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• Nothing like deadlines to make things happen!!!!!

  
  How to Manage a Camel - Project Management and Recruitment — Authority: 124
  The last few weeks have been some of the busiest in the NHS Project management world, specifically with a flurry of activity surrounding the National Programme for I.T. We saw a local NHS Trust – Bury Primary Care Trust – go live with Lorenzo electronic patient record (EPC) software , the first trust to use ...
  8 hours ago

• College

  
  Medical Marginalia — Authority: 112
  So, as many of you know, I have joined the ranks of academia. Ha ha, no I havent seen all ADD and STIs. Youre funny. In fact, I havent seen an STI in the four-plus months since I started. That makes me a little sad. I miss trich. I havent seen a lot since residency and for some reason, seeing that little protozoa ...
  13 hours ago

• How should doctors discuss healthcare reform with patients?

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 608
  "> "> Originally published in HCPLive.com Physicians are increasingly bringing their views on healthcare reform into the examination room. Others are distributing flyers or taping up signs in the office. Given that healthcare reform has become such a contentious subject in the United States, it is not ...
  17 hours ago

• Doctors and patients need to learn to live with health insurance companies

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 608
  "> "> by Marie Cooper Consider two patients with the same managed care plan. One has multiple sclerosis and receives an infusion of Tysabri every month. It needs pre-certification. The requirements are black and white. The patient qualifies if they have relapsing/remitting MS and have failed other ...
  19 hours ago

• Study Examines Quality And Duration Of Primary Care Visits

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 738
  Adult primary care visits have increased in quality, duration and frequency between 1997 and 2005, according to a report in the November 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. "Two of the most pressing goals for the U.S. health care system are to deliver higher-quality care and ...
  19 hours ago

• Health Care Financing Reform: (63) Commonwealth Fund Report on Primary Care

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       The Commonwealth Fund surveyed thousands of primary care physicians from several industrialized countries.  The findings help to explain why Americans pay so much more for health care but somehow have worse health than the people of other countries.      The study surveyed 10,000 primary care ...
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• Discussing Adverse Events With Patients Improves How They Rate Their Hospital Care

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 738
  A survey of patients had who experienced some sort of adverse event during their hospitalization found that, although caregivers discussed the event with patients less than half the time, those patients to whom the adverse event had been disclosed rated the quality of their care higher than did patients whose ...
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• News From The Annals Of Family Medicine November/December 2009

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 738
  Pay for Performance Reporting Costly for Primary Care Practices Responding to payer requests for quality and performance data can be costly for primary care practices, with estimated costs of implementation ranging from less than $1,000 to $11,100 per practitioner, and maintenance from less than $100 to $4,300 per ...
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• Telemed group to demonstrate remote care as an employee benefit

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 146
  “The American Telemedicine Association is teaming up with a Washington, D.C.-area primary-care practice to attempt to prove the value of telemedicine as an employee benefit that can promote worker health and productivity, reduce absenteeism and save money–and to secure a place for telemedicine in a reformed ...
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• What to do with homegrown IT solutions

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 146
  “Sharp Community Medical Group (SCMG), comprising 200 primary care physicians and 500 specialists in private practices in the San Diego area, and Graybill Medical Group, based in Escondido and one of the largest primary care practices in California, are going to develop a patient management and electronic health ...
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• US Lags in Health IT for Primary Care

  
  Healthcare Technology News — Authority: 108
  46% of U.S. primary care physicians report using electronic medical records (EMRs) significantly trailing other leading countries. EMRs are "nearly universal" in the Netherlands (99%), New Zealand (97%), the U.K. (96%), Australia (95%), Italy (94%), Norway (97%), and Sweden (94%). The Commonwealth Fund report on A ...
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• Shocker: Doctor Visits Are Getting Longer

  
  WSJ.com: Health Blog — Authority: 681
  A new analysis looked at visits to primary-care docs between 1997 and 2005.
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• H1N1 flu is potentially life threatening to people of all ages

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 608
  "> "> Originally published in Insidermedicine H1N1 flu can cause serious illness, resulting in hospitalization and even death among individuals of all ages, according to surveillance information coming out of California that was published in the November 4 issue of the Journal of the American ...
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• U.S. continues to trail other countries in physician IT adoption

  
  News — Authority: 128
  The Commonwealth Funds annual survey of international health policy is out, and, to nobodys surprise, primary-care physicians in the U.S. and Canada continue to trail their counterparts in Europe and the South Pacific in terms of health IT adoption. The survey, published as a Health Affairs web exclusive, finds that ...
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• Money Changes Physician-Patient Relationship

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 570
  As medical costs escalate employers and insurers are requiring individuals to pay more of the bill with increased deductibles and out of pocket co-pays. This new consumerism may call for physicians to talk to patients about money, according to researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Requiring ...
  2 days ago

• Do patient demands drive up health care costs?

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 608
  "> "> According to recent data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, upwards of 60 percent of patients first consult the internet for their health issues. This is leading to more educated patients, taking an increasing role in their own health care. And that’s a good thing. I’d rather be ...
  2 days ago

• New York Times Looks At Doctors Crucial Role In Reshaping U.S. Health System

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 738
  Doctors and hospital payment systems remain at the center of the health care reform debate as news outlets examine the benefits of replacing the current fee-for-service approach.
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• Norwegians GPs’ use of electronic patient record systems

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 146
  ObjectiveTo evaluate GPs use of three major electronic patient record systems with emphasis on the ability of the systems to support important clinical tasks and to compare the findings with results from a study of the three major hospital-wide systems.MethodsA national, cross-sectional questionnaire survey was ...
  2 days ago

• National Nurse Practitioner Week

  
  Healthy Hearts with Heartstrong — Authority: 461
  Did you know that a nurse practitioner (NP) can examine, diagnose, prescribe, treat, counsel and educate you on healthcare needs?  NPs are different from other healthcare providers – they focus on the whole person when treating specific health problems and they educate their patients on the effects those problems ...
  3 days ago

• Ten top medical blog posts, October 2009

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 608
  "> "> Here are the top posts from the past month, based on the number of times they were viewed. 1. Two nurses face jail time for reporting a doctor to the Texas Medical Board 2. Why pregnant women should get the H1N1 flu vaccine 3. Why doctors should choose Google Android over the iPhone for medical ...
  3 days ago

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