I picked a great week to fill in for my colleague, Son Hoang, because I probably would have missed this survey otherwise: the 2014 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives. I will be honest; the results made me want to cry for a few different reasons. Reason No. 1 is...
As a physician leader, when you think about publicly reported quality data, do you wince at potentially bad news, or do you welcome that data as another tool for improving patient care? Here is some information you should know about CMS' Physician Compare website and Hospital Consumer Assessment...
One size doesn't fit all when it comes to physician reentry, and that's the way it should be, according to Nielufar Varjavand, MD, associate professor of medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine and program director of the Drexel Physician refresher/reentry course at Drexel...
Although telemedicine has the potential to make access to care simpler and easier, healthcare experts and telemedicine advocates still have concerns that regulatory obstacles are preventing the industry from reaching its full potential, while raising legal questions for both hospitals and...
Since the creation of the Medicare and Medicaid programs in 1965, the public has provided tens of billions of dollars to fund graduate medical education (GME), the period of residency and fellowship provided to physicians after they receive a medical degree. Although the scale of government...
The Court of Appeals of Ohio in the Eighth Appellate District, County of Cuyahoga (the "Court"), affirmed the grant by a lower court of a patient's motion to compel production of an incident report prepared after the patient suffered injuries in a hospital. The Court ruled...
