In a Medical Economics article, Jeffrey Bendix, Daniel R. Verdon, Alison Ritchie, Donna Marbury and Chris Mazzolini, lays out the top 10 challenges and opportunities that physicians will face in the coming year.
The top 10 challenges and opportunities are:
1. Payment for medical services.
2. Government mandates.
3. Payer headaches and the fine print.
4. Time.
5. Technology costs.
6. Staffing and training.
7. Putting control back in the hands of physicians.
8. Changing patient populations.
9. Primary care's changing role.
10. Work-life balance.
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