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Healthcare Reform Affects Medicare Patients and the Under 65 Set Differently
How to Answer Questions from Your Patients
If you’re a physician, chances are you have already fielded a bevy of questions from patients about healthcare reform. Rest assured, the questions will keep coming. Experts say that doctors need to be up to speed, and fast, about how reform will affect their patients’ healthcare and their insurance options in the future.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
HEALTHCARE LEADER: Rodney Holmes
Executive Director, MidSouth eHealth Alliance
Commuting weekly from his Birmingham home for nearly four years—a distance of more than 200 miles—in order to shepherd a worthy project reflects commitment with a capital “C.” Rodney Holmes has leveraged his persistent passion for information technology into a master’s degree project, a career, and a Memphis-based alliance of healthcare providers that is gaining increasing respect and recognition.
JUDY OTTO |
Medical Pioneer Jackson Coleman
HEI Recognizes Eye Ultrasound Developer for Worldwide Contribution
When Barrett Haik, MD, left his native New Orleans in 1977 to complete ophthalmology training in New York City, D. Jackson Coleman, MD, took him under his wing.
LYNNE JETER |
MEDICAL ECONOMICS: Characteristics of Top-earning Physicians
Most physicians want to know what top- earning physicians have in common. Last year, the Medical Group Management Association published a report that discussed themes and patterns of the top-earning physicians. To identify the physicians who earn the most, the MGMA looked at the patterns of the upper third (66th percentile) in identifying the top earners.
BILL APPLING |
Medical Mission Workers Save Lives (and Souls)
Ken Nippert believes in living his faith. As the area director of Christian Medical and Dental Associations (CMDA), Nippert conducts two mission trips a year, bringing healthcare services — and the message of Christian discipleship — to people in third-world countries.
JANE SCHNEIDER |
Making the Switch
Providers Face Challenges, Opportunities by Going Paperless
Federal stimulus funds that soon will be available to help medical practices implement electronic medical records offer renewed incentive for making the switch to a "paperless" practice. But the change from traditional charting and record-keeping methods can be daunting for both doctors and office staff.
SERENAH McKAY - 1 opinion posted |
Experts Discuss Impact of Electronic Health Records
At a panel discussion on electronic health records (EHR) and health information exchanges (HIE) held May 27 and sponsored by the Memphis Bioworks Business Association, one of the three panelists said the best way to drive EHR adoption by medical practices is to keep doctors focused on how it would help patients.
SERENAH McKAY |
There’s an App for That!
Medical Applications for Mobile Technology are Burgeoning
With mobile technologies advancing, so too are medical uses of those technologies – and the ride has just begun, predicts one expert.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
| Reimbursements/ACOs Focus |
Stark Reality
Multi-Specialty Practices Anxiously Await MedPac Recommendations for Imaging
Over the past few years, there has been a gradual chipping away of allowed reimbursements for imaging. Tightening Stark regulations have largely been driven by concern over the rising costs of advanced diagnostic imaging and soaring utilization rates.
CINDY SANDERS |
Henry Dalsania, MD
Interventional Radiologist
Had it not been for a spring break ski trip to Breckenridge, Colorado, Henry Dalsania, MD, might never have discovered his passion for snowboarding. Skiing was not a fit. Try as he might, he couldn't get his arms and legs in sync. But snowboarding was a different story. He sensed the way his body needed to move in order to assault the mountain. Thanks to an equal part of determination and grit, he conquered the sport. By week's end, he knew he was hooked.
JANE SCHNEIDER |
8 NEW LAWS PHYSICIANS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
In the last 4 months, there have occurred a number of important changes and developments in both state and federal healthcare laws. This article will highlight 8 of these laws that have the potential immediately to impact physicians and their practices.
Angela Youngberg |
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