HealthLeadersMedia | A new rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is expected to make it easier for small and critical access hospitals to use telemedicine to link with physicians and other larger hospitals or academic medical centers. The change will also make it easier...
Diagnostic Imaging | When I tell people I’m a physician, I feel like I’m at risk. Everybody has a medical question or a family member who needs help. I’ve gone from being enthralled by these conversations as an eager medical student to becoming concerned about...
HealthLeadersMedia | Emergency physicians have sounded another warning cry about overcrowding following results from a March survey showing that 80% of their departments have seen increases in visits in the last year. The results refute the prevailing but incorrect assumption that when more people have insurance,...
Diagnostic Imaging | You think your reports are great, but the clinicians you give them to might disagree. Are your words clear and understandable? Are the interpretations better by a radiologist or a specialist? Does the radiologist notice things the referring physician would have missed? Those...
Diagnostic Imaging | There’s a lot of talk about how online records can give doctors a more complete picture of a patient’s condition within a hospital or medical system, while reducing duplicate testing. But what happens when a patient is transferred to another facility? Importing...