HealthLeadersMedia | If there's an opposite of a smartphone, my dumb phone would be it. It's a flip phone without a screen on the outside, without a camera, and without a hint of modernity. As time goes on, I am feeling the pressure to upgrade in...
HealthLeadersMedia | Physicians are becoming savvy at negotiating employment contracts. Signing bonuses, paid relocation packages, and even loan forgiveness packages are not unheard of. Median first-year guaranteed compensation was nearly $20,000 higher for specialty-care physicians in multispecialty practices than in single-specialty practices, according to the Medical...
AuntMinnie.com | In this posthealthcare reform era, there's a fusion of medical economics, quality and safety measures, and a challenging reimbursement reality that may or may not improve patient care or access to imaging, according to a presentation given last week at the Society of...
HealthLeadersMedia | If newly diagnosed heart disease patients who must undergo treatment are optimistic, and expect they'll resume normal activities, do they actually do better than if they're pessimistic about the outcome? Reporting on their 15-year study in this week's Archives of Internal Medicine, Duke University Medical...
HealthLeadersMedia | Patients are not used to hearing the word no from their hospital or physician. But they will have to start getting used to it. When the discussion takes place about the need for expensive tests or procedures that perhaps don’t follow evidence-based guidelines,...