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The failure of the state's General Assembly to extend the CON law does not mean that the Department of Health will be silent on the matter. The first of two articles to examine the legal impact of this event on the health care market.

Six steps to structure your choice of medical practice software. Forming an educated selection team, focusing objectives, defining requirements, interacting with vendors and more. A guide to pre-empt chaos and frustration.

Dissatisfaction with medical practice is higher than you might expect. Learn how doctors in the state view medical savings accounts, single payer system and other policy priorities, and how for-profit marketplace priorities compare to those views.

Examines obstacles to the lastest management rage and offers a wiser approach to personnel management.

Explains what tax law changes you need to know about in the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, and the Taxpayers Bill of Rights 2.

How the Federal Trade Commission has revised its antitrust enforcement policies regarding your IPA or PHO. You may no longer need to engage in financial risk-sharing to avoid antitrust violations.

How an offsite computer-based management information system can be used achieve higher clinical practice efficiencies by wire. What to outsource and what to keep in-house.

How can you combine diverse photographic and diagnostic records as part of a practice which includes ophthalmic care, education and research? Take a look at how it's being done at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Why you are reading this, and what more you can expect.

A brief history of its transformation in three phases: visionary, consensual and corporate, as experienced by Fredric D. Burg, M.D., former vice dean for education at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.