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The Next Generation of Healthcare
Marian Levy has a simple goal for her newest project. Twenty years from now, she hopes kids will snack on fruit while they play video games, and then willingly turn off the machine to go outside and play.
Levy is a public health specialist and director of a new master’s degree program in public health at the University of Memphis.
SCOTT SHEPARD |
Physician Non-Competes Validated by New Law
Should I stay or should I go? That is the question many physicians and other healthcare providers might be asking themselves after hearing about a new law just passed in Tennessee, which validates certain non-competition covenants with physicians and other healthcare providers. While the new law does not take effect until Jan. 1, 2008, its impact likely will be felt immediately by healthcare providers and those who employ or contract with them.
WALTER E. SCHULER |
Improving Your Financial Health
It’s always a good time to get in better shape — both physically and fiscally.
Let’s start with the big picture.
Step One: Values Clarity
Roy Disney once said, “When your values are clear, your decisions are easy.” ...
GREGORY LUKEN |
Do the Math: Is It Time to Opt Out of Health Insurance Plans?
Many physicians are questioning the value of participation in health insurance plans. According to the Sixth Annual Fee Schedule Survey conducted among doctors nationwide by Physicians Practice Management Journal (January 2007), reimbursement by health insurance companies is less than ever. The findings indicate that reimbursement for medical E&M (evaluation and management) services decreased 10 percent nationally from 2005 to 2006. In many states — including Tennessee — Medicare is now the better payer compared to commercial payers, which often base rates either slightly above or 10 to 20 percent below Medicare.
SARA S. LANKFORD, CPA, AND LUCY R. CARTER, CPA |
Grand Rounds August
David L. Maness, DO, MSS, FAAFP Named Chairman, Department of Family Medicine College of Medicine, Memphis a University of Tennessee Health Science Center Campus
Steve J. Schwab, MD, executive dean of the College of Medicine for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has announced the appointment of David L. Maness, DO, MSS, FAAFP, as chairman for the Department of Family Medicine. The department is in the College of Medicine, Memphis, one of three College of Medicine campuses that are part of the UT Health Science Center.
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IT That Actually Works
For 20 years, information technology was a hole where physicians shoveled their money, only to be disappointed with the results. That’s the backdrop Steve Clark must work against.
Clark is CEO of Informed Medical Networks, which has spent five years developing an electronic medical records system around the needs of physicians.
SCOTT SHEPARD |
Mays and Schnapp Provide Comprehensive Pain Management Care
By the time most patients reach the Mays and Schnapp Pain Clinic and Rehabilitation Center, they have already seen multiple specialists and undergone numerous treatments. It’s unbearable enough to suffer from pain, but becoming discouraged after getting passed around for extensive exploration, all of which fails to provide relief, is the most debilitating.
HOLLI W. HAYNIE |
Methodist’s Giant Leap into HIT
The Institute of Medicine and the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics identified health information technology (HIT) has one of the most powerful tools for reducing medical errors, lowering health costs, and improving the quality of care in physician practices.
GLORIA BUTLER BALDWIN |
Physician Spotlight: Dr. George Flinn Jr.
When staff at the Memphis Zoo called in radiologist Dr. George S. Flinn Jr. to begin ultrasound scans on their latest pregnant creature, it was clear this exam would be different.
In the first place, he understood that caring for one of the world’s rarest mammals through a highly anticipated pregnancy would be like taking part in history. But in the second place, unlike with his other zoo patients, there were no plans to put Ya Ya the panda under anesthesia while he worked on her.
LUCY SCHULTZE |
The Psychological Aspects of Pain
For someone in pain, the old doctor’s adage “take two aspirin and call me in the morning” just doesn’t cut it. Acute pain is bad enough, but having to live with chronic pain whether through a debilitating illness or more deadly disease becomes a life force all its own.
GLORIA BUTLER BALDWIN |
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