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29 Jul 2010 at 3:00am
Errors in diagnosis place a heavy financial burden on an already costly health care system and can be devastating for affected patients. Strengthening certain aspects of a new and evolving model of comprehensive and coordinated primary care could potentially address this highly relevant, but underemphasized safety concern, say Mark Graber, M.D...
28 Jul 2010 at 7:00am
Medical Liability Bill Key To Health Reform Roll Call Repealing ObamaCare and reforming our health care system in a responsible manner continues to be our primary goal - a goal that our constituents sent us here to achieve. Thus, we remain committed to passing comprehensive medical liability reform as part of the solution...
28 Jul 2010 at 7:00am
Commenting on the publication of GP patient survey results, Dr Andrew Buist, Deputy Chairman of the BMA's Scottish General Practitioners Committee: "These results are testimony to the hard work of GPs and their practice teams across Scotland. For the 90 per cent of patients that rate their care as good or excellent, we must ensure that our standards do not slip...
28 Jul 2010 at 6:00am
The pharmaceutical industry trade group PhRMA said Monday that the Food and Drug Administration should do a better job of explaining additional safeguards it mandates against certain drugs when it issues warnings, Reuters reports...
28 Jul 2010 at 6:00am
Health care industry players are still sorting out the latest regulations on an up-to-$36 billion federal program to encourage doctors and hospitals to use electronic medical records...
28 Jul 2010 at 6:00am
African leaders focused on the theme of the 15th African Union (AU) Summit on Sunday: maternal and infant mortality on the continent, PANA/Afrique en ligne reports (7/26). Leaders expressed concern that women continue to face health challenges that are easily treatable, according to Daily Nation/allAfrica.com...
28 Jul 2010 at 3:00am
GP commissioners and PCTs should get their GP consortia up and running as soon as possible, urges Dr Dixon, chairman of the NHS Alliance. Dr Dixon will be talking at the NHS Alliance/APEX North East PBC Regional Event, which will address 180 future GP commissioning leaders in the North East, including GPs, practice managers, PBC leads, cluster managers, LMC members and PCT managers...
27 Jul 2010 at 7:00am
British officials are proposing a plan to decentralize the National Health Service, news outlets report. "The new organization, which the government says will focus on patients, will transfer the bulk of Britain's $160 billion health care budget to general practitioners," The Fiscal Times reports...
27 Jul 2010 at 6:00am
"Federal prosecutors have dropped charges against a doctor from the Philippines who went into hiding after being accused of scamming a military health program out of more than $1 million in the 1990s," The Associated Press reports. "The U.S. Attorney's office for the Western District of Wisconsin moved to drop a fraud indictment against Dr...
27 Jul 2010 at 6:00am
US physicians are often poor judges of their patients' health beliefs, according to a new study by Dr. Richard Street from Texas A & M University and Paul Haidet from The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, USA. However, physicians' understanding is better the more patients are involved by asking questions, expressing concerns, and stating their beliefs and preferences for care...
27 Jul 2010 at 5:00am
The Boston Globe: Despite being home to the largest number of doctors per person, finding a primary care physician has been getting more difficult for Massachusetts residents since 2006, according a report released by the state...
27 Jul 2010 at 5:00am
The Hill: A bill aimed to appeal to physicians to work in medically underserved areas by shielding them from paying for malpractice coverage is facing stiff opposition...
26 Jul 2010 at 4:00am
Annals of Family Medicine: Physician Satisfaction With Chronic Care Processes: A Cluster-Randomized Trial Of Guided Care - The authors randomly assigned teams of physicians and their chronically ill older patients into groups that either provided Guided Care - an educated registered nurse works with a primary care practice team to enhance quality of care - or usual care...
26 Jul 2010 at 3:00am
The Wall Street Journal: "To cut medical-malpractice costs, five New York City hospitals have agreed to a pilot program to divulge medical mistakes early, offer settlements quickly and use special state 'health courts,' where judges will help negotiate agreements before cases go to trial. The program, funded for three years with $3 million from the federal government, aims to cut the $1...
26 Jul 2010 at 3:00am
Raising Doctors To Treat Children The New York Times In the long list of problems affecting the American health care system, the shortage of general practitioners and overabundance of specialists is usually ranked near the top. There is truth to this: only 32 percent of physicians practice primary care medicine...
