Electronic medical records and business software packages can do more for a practice than save paper. Several doctors who have made the move discuss what influenced their decision to go paperless and why they won't go back.

Computer- and Web-based tools deliver a refined human-resources concept sometimes called work-force optimization but more commonly referred to as human capital management (HCM).

ln tough economic times, patients are especially likely to seek alternatives to traditional payment methods for cosmetic surgery. And finance companies are responding with creative programs that allow patients to get their Botox or tummy tucks without having to take out traditional loans or maxing out their credit cards.

Between a quarter and a third of an elective surgery practice's revenue is lost by patients who cancel or do not show up, according to one expert, and not resurrecting these patient files, he says, is a mistake.

While experts debate where the United States is on the slide toward, or down into, a recession, and gas prices rise, forcing up the cost of other necessary commodities, cosmetic surgeons are looking at what effect the economy is having, or could have, on their practices.

It's time to reclaim physician opportunity in the retail medicine marketplace, according to one physician medspa owner.

Posting an ad for an associate is not enough. You need to convince job candidates that your practice is desirable.

Expert financial advice boosted doctors' bottom lines—and might help you, too.

Clutter can impair office efficiency and even hamper revenue collection. Here's how to cure the too-much-paper bottleneck.