Business of Medicine
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COVID drove telehealth forward in high gear: Now what?
Experts speaking at the American Telemedicine Association conference focused on how investment in telehealth spiked during the pandemic and what...
Hitting a Nerve
Move away from the screen ...
A recent study found that people who stopped using social media for 1 week had “significant improvements in well-being, depression, and anxiety...
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‘Goodie bag’ pill mill doctor sentenced to 2 decades in prison
Regardless of the patients’ complaints, the internist gave them tote bags with prescription drugs, including muscle relaxers, anti-inflammatories...
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ED staff speak out about workplace violence, ask for mitigation
How much is workplace violence contributing to the great resignation in health care and what might be done to make clinicians feel more supported...
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Innocent doc sued after 'secret' medical expert says claim has merit
“You never get to determine whether they, in fact, had a certificate reviewer who was legitimate.”
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‘Together, we can demand improvements’: Stanford Health Care’s residents vote to join union
More than 81% of the health system’s resident physicians voted to join the union.
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The puzzling thing about puzzles
Some things remain a mystery despite our attempts to solve them.
Conference Coverage
Telehealth continues to loom large, say experts
Nine out of ten patients would recommend telemedicine to friends and family, and most physicians say they’re willing to devote significant time to...
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Docs find new and better ways to cut EHR documentation time
Speech-to-text software is still the most popular solution, but more physicians are now using human scribes, driven by the decisions of some large...
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Multistate opioid crackdown nets indictment against seven physicians
“Today’s takedown targets medical providers across the country whose greed drove them to abandon this responsibility in favor of criminal profits...
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