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Working From Home: Doctors’ Options Are Not Limited to Classic Telemedicine
Remote patient monitoring, management of NPs and PAs and on-call phone consults are a few options of home-based roles.
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Are You Ready for AI to Be a Better Doctor Than You?
Several recent examples of AI-backed diagnoses have bested doctors’ accuracy in diagnoses, and many clinicians have expressed concern.
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EHR Copy and Paste Can Get Physicians Into Trouble
Physicians have lost hospital privileges and paid fines for copying and pasting information into EHRs, say sources.
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Medicine or Politics? Doctors Defend Their Social Activism
Many physicians are not only willing to stand up for what they believe in, but they see it as an essential part of their profession.
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Congress Directly Provides $10 Million for Arthritis Research for First Time
This is the first stand-alone arthritis research program under the Department of Defenses’ Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs.
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Why Do So Many Doctors Embrace Superstitions and Rituals?
“Rituals and superstitions are an acknowledgment that forces external to ourselves exist.”
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Hospitals Cash In on a Private Equity-Backed Trend: Concierge Physician Care
Membership fee-based care could potentially limit access to doctors, but also allow for better recruitment, say experts.
From the Journals
Physicians Received $12 Billion from Drug, Device Makers in Less Than 10 Years
Industry payments appeared to have been little changed by public reporting in the Open Payments database.
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Time Is Money: Should Physicians Be Compensated for EHR Engagement?
“I think it’s reasonable to consider it being reimbursed because we’re taking our time and effort and making decisions to help the patient.”
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Time Is Money: Should Physicians Be Compensated for EHR Engagement?
Doctors manage EHRs and communicate with patients daily, efforts which increase efficiency and patient satisfaction, yet are often unpaid.
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Meditating in the Mundane
Much as I'd like to think I'm on trend, I don't believe self-improvement in the mundane will catch fire like taking magnesium or Wim Hof breathing...