Since Dr. Tiffany McCormack began her practice with just a few employees, she’s grown into a full team offering everything from lasers and injectables to vaginal rejuvenation in a 12,000-square-foot facility featuring a surgery center and a medical spa.

Every practice has them — those quiet, often overlooked moments right before the consultation begins. The patient is seated. The provider isn’t in the room yet. Maybe they’re scrolling through their phone. Maybe they’re glancing around. We call these “The Golden Minutes,” and if you’re not using them intentionally, you’re leaving money on the table.

Interoperability is critical for healthcare practices in 2025. It’s how information systems, devices, and applications securely connect to share data.

Abbreviations can seem like a real gift in a healthcare practice, where many of the words you commonly use are long and the time to add them to the notes is short. But without some kind of standard policy for their use, abbreviations can lead to confusion and even to dangerous medical errors.

You’re working hard to build a successful practice where patients feel safe, cared for, and respected. Part of earning that trust is making sure their private health information stays private.

In nearly every successful med spa, the driving force behind most bookings, product sales, and treatment plans is one clear persona: the female patient. She is loyal, proactive about her appearance and health, and highly likely to refer friends or family when she has a great experience. But there’s a massive untapped opportunity just waiting to walk through your doors — and she’s the key to bringing it in, or rather, him in.

Patient care is at its best when it involves seamless coordination among multiple providers with different expertise. However, there can be challenges with sending and receiving patient information with another practice, especially if their technology isn’t equipped to facilitate smooth collaboration. To keep provider communication flowing, encourage data sharing from one practice to the next, and keep patients more informed about their care, the federal government created regulations around information blocking and other EHR mandates.

This year’s Mental Health Awareness Month is winding down, a nationwide campaign originally launched by Mental Health America in 1949 to promote mental well-being. Today, more resources have become available in nontraditional ways, and med spas have been improving mental health without most clients realizing it.