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Most group practices are still using paper medical records and charts, according to preliminary results from a survey by the Medical Group Management Association. 'Paper is still the dominant mode [...]

Catalisse Inc. offers an outsourced medical billing service that includes charge entry and payment posting, electronic billing and paper claims, secondary submissions, patient bills generation, follow-up with payers including appeals, [...]

PRACTICING self-management techniques can help with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) as much as taking medications, according to a new systematic review and meta-analysis. The researchers reviewed the literature and [...]

Since the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in February of 2009, there has been a tremendous amount of discussion about the idea [...]

Saying that the Food and Drug Administration is chronically underfunded and unable to tackle all of the tasks that it is charged with, the American College of Physicians has issued [...]

BOSTON -- 'E-prescribing saves lives, it saves money, and it's time we implement it,' according to Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt. Streamlining the bloated health care system 'is [...]

A lot has been written recently about the patient-centered medical home. As we consider how best to implement this concept in our practices, there are a few things we can [...]

PHIL ADELPHIA -- Officials at the American College of Physicians are proposing major changes in the way general internists practice, get paid, and are trained. These changes are crucial to [...]

WASHINGTON -- The medical home, a model for financing and delivering care that has long been endorsed by other primary care organizations, is a key part of the American College [...]

In March, a college student with known congenital heart disease died while mountain biking in Utah. The tragedy was compounded by the fact that an implanted defibrillator, which should have [...]

The recent disaster along the Gulf coast may be a wake up call for all physicians to establish some kind of emergency backup system for their businesses. "Physicians don't always [...]

The use of comparative effectiveness research would give Medicare a sophisticated tool for making coverage decisions on the basis of quality, but the federal health program's ability to use such [...]

The failure of EHR implementations is often due to productivity loss, and nothing is more detrimental to productivity than discouraged employees. Before taking the giant leap, it is critical to [...]

TORONTO--For electronic health records to have real value, physicians need to use them to improve quality, and not just to improve documentation and coding. That's the message the American College [...]

Policymakers at the state and federal level should remove regulatory barriers that make it difficult for nurse practitioners and physician assistants to serve as primary care providers and lead primary [...]

DENVER -- Incorrect patient identification information is still the No. 1 reason for rejected insurance claims, and the majority of these errors--which cost the nation an estimated $2.2 billion in [...]

If you have been thinking of taking the plunge into using an electronic health record, you've undoubtedly wondered how the change will affect office productivity. After all, the process of [...]

As a child growing up in Toledo, Ohio, Dr. Stanford T. Shulman became fascinated with collecting postage stamps because they combined his interest in history and geography. 'One of the [...]

CHICAGO -- Although Hispanics are grossly underrepresented in heart failure trials, emerging evidence suggests they have unique risk factors and heart failure outcomes that should be taken into clinical consideration. [...]

Dr. Kevin E. Hunt was taking premed classes at Loyola University in Chicago when he met Father Samuel Okori, who was serving as a priest in Dr. Hunt's parish. The [...]

Leaders at the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Family Physicians say they welcome the American College of Emergency Physicians' recent statement supporting the concept of a [...]

African American physicians are looking for action to back up the words of apology recently tendered by the American Medical Association for more than a century of racial inequity and [...]

The Food and Drug Administration is so bogged down by increased responsibilities, understaffing, and a minuscule budget that it can't do anything, except commission a report about how it can't [...]

Strong evidence supports the laparoscopic approach. Evidence from randomized trials of open vs. laparoscopic cholecystectomy has clearly demonstrated less impairment and more rapid recovery of pulmonary function after laparoscopy. These [...]

Rather than spend a large sum of money on a prepackaged electronic medical record system, Dr. L. Allen Kindman decided to construct his own path to a paperless practice by [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is seeking to promote health care price and quality transparency through its new Value-Driven Health Care Initiative. The initiative, which will certify and support regional [...]

WASHINGTON -- A growing number of small medical practices are turning to electronic health records to help the office run more smoothly, but few of these practices are using them [...]

WASHINGTON -- From a liability perspective, health information technology remains a double-edged sword whose parameters still need to be spelled out, experts maintained at a meeting sponsored by eHealth Initiative [...]

How would you like to reduce your practice's patient data research load by 12 hours a week? That's precisely what Dr. Alan Brush did for his multi-specialty practice in Cambridge, [...]

Starting next month, physicians will have an alternative to billing for Medicare Part B drugs under the average sales price system. Officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Electronic health records have been proposed as a way to reduce medical errors, but their design can contribute to errors as well, Melonie Nance, M.D., said at [...]

HONOLULU -- The possibility that an earlier start for colorectal cancer screening is warranted in selected major patient subgroups--most notably African Americans, diabetics, and women smokers--was a recurrent theme at [...]

From safety concerns to the problem of well-meaning but excess emergency personnel, lessons are emerging in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath that should reshape how emergency medicine and disaster management systems respond [...]

CHICAGO -- The American Osteopathic Association's House of Delegates at its annual meeting agreed to keep a controversial combined osteopathic/allopathic resident match proposal on life support for 1 more year, [...]

MAUI, HAWAII -- The American Academy of Dermatology and other professional groups maintain that insufficient evidence exists to justify the Food and Drug Administration's announcement that it will add a [...]

The U.K. proposal to withdraw four antidementia drugs from the national formulary is fueling debate over the drugs' real clinical effectiveness, with some critics claiming that drug companies exaggerated the [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Nonphysician staff in 10 primary care clinics initially were leery of giving patients the ability to e-mail their clinics, but they became more enthusiastic 6 months after [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Adopting an electronic health records system reduced the mean length of visits at five outpatient clinics by 4 minutes per patient, a difference that was not statistically [...]

WASHINGTON -- Physicians and consumers appear divided on their health care priorities for 2005, according to polls released at a forum sponsored by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- The same kind of big and bold actions that created Medicare in the 1960s are needed today to fix it, Betsy W. Beckwith said at a joint [...]

The administrative complexity of the payment system is a lose-lose proposition for all participants. It's costly, duplicative, and it needs to be simplified. Multiple credentialing, multiple clinical guidelines, multiple billing [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Medicine is not a business. It follows a higher standard, and physicians must choose between high-quality medicine and profits. Right? Wrong. Physicians can offer high-quality medicine and [...]