Breaking news on primarycare
Conference To Focus On Sustainable Health Care Transformation published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:00:00 PDT
CPM Resource Center (CPMRC), an Elsevier company and leader in assisting healthcare organizations improve practice at the point of care, has announced that its 19th International Conference will take place Jan. 19-22, 2011, at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero in San Francisco...
Easing Sleepless Nights: New Guidelines published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Insomnia and other sleep disorders are very common, yet are not generally well understood by doctors and other health care professionals. Now the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) has released up-to-the-minute guidelines in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, published by SAGE, to guide psychiatrists and physicians caring for those with sleep problems...
Chronic Lyme Disease: How Often Is It Diagnosed And Treated? published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT
The existence of chronic Lyme disease is an issue of sharp debate within the medical community. Some health care workers who call themselves "Lyme literate" insist that chronic Lyme disease is frequently diagnosed and treated by primary care physicians...
Sorell Family Practice Wins RACGP Tasmania General Practice Of The Year Award 2010, Australia published
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:00:00 PDT
Sorell Family Practice in Sorell, 25 km north-east of Hobart, has been named the winner of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) Tasmania General Practice of the Year Award 2010...
More Patients Research Their Own Diseases, Seek To Manage Chronic Conditions published
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:00:00 PDT
News outlets report on how the delivery of health care is being changed by empowered patients. USA Today: "In the past, most patients placed their entire trust in the hands of their physician. Your doc said you needed a certain medical test, you got it. Not so much anymore. Though some doctors find the newer 'empowered' patients taxing, others ...
Study Suggests That Staggered Radiologist Work Shifts Improve Patient Care published
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Implementation of staggered radiologist work shifts can expedite the communication of urgent findings and improve patient care, according to a study in the September issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology...
Tech News: Feds Name Health IT Certifiers; IBM Seeks To Crack China's Health Sector published
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:00:00 PDT
Federal health officials gave two firms -- the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology in Chicago, Ill., and the Drummond Group in Austin, Texas, -- the power to certify electronic medical record vendors effective immediately, The Hill reports. "As providers move toward mandatory adoption of EHR systems, HHS created an incentive program designed to encourage the transition...
Physicians Assistants, Nurse Practitioners Take On More Primary Care Duties published
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 PDT
In the final part of a three-part series on primary care, NPR reports on physicians assistants and nurse practitioners taking the place of physicians as deliverers of primary care. "Unlike physicians in primary care, the number of physician assistants and nurse practitioners are on the rise...
Today's Opinions: Health Law's Benefits For Workers; Dropping Repeal Efforts; The End Of Health Brokers published
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 PDT
Will Health Overhaul Provide Better Care For U.S. Workers? The Atlanta Journal-Constitution This legislation will undoubtedly help our workers and our businesses, both large and small, afford health coverage. Politicians of all stripes should recognize the opportunity the health reform law presents to propel our country forward (Rep. Jim McDermott, 8/30)...
Alliance's GP Commissioning Federation Takes The Lead published
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PDT
The NHS Alliance's GP Commissioning Federation council has had its inaugural meeting this month in London. The event was attended by a large number of clinical leaders representing all regions in the country; these leaders bring with them a wide range of experience, expertise, views and successes in clinical commissioning...
Award-Winning Study: Hardening Of The Arteries Doubles The Risk Of Mortality published
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 PDT
Research prize for Bochum's medics They also pointed out that the disease can be diagnosed and counteracted by means of a simple comparison between arm and ankle blood pressure carried out by a GP. Their highly regarded work has now been conferred the Best PAD Research Award 2010 by the Peripheral Arterial Disease Coalition...
Mandatory Flu Vaccine For All Health-Care Personnel: Recommendation By Nation's Leading Infectious Diseases Experts published
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 PDT
Influenza vaccination of healthcare personnel is a professional and ethical responsibility and non-compliance with healthcare facility policies regarding vaccination should not be tolerated, according to a position paper released by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)...
AMA Supports Recommended Medical Loss Ratio Rules published
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:00:00 PDT
The American Medical Association and state medical societies are supporting a proposal by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners on what expenditures insurers can consider medical spending under the new health law...
Health IT: New Medicaid Rules, A Race For Meaningful Use, Fraud Prevention published
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:00:00 PDT
Instructions for state Medicaid directors to distribute some of the funding for electronic medical records through their programs beginning next year have been circulated by the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, American Medical News reports...
Neb. Judges Take Action On Antiabortion Law, Request To Restore Prenatal Services published
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:00:00 PDT
In Nebraska, a federal judge recently approved an agreement to block a law that would have required extensive screenings for women seeking abortions, while a county judge denied a request to restore prenatal care services for low-income women. Summaries appear below...
Health Care Costs Weigh On Employers, Jobless Alike published
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:00:00 PDT
News coverage reflects the ways in which employers, employees and unemployed people are confronting health care costs. Employees are resisting state and local government efforts to shift more health costs to workers, The Wall Street Journal reports...
Issues In Primary Care: Medical Homes And Ethical Concierge Practices published
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:00:00 PDT
News outlets report on trends in the primary care workforce, including medical homes and concierge medicine. In the second in a three-part series on primary care, NPR reports on "a nonprofit regional health care collaborative in Maine that's trying to build medical homes in the state...
Health Care Spending Falls; Drug And Health Care Companies Slow To Advertise Online published
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:00:00 PDT
Bloomberg Businessweek: "Investors traditionally have viewed shares of health-care companies as havens from economic concerns. Now, many parts of the sector have drawn concern from investors amid worries the U.S. economy will slow in the second half of the year. ... So far this year, U.S. patient visits to doctors' offices fell 7...
Doctors' Religious Beliefs Affect How They Provide End-Of-Life Care, Study Finds published
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:00:00 PDT
CNN: "A doctor's own religious practice can become quite relevant to patient care, especially when end-of-life issues come into play. A new study finds that doctors who are not religious are more likely to take steps to help end a very sick patient's life, and to discuss these kinds of decisions, than doctors who are very religious...
Bleeding In Cirrhosis Patients May Be Reduced By Adherence To Practice Guidelines published
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Compliance with practice guideline-recommended treatment for cirrhosis is associated with a reduction in first esophageal variceal hemorrhage (EVH; bleeding), according to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute. Cirrhosis is a condition in which the liver is permanently scarred or injured...
GPs Can Help Close The Gap: Report, Australia published
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Better identification of Indigenous patients in general practices would improve their access to Medicare benefits such as health checks that could help 'Close the Gap', yet many GPs don't consider ethnicity to be relevant to quality of care, according to a study from The Australian National University...
Sermo Report Indicates That Ticagrelor Is Likely To Affect The Standard Of Care For ACS Patients published
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:00:00 PDT
Sermo, the world's largest online community for physicians, announced a free Sermo Report titled, "FDA Committee Recommends Approval for Ticagrelor." The report covers physician opinions about the introduction of an investigational oral antiplatelet treatment for acute coronary syndrome (ACS)...
US Oncology Invests In The Development Of Physician-Payer Risk Contracting Model With Milliman Assistance published
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Innovent Oncology, a subsidiary of US Oncology, has engaged Milliman, a premier global, actuarial and consulting firm, to help develop models in which physician-led oncology organizations can contract around risk, with the intent of negotiating with payers in the first half of 2011...
$1.3 Billion In Detroit Hospital Upgrades Could Drive Up Health Costs published
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:00 PDT
A new report suggests that $1.3 billion in upgrades to hospitals in Detroit could drive up health care costs. The funding "may give a boost to Metro Detroit's languishing economy, but could also saddle residents with higher medical costs, according to an industry report funded by the United Auto Workers and Detroit's Big Three automakers," The Detroit News reports...
NPR: Some Primary Care Doctors Remain In Solo Practice published
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:00 PDT
In the first of a three-part series on primary care, NPR reports on doctors who choose to stay in solo practice. "Conventional wisdom is that the age-old model of a single doctor serving patients out of a small office is rapidly going extinct. Doctors need to evolve or die. That means fancy new computerized medical systems and bigger groups to handle the overhead...
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