- Getting paid for prevention: Physicians facing coding challenges
- New Web site on imaging safety draws criticism
- Missouri Supreme Court: Doctors can sue if hospitals ignore bylaws in privileging issues
- Aetna launches personalized health search engine
- Medicare pay bill: Raises to replace cuts through 2009
- Similar drug-name pairs nearly double 2004 tally
- Latest Medicare projections renew alarm on long-term sustainability
- Motivating the mediocre: Getting the maximum out of someone who's giving you the minimum
- Patients generally pleased with hospital care
- Online feedback site adds doctor category
- More physicians backing national coverage -- study
- Crimeproof your practice: How to improve office safety
- Advanced-practice nurses seek wider scope in 24 states
- Medicare disease-management pilot faces closure over costs
- U.S. report finds sluggish increases in quality of care
- Walk-ins welcome, but only if they're healthy
- Doctor-staffed retail clinics to open
- Boomer loyalty: Insurers draw on a little help from their friends to market pre-Medicare coverage
- Hospital told to check bylaws on exclusive deals
- Foiling a fake (book excerpt: Charlatan)
- Physicians examine the role of annual checkups in prevention
- Baby boomer time bomb: Too many aging patients, too few geriatricians
- Lawyers' misconduct triggers new liability trials
- Harvard offers discount on med school tuition
- Doctor disciplinary actions down for 3rd year
- Rulings limit patients' ability to sue device firms, drugmakers
- Calculate your ideal patient load: How to strike the correct balance
- Health plans say they'll risk losing members to protect profit margins
- Hospitalized kids found at risk for drug errors
- Study: Med schools can boost rural physician supply
- Med schools asked to shun drug firm freebies
- Misfortune telling: Folding together data to forecast your patients' health futures
- Social networking etiquette: Making virtual acquaintances
- E-prescribing campaign aims at patients to reach doctors
- Gearing up for a graying generation: Training more doctors in geriatrics skills
- AMA encourages future physicians
- Formula for rationing care: Task forces plan for disaster
- Google enters personal health record market
- Twilight of the beeper: Today's technology offers other ways of keeping connected
- FDA drug safety review to start with Medicare
- More Americans find insurance pays for visits to retail clinics
- Revitalizing dead space: Finding an innovative place for your practice
- Patients rarely use online ratings to pick physicians
- Medical schools on target to reach enrollment goals
- Minorities underrepresented in California doctor work force
- AMA meeting: Physicians demand greater oversight of doctors of nursing
- Making the practice switch: One doctor became an employee, the other started his own office
- 6 rules cutting Medicaid delayed until 2009
- Drug industry: No more free pens, pads or mugs
- Med school for judges: A crash course in medical litigation
- Kansas court enforces noncompete clause
- Dead doctors' IDs used to bilk Medicare
- Ethics consultants get doses of realism through simulations
- Medicare DME bidding program on hold
- Greening your practice: Cutting costs while conserving energy
- Final Medicare no-pay rule targets 10 hospital-acquired conditions
- Most states said to have good rules on pain medicines
- Academic leaders work to ease work force crisis
- Work-hour limits found to create little respite for residents
- Sponges, surgical instruments miscounted in 13% of surgeries
- Doctors decry payment delays after Medicare overhauls carrier system
- Court dismisses Arkansas specialty hospital's lawsuit
- Medical student stress and burnout leave some with thoughts of suicide
- Google uses online queries to see where flu interest is peaking
- AAMC report says 30% med school enrollment hike is not enough
- Defensive medicine widespread among Massachusetts doctors
- Tech-savvy med students fear life without EMRs
- Wikipedia often misses important drug facts
- TV doctors' flaws become bioethics teaching moments
- New treatment guidelines address chronic pain
- Shortages forecast for orthopedic surgeons, gastroenterologists
- Several states face battles over optometry scope of practice
- AMA letter backs Obama's broad principles for health system reform
- Doctor gets jail time for online, out-of-state prescribing
- Academic physicians avoid burnout by focusing on favorite tasks
- Press releases found to exaggerate research findings
- Many hospitals cut back on infection-control efforts
- Scientific competencies for med students defined
- How to reduce your practice's credit card fees
- Did a strep infection bring Mozart's finale?
- Apologizing for medical errors may not stop you from being sued
- Tips on talking money with patients
- "I'm sorry": Why is that so hard for doctors to say?
- Your practice manager: controlling too much?
- Online contact growing between physicians, patients
- Lawyer sanctioned for filing frivolous liability lawsuit
- Type 2 diabetes early screening cost effective
- Idaho orthopedists settle antitrust case over alleged insurer boycotts
- No-show rates lowest when patients called by human being
- Evidence-based care poorly understood by patients
- Primary care gets boost with $250 million in HHS grants
- Prompt-pay law extension vetoed in Georgia
- More retail clinics opening at Target
- Diabetics' A1c, cholesterol levels improve when they join in treatment decisions
- Wrong-patient, wrong-site procedures persist despite safety protocol
- Drug rep visits rarely result in better prescribing, study says
- CMS to revamp IT systems for better integration and service
- Facebook "friend" request from patient? French doctors decline
- Suicidal thoughts plague one in 16 surgeons
- Medical oaths less of a moral compass for physicians
- Physicians still in high demand as health care job creation slows
- AMA delegates vote to keep conflicts out of CME
- Ethics essential in writing practice guidelines, AMA house decides
- Why HHS abandoned "mystery shopper" study
- Online tool to help consumers estimate medical costs
- Mayo Clinic adds Spanish social media sites
- Informed-consent documents called too long and complex
- Culturally competent practices can drive up good will -- and patient traffic
- Most doctors face lawsuits, but few lose them
- Physicians rely on search engines to help find clinical information
- More patients seeing only allied health workers
- Can a computer program teach patient empathy?
- Doctors' legal remedies can defeat online attacks
- Nearly 90% of physicians feel stressed every day, report says
- Doctors have to manage smartphone distractions
- Company withdraws contracts controlling online comments by patients
- How to conquer clutter in your physician office
- Aetna wellness programs available for purchase on Best Buy shelves
- Med students to get training to treat PTSD, combat head injuries
- Federal rule would ease access for face, hand transplants
- Clarity needed on how and when to report medical adverse events
- Hospital employment pits work rules against physician rights
- Legal immigrants eligible for Massachusetts insurance plan
- Medicaid medical homes saved $1 billion in North Carolina
- CBO: Raising Medicare age to 67 would save $148 billion over decade
- Spending growth on physician services sinks to record low
- Big insurers investing in mobile health apps
- Practice management companies look to ACOs for growth
- CVS retail chain clinics expand while Walgreens operation stalls
- States consider requiring physicians to use drug-monitoring databases
- Free preventive visit can end in sticker shock for patients
- Telemedicine boosting dermatology care