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Virgin Plans To Coordinate GP Care Across Country, UK
Sir Richard Branson's Virgin empire plans to use its newly acquired network of polyclinics to co-ordinate GP services across the country, Pulse can reveal...
Senate Test Vote Today On Bill To Extend COBRA Subsidy, Doc Fix And State Medicaid Funding
The Senate is poised to consider a measure today that would include extending subsidies for COBRA benefits and unemployment insurance, prevent the Medicare payment cut for doctors and provide additional funding to state Medicaid programs...
Physician's Perspective: Bundling Medicare Payments Could Cut Costs, Without Reducing Quality
The Washington Post has a section today titled "Scenes from the 21st century doctor's office." One feature, written by Manoj Jain, an infectious-disease specialist in Memphis, advocates for a new system of "bundled" Medicare payments to doctors. He notes that currently, "patients, insurance companies and Medicare pay separately for each procedure in the predominant 'fee-for-service' model...
Many Doctors, Hospitals Unhappy With Health IT Rules, Despite Windfall
Though the federal government plans to give doctors up to $44,000 each, as well as millions of dollars to hospitals, to help buy health information technology, many providers are unhappy with the stimulus-funded program, the Huffington Post Investigative Fund reports...
Need For Broader Use Of Individualized Learning Plans For Physicians
Physicians would be better prepared for the accelerating rate of scientific discovery - and more in step with the latest in patient-care - if they added an important tool to their medical bags: a plan for how to keep pace with emerging health-care advances...
Health Care Partnership Examined In Canadian Medical Association Journal
A research team from the Laval Centre de sante et de services sociaux, Universite de Montreal and McGill University Health Centre has examined the benefits of greater collaboration between family physicians and community pharmacists for select patients...
Computer Reminders For Physicians Less Effective Than Expected
Computer reminders to physicians regarding prescribing produce much smaller improvements than initially expected, found a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Computerized systems for entering orders and electronic medical records are the two most widely recommended improvements in health care...
Collaborative Care Plans Between Physicians And Pharmacists Have Little Impact On Clinical Outcomes
The use of a physician-pharmacist collaborative care plan to manage lipid control in patients with high cholesterol does not have significant clinical impact, found an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). The role of community pharmacists is expanding worldwide...
News From The Annals Of Family Medicine: March/April 2010
Convenience of Retail Health Clinics Attractive to Patients The time and cost savings offered by retail clinics are attractive to patients, and they are likely to seek care for minor illnesses there given sufficient cost savings, according to a telephone survey of nearly 500 adults...
Prostate Cancer Therapy Correlates To Specialist Seen
New research published in today's issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine (Vol. 170, No. 5), by an investigator at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) and colleagues at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, shows that the type of specialist that men with localized prostate cancer see can influence the form of therapy they ultimately receive...
Preparing Tomorrow's Physicians Today
The world of medicine is rapidly changing. In less than 100 years the way medicine is practiced and administered has been transformed with the introduction of sanitation measures, pharmaceuticals and technology advances that are ever-evolving...
Legislation Requires Hospitals To Disclose Prices In Wisconsin
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: "The frustration of finding out what hospitals and doctors charge for common services -- from routine office visits to diagnostic tests and surgical procedures -- could soon get a lot easier in Wisconsin...
Study Examines Perceived Barriers To Care For At-Risk Patients With Diabetes
Diabetes affects approximately 8 percent of the people in the United States and adults with diabetes have heart disease death rates two to four times higher than adults without diabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association...
AMA Enters Health IT Partnerships
The American Medical Association has made deals with computer retailer Dell, and Ingenix, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, to "help physicians adopt and implement electronic health records", the Chicago Tribune reports. The terms of the deals were not released, but one part of the arrangement with Ingenix will be to offer doctors a Web-based medical record system called CareTracker...
Federal Court Rejects California Medicaid Cuts
The San Francisco Chronicle: "A federal appeals court barred California on Wednesday from lowering Medi-Cal payments to doctors and hospitals by 5 percent and from cutting in-home care workers' wages by nearly 20 percent, saying the state's budget crisis doesn't justify violating federal laws that protect the poor and disabled. In four rulings, the Ninth U.S...
Washington State Cracks Down On Prescription Fraud With New Paper And Ink
The Seattle Post Intelligencer/Everett Herald: "Patients who get written prescriptions will see changes this summer aimed at curbing fraud. Come July 1, prescriptions will be printed on tamper-resistant paper with Mission Impossible-like ink that changes color when rubbed with a finger...
New Jersey Hospital Offers Luxury With Health, Wellness
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on Virtua Health system's newly opened Health and Wellness Center in New Jersey, and calls it "the new face of luxury." The center was a $31 million investment by the non-profit group and it is expected to do well. "While many New Jersey hospitals grapple with barely-there operating margins and a national slowdown in construction, Virtua is growing. ...
Treatment Errors Report, Germany
Current health care is not as safe as it should be. In the current issue of Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2010; 107[6]: 92-9), Barbara Hoffmann and Julia Rohe explain the reasons for adverse events, as well as measures to ensure better patient safety. Treatment can make you ill...
Future Of Australia's Health In GPs' Hands
Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has just presented the Government's National Health and Hospital Network for Australia's future report, which he described as 'the most significant reforms to health and hospitals since the introduction of Medicare'...
Wasteful Medical Spending Clogs Health Care Industry
CNN: "Consider this: For every dollar the nation spends on health care, 50 cents is wasted. According to a 2008 report by Pricewaterhouse Cooper's Health Research Institute, wasteful spending accounts for $1.2 trillion of the $2.2 trillion spent on health care in the United States...
Today's Editorials And Opinions
Why Aren't We Talking About Prices? U.S. News & World Report If our opaque and often secretive health-payment system were made transparent, the ground would be laid for consumers to find better premiums and prices for their families. One way to do this would be through open, fair, and guaranteed access, for any citizen, to competing insurers anywhere in the country (Bernadine Healy, 3/2)...
State Supreme Court Weighs Medical Malpractice Caps In Case That Would Impact Doctors, Patients
The Kansas Health Institute has a package of stories about a malpractice case being considered by the Kansas Supreme Court in which the justices could determine if the state's caps on medical malpractice awards are constitutional. The case involves Amy Miller, who underwent surgery to have an ovary removed. But the surgeon took the wrong ovary and later she had the second one taken out...
Stimulus Spurs Health IT Adoption, But Rush May Hurt Programs' Quality
Within the next two years, 58 percent of small physician practices surveyed by Accenture and Harris Interactive will have begun using electronic medical records, Computerworld/BusinessWeek reports...
Major Tech Firms Join Ranks Of Health IT Squad
"The race to streamline online access to medical records turned into a stampede this week as leading high-tech vendors trumpeted new initiatives at the Health Information and Management Systems Society" (HIMSS) trade show in Atlanta," InternetNews...
Concerns About Unnecessary Scans And Radiation Risk Prompt Reviews By Doctors
Business Week reports on a study that finds 1 in 4 MRI and CT scans are inappropriately recommended by doctors. The study appears in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. The researchers analyzed 459 scans at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. "'Of the 459 reviewed, 74 percent were considered appropriate and 26 percent were considered inappropriate...
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