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NewsObama's budget delays deep cuts to physician payments
Although President Obama's proposed $3.73 trillion budget for 2012 calls for more than $1 trillion in slashed spending, it protects doctors from steep cuts in their Medicare payments with a two year Read more...
Short-sleeved shirts accumulate just as much bacteria as long-sleeved white coats
When it comes to infection control, short sleeves aren't any better than long ones. Doctors' long-sleeved white coats don't harbor more bacteria than short-sleeve shirts, according to a study Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: MD + MBA = $$$
It's not unusual for us health writers to think, "If I had a dime for every time I heard a practice management expert say that physicians have inadequate business skills to run a practice...," writes Read more...
Reform bill now includes pharma, devicemaker disclosure of physician consulting
For years, various legislators have struggled with the issue of doctors' accepting payments from drug and device manufacturers, arguing that such relationships were questionable, at best, and harmful Read more...
Patients connecting with physicians via social media
While some physicians may dread the idea, patients are increasingly eager to connect with them via social media. Increasingly, patients are seeing this as a way around the limitations of traditional Read more...
Case study: ED visits soar in MA
As FierceHealthcare readers know, more patients are seeking care in emergency departments than ever before, taxing not only EDs but hospitals as a whole. This problem includes hospitals in Read more...
In tough times, doctors bartering for treatment
Back in the old days--say, the early 1900s--doctors might very well have been paid for their services with a chicken or a few fresh-baked pies. Bartering, in fact, was more the rule than the Read more...
Eli Lilly to disclose payments to physicians
In a historic move, but one that is likely to become more common as drugmakers work to hold off threatening legislation, pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly and Co. has said that next year it will begin Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Are doctors and patients at war?
Increasingly, it seems that doctors and patients are at war, with both feeling misunderstood, frustrated and even hostile. Worse, patients aren't feeling very trusting. In fact, according to one Read more...
South FL is capital for MDs without malpractice insurance
Thanks in part to a state law letting physicians go without malpractice insurance, South Florida has become the nation's capital for doctors who have chosen to "go bare," experts say. Almost Read more...
| Press ReleasesDr. Paul Toote: Helping and Healing Go Hand-in-Hand at National Premed ConsultingMCKINNEY, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Most people become doctors because they want to help people. Dr. Paul Toote, an Emergency Medicine Physician and Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, not only became a Read more >> U.S. News & World Report Names Mid Atlantic Spine and Pain Physicians Founder and CEO ‘Top Doctor’Dr. Frank J.E. Falco, M.D. Recognized in the Top One Percent of His Specialty Nationwide ELKTON, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Mid Atlantic Spine and Pain Physicians (MASPP), the most comprehensive pain Read more >> Collaborative Effort Launched to Facilitate Doctors Helping Doctors Transform Health Care: First Area of Focus is Health ILive Webcast Today at 10:00 a.m. EST at www.doctorshelpingdoctorstransformhealthcare.org WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Addressing the pressing need to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of Read more >> Over 30,000 Physicians Use Doximity to Securely CollaborateIn Just Seven Months Professional Medical Network Signs On 5% of US MDs, Double that of LinkedIn SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Doximity today announced it is the largest Read more >> Practice Fusion Awarded as No. 1 EMR for e-Prescribing and Helping Doctors Achieve Meaningful UseBrown-Wilson's independent survey of 120,000 ambulatory medical providers finds Practice Fusion as the leader in key Electronic Medical Record (EMR) featuresSAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ Read more >> |
