A new, publicly available data file on physician group practices has been released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Comparative Health System Performance Initiative.

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Electronic health record (EHR) log data have shown promise in measuring physician time spent on clinical activities, contributing to deeper understanding and further optimization of the clinical environment.

Consolidation among physician practices and between hospitals and physician practices has accelerated in the past decade, resulting in higher prices in commercial markets.

Interview with Mehraneh D. Jafari, MD, and Kasra Ziai, MD, authors of Association of Compensation From the Surgical and Medical Device Industry to Physicians and Self-declared Conflict of Interest

Interview with Alicia Fernandez, MD, author of Physician and Trainee Experiences With Patient Bias, and Lisa A. Cooper, MD MPH, author of Confronting Bias and Discrimination in Health Care—When Silence Is Not Golden

Interview with Laura Hawks, MD, author of Trends in Unmet Need for Physician and Preventive Services in the United States, 1998-2017, and John Z. Ayanian, MD, MPP, author of Looking Back to Improve Access to Health Care Moving Forward

Interview with Christopher P. Childers, MD, PhD, and Melinda Maggard Gibbons, MD, authors of Assessment of the Contribution of the Work Relative Value Unit Scale to Differences in Physician Compensation Across Medical and Surgical Specialities

Interview with Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA and Christine K. Cassel, MD, authors of Societal Perceptions of Physicians: Knights, Knaves, or Pawns?

Interview with Robert H. Brook, MD, ScD, author of What If Physicians Actually Had to Control Medical Costs?

Interview with Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD, author of A Physician Management Infrastructure

Interview with Allan S. Detsky, MD, PhD, author of Physician Communication in the 21st Century

Interview with Bimal R. Shah, MD, MB, author of Association Between Physician Billing and Cardiac Stress Testing Patterns Following Coronary Revascularization

Interview with Peter Budetti, MD, JD, author of Physician Medical Identity Theft

Interview with William J. Calhoun, MD, author of Comparison of Physician-, Biomarker-, and Symptom-Based Strategies for Adjustment of Inhaled Corticosteroid Therapy in Adults With Asthma: The BASALT Randomized Controlled Trial

Special interview by Howard Bauchner, MD, Editor in Chief of JAMA, with Robert M. Wachter, MD, and Abraham Verghese, MD, MACP, authors of The Attending Physician on the Wards: Finding a New Homeostasis

Interview with J. Michael Gaziano, MD, MPH, author of Multivitamins in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Men: The Physicians' Health Study II Randomized Controlled Trial

Interview with Jon C. Tilburt, MD, MPH, author of Views of US Physicians About Controlling Health Care Costs

Interview with Laura A. Petersen, MD, MPH, author of Effects of Individual Physician-Level and Practice-Level Financial Incentives on Hypertension Care

Interview with Douglas B. White, MD, MAS, author of Prevalence of and Factors Related to Discordance About Prognosis Between Physicians and Surrogate Decision Makers of Critically Ill Patients

Interview with Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD, author of Attitudes and Practices of Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide in the United States, Canada, and Europe

Interview with Michael Nurok, MBChB, PhD, author of Relative Value Units and the Measurement of Physician Performance

Interview with Donna Michelle Zulman, MD, and Abraham Verghese, MD, authors of Practices to Foster Physician Presence and Connection With Patients in the Clinical Encounter

Interview with Sandro Galea, MD, author of The Role of Physicians in Addressing Social Determinants of Health

Interview with Paul J. Young, PhD, author of When Should Clinicians Act on Non–Statistically Significant Results From Clinical Trials?