Map your path to a safe practice.

Pathways for Patient Safety gives ambulatory-care organizations essential know-how and tools--free.

Medical practice today: what you have to say. Your top challenges: results from MGMA's second annual member opinion survey.

Results from our annual questionnaire asking about the challenges you face in your job and career put the sagging economy at the forefront. But you emphasized that you also must contend with myriad other issues--and offer commentary on topics ranging from physician recruitment to ethics to quality in health care.

E-prescribing can be new tool in quality-care arsenal.

Electronic prescribing is one of the newest tools in health care's arsenal to help "Renew our Mission of Quality Patient Care," the theme of this year's National Medical Group Practice Week. Physicians--who can be reluctant to change their paper-based ways--are learning to write and send prescriptions via electrons rather than by pen or voice. Is your practice ready for e-prescribing?

Strength in numbers. Medical group practices fill vital niche in U.S. health care system.

As the Medical Group Management Association initiates and celebrates National Medical Group Practice Week, Jan. 26-30, we look back at the evolution of this care delivery model in the United States. Echoes of the historical forces shaping group practice remain; modern pressures continue to influence it.