphones are helping to make it easier to find and hire physicians, according to American Medical News

MGMA: New docs benefit from high demand

With physician shortages and the rise in hospital employment making it more difficult for medical practices to recruit, over half (56 percent) of the newly trained physicians who joined practices

Don't wait to recruit needed physicians

Although the writing is on the wall that many more physicians are going to be needed to meet the increased demand spurred by health reform, some healthcare organizations continue to wait to see how

How practices can meet re-entering physicians half-way

For physicians like Maggie Kozel, MD , the decision to leave clinical practice does not come easily. According to an interview with Forbes, the trained pediatrician turned author and high school

Cut recruitment costs with virtual interviews

When practice finances are tight, the time and expense needed to recruit new physicians can be especially burdensome. But thanks to the proliferation of simple web-conferencing technology, the

Six legal ways for physicians to get money from hospitals

Despite the exponential growth in alignments between office-based physicians and hospitals in recent years, many of which allow physicians to retain their independence, doctors still must navigate a

Three tips to overcome hasty hiring decisions

As with any specialty, the providers in every hospitalist practice should be a good fit for the practice's culture, writes practicing hospitalist John Nelson, MD, MHM, FACP, co-founder and past

MGMA: Hospital-employment trend rippling out to affect compensation

Despite a rocky economic climate, median compensation in primary-care specialties increased modestly--between 7 and 10 percent from 2007 to 2008--according to data from the Medical Group Management