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Day 3: For Young Doctors, Hospital Paycheck Trumps Solo Practice
For newly trained physicians Kristin and Brian Gillenwater, mornings are a rush. [...] The Gillenwaters don’t head to their own practices. An independent practice doesn’t hold the same attraction for them as it did for earlier generations of physicians. Independent practice means managing a business and working long, unpredictable hours for what’s become an increasingly less certain income. Read More »
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Doc Pay Method May Deter Shift To Value
Shifting doctors to pay-for-value models will not be simple. A recent report from the American Medical Association looked at proposed payment methods in models such as accountable care organizations, episodic bundles of care and risk-adjusted global budgets, to see how they line up with current approaches for compensation. Read More »
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Docs 'Stressed And Unhappy' About EHRs
While physicians recognize the benefits of electronic health records, they also complain that many systems deployed nowadays are cumbersome to use and often act as obstacles to quality care, according to a new report from RAND Corporation. Read More »
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Doctor Burnout: Nearly Half of Physicians Report Symptoms
A national survey of physicians finds the prevalence of burnout at an "alarming" level, says a study out Monday. Read More »
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Doctors And Hospitals Got At Least $3.5 Billion From Industry In Just Five Months
...Lawsuits in recent years revealed that doctors' relationships with industry can alter their prescribing practices and decision-making for the worse, and pharmaceutical companies have paid out billions of dollars in fines for fraudulent marketing practices...
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Doctors And Patients Are Both Losing in Our Health System
As I advanced through medical school and into my family medicine residency, I was increasingly exposed to the “inner workings” of health care. Behind the scenes I saw much of the doctors’ time spent on issues other than patients’ health. Seemingly, the documentation about what they did took more time that what they actually did.
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Doctors Inc.: Medicine Goes Corporate As More Physicians Join Hospital Payrolls
In unprecedented numbers, America’s doctors — those most entrepreneurial and fiercely independent of professionals — are trading in their autonomy for regular work hours and a hospital paycheck. Read More »
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Doctors Should Give Patients Their Damn Data
There are plenty of books out there to teach us how to boldly and proudly advocate for ourselves in the doctor’s office. Doctors have held the reins too long, goes the story, and ignored what patients want and need. [...] Read More »
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Doctors Should Take Responsibility for Cutting Unnecessary Procedures
The best hope for achieving significant savings in medical costs is through the elimination of unnecessary or duplicative procedures, which waste hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Read More »
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Doctors vs Data
[...] Doctors have been in charge of healthcare for a long time, and have become comfortable, sometimes even arrogant, with their authority and power. But dumb data beats smart doctors every time. Forward thinking doctors are embracing data, with surprising grace and humility. Others are having much more trouble adjusting. Read More »
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Doctors' Dubious Excuses For Taking Pharmaceutical Companies' Money
Pro Publica has updated their database of payments by pharmaceutical payments to physicians and organizations. It now has data from 15 companies totaling more than $2 billion from 2009 to 2012. To accompany Pro Publica's report, a number of news outlets wrote about payments given to local or regional doctors... Read More »
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Does The iPad Actually Facilitate Better Patient Care?
Since Apple unveiled the iPad, the device has been lauded for its promise to enhance the way doctors deliver and patients engage with healthcare. Yet the results of a recent survey may be reason enough for Apple iPad boosters to seek treatment themselves. Read More »
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EHR Adoption Rate Slows, With Physicians Facing Big Hurdles For Meeting Stage 2, Survey Finds
The pace of adoption of electronic health-record systems has begun to slow, and the physicians who have adopted systems have a long way to go to meet the government's Stage 2 criteria for meaningful use of the technology, according to an authoritative survey of practices by the National Center for Health Statistics at HHS. Read More »
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Future of Info-Exchange Standards Debated
The federal Health IT Standards Committee received an abundance of comments along with a report from a work group reviewing a set of 12 specifications for information sharing to be used in the proposed nationwide health information network, or NwHIN. Dr. Read More »
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Getting To The Right Relationship Between Doctors And Drug Companies
The pharmaceutical industry is held in remarkably low esteem right now. It's seen as a bunch of nefarious pushers who pay off vulnerable doctors to prescribe their latest expensive, mediocre product. Physicians who work with pharma companies are considered especially suspect, routinely described as "cozy," "in bed with industry," and "on the take." Read More »
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