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'Miserable' Doctors Prescribe A Different Career

Celeste Headlee | NPR | April 17, 2014

A lot of children grow up wanting to be doctors, but now some physicians are discouraging others from joining the profession. What has changed over the years?

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1 In 10 Doctor Practices Flee Medicare To Concierge Medicine

Bruce Japsen | Forbes | January 30, 2013

As Medicare whacks away at what doctors are paid and health insurers move away from paying fees for service to bundled payments, more physicians who own their own practices will start direct pay or concierge medicine in the next one to three years. Read More »

A Burnout Fix: Occupational Health

Maureen Miller | The Atlantic | July 2, 2013

In the midst of the doctor shortage and burnout epidemic, occupational medicine is the best-kept secret in U.S. health care. Read More »

A Day In The Life Of A Primary Care Doctor

Candice Chen | Washington Monthly | July 1, 2013

A harried pediatrician tells her story. Read More »

Alaska Telehealth Bill Would Allow Phone, Online Prescribing Visits

Joseph Conn | Modern Healthcare | May 7, 2014

Alaska may soon allow physicians to write prescriptions for many medications without an initial face-to-face encounter between the prescriber and the patient. A bill to allow the remote prescribing process passed on the final day of the state legislative session April 25 and is awaiting the signature of Alaska Republican Gov. Sean Parnell...

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Better Coordination Of Care Could Save $1.5 Billion Annually

Tracey Walker | Managed Healthcare Executive | May 1, 2014

Improving the coordination of care for elderly patients with chronic diseases reduces costs, use of health services and complications, according to a new RAND Corporation study published online in JAMA Internal Medicine.  

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Family Medicine Comes Out On Top In Osteopathic Match

Sheri Porter | American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) | February 26, 2014

More osteopathic physicians matched to family medicine than any other medical specialty in the recently completed American Osteopathic Association (AOA) Intern/Resident Registration Program, which matches graduating osteopathic physicians with residency programs nationwide. Read More »

Future Osteopathic Physicians Dedicated To Providing Primary Care As Family Medicine Remains Largest Matched Specialty

Press Release | American Osteopathic Association (AOA) | February 10, 2014

Between aging baby boomers requiring more medical attention for chronic conditions and millions of Americans gaining access to medical care under the Affordable Care Act, the country’s need for primary care physicians has never been greater. The osteopathic medical profession is doing its part to meet this need as the majority of osteopathic medical students and recent graduates matched into primary care residency programs [...]. Read More »

HHS Offers $665M To Spark Innovation

Bernie Monegain | Healthcare IT News | December 17, 2014

The government has divvied up more than $665 million to states for designing and testing ways to improve healthcare quality, accessibility and affordability. The awards will go to 28 states, three territories and the District of Columbia...

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IT Part Of Big Change Coming To Nursing

Staff Writer | Healthcare IT News | March 20, 2014

The nursing profession is facing multiple challenges in the years ahead. From the Affordable Care Act and its focus on the introduction of electronic medical records, to the aging U.S. population, nurses are in for major change.

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Majority Of Surveyed Docs Using Mobile Devices In Practices

Joseph Conn | ModernHealthcare.com | July 23, 2013

Mobile computing devices are becoming almost as much of an essential tool in U.S. physician practices as the exam table, according to a new survey. Read More »

On the Road to Retail Health: HealthcareDIY and Primary Care, Everywhere

Jane Sarasohn-Kahn | Health Populi | January 25, 2012

Signs of retail health are all around us, popping up as the primary care shortage/maldistribution drives pent-up demand among consumers for accessible, convenient, well-priced quality services and products. This is HealthcareDIY. 52% of U.S. Read More »

The Association Of American Medical Colleges Responds To Phillip Longman’s “First Teach No Harm”

Atul Grover | Washington Monthly | July 3, 2013

The AAMC is very disappointed that Mr. Longman did not contact the AAMC for information or comment when he was writing his article. We are writing to clarify a number of important points that his article fails to reflect. Read More »

The United States Is Worse In Access, Affordability And Insurance Complexity

Cathy Schoen, Robin Osborn, David Squires, and Michelle M. Doty | Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) | November 13, 2013

The United States is in the midst of the most sweeping health insurance expansions and market reforms since the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. Our 2013 survey of the general population in eleven countries [...] found that US adults were significantly more likely than their counterparts in other countries to forgo care because of cost, to have difficulty paying for care even when insured, and to encounter time-consuming insurance complexity. Read More »

Universal Healthcare Doesn't Mean Waiting Longer to See A Doctor

Olga Khazan | The Atlantic | November 19, 2013

A new report from the Commonwealth Fund shows that people in other industrialized nations get doctors' appointments faster than Americans do. Read More »