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Your patients are online, and they’re searching for information about their symptoms. Maintaining a medical blog for your practice is an effective way to take advantage of this changing landscape of online medical knowledge and virtual physician-patient relationships.

With the prevalence of online self-diagnosis tools, the nature of physician-patient exchanges has shifted significantly. Search trends show that a large number of people research their symptoms online. In the U.S., one third of adults say that they have gone online in an effort to self-diagnose. 77% of these online searches begin with a major search engine such as Google, Yahoo, or Bing.¹ With Google reporting in 2016 that they handle more than 2 trillion searches per year,² and that 1% of all searches were related to medical symptoms,³ that’s more than 20 billion web searches for medical symptoms on Google alone every year.

Four federal tort reform bills that could affect medical liability law have passed the House of Representatives in the first session of the 115th United States Congress, with an additional medical liability bill having been introduced in the House.^1,4

The decision to begin a business philanthropy effort as part of your practice is a very personal one, both in the desire needed to take it on and in the causes you select. But if you’re a practice owner, it’s also a business decision because you need to be mindful of how it will impact your bottom line. Cash donations add strain to already tight budgets, and even organized volunteering is likely to take up some of your staff’s time to coordinate sign-ups, rally the troops, and select organizations to work with.

Whether it’s a hurricane, an earthquake or secondary damage from a fire, many disasters involve extensive water damage to paper and electronic records. How you handle recovering water-damaged records is critical to ensuring the most complete recovery possible. Below are recommendations for what to do — and what not to do — as part of your disaster recovery.