Practice Management
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Cognitive screening of older physicians: What’s fair?
A new report leads to questions about how to standardize the process rather than have a piecemeal institutional approach and whether to focus less...
Opinion
The power and promise of person-generated health data – part 1
Health-related data from personal computing devices such as wearables and smartphones could sharpen diagnosis and treatment.
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Your colleague appears depressed. Now what?
Experts share tips on how to react when fellow physicians appear depressed or suicidal.
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Breaking through a ‘cloud of silence’
“When you look after a doctor, you have to be a little suspicious that they may be covering up their suicidality,” said Dr. Michael F. Myers.
From the Journals
Expedited review programs not shortening drug development
While it may be hard to understand the impact of the many expedited review programs introduced at the FDA, there is still room for improvement in...
From the Journals
Insurance coverage mediates racial disparities in breast cancer
“Without insurance coverage, the lack of prevention, screening, and access to care, as well as delays in diagnosis, lead to later stage of disease...
Latest News
Big practices outpace small ones in Medicare pay bonuses
Most physician practices earned a Medicare performance pay raise, but the raises are relatively small.
Medicolegal Issues
Medical malpractice: Its evolution to today’s risk of the “big verdict”
Those who practice unreasonably risky medicine are few and far between, but they drive up medical malpractice claims paid as well as insurance...
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Vermont tops America’s Health Rankings for 2019
Mississippi wins/loses its annual battle for the bottom with Louisiana.
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HealthCare.gov enrollment ends with unexpected extension
Trump administration brings stability to “what remains a failed experiment,” the CMS administrator said.
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Appropriations bill, now law, eliminates ACA taxes, raises tobacco age
The appropriations bill includes a number of other health-related provisions, including increasing the minimum age for purchasing tobacco to 21....