My perception is that doctors in previous generations were more likely to devote their entire lives (professional and “personal” time) to the practice of medicine. Today’s doctors are more likely to consider lifestyle and not automatically put everything into doctoring. This is partly...
A significant portion of the physician market has still not adopted an EHR, despite the lure of government incentives and the fear of the penalties looming on the horizon [...]
It’s hard for policy wonks, politicians or health plans to be viewed credibly when promoting health care cost containment. Discussion quickly turns to “rationing,” and “death panels,” which no one wants to be associated with, and as a result the federal government has done...
I have frequently said that meaningful use is a primary-care program, and I still maintain that it was designed with primary-care physicians and their patients in mind. But I believe that specialists will be the greatest beneficiaries of Stage 2’s [...]
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A front-page Boston Globe article on a neurosurgeon suing a caregiver for a harsh blog post is exciting but unrepresentative of the overall state of online doctor reviews. However it caused me to take another look at online physician ratings from the perspective of someone trying to find a doctor. Conclusion...
The Saturday Evening Post has published a provocative article (How Doctors Die) by retired physician Ken Murray, making a strong case that over-treatment is rampant at the end of life. He describes anecdotes of physicians serenely accepting their death sentences and making the most of their last months...
When I saw the MedPage Today headline, “Study: Docs in dark about complementary therapies” I assumed it meant that doctors didn’t understand these therapies. But the story described patients withholding information about what they were doing from their physicians. That’s not exactly...
You should read Dr. Scott Gottlieb’s (The Doctor Won’t See You Now. He’s Clocked Out) opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal. He argues that ObamaCare is making independent physician practices obsolete by forcing physicians to work for big hospitals as part of Accountable Care Organizations...
Online doctor/patient relationships is the new frontier in social media. A report earlier this year discussed how medical boards would respond to different sorts of potentially inappropriate activity on social media. I asked Jeff Tangney, CEO of a professional online network for physicians called Doximity...
A new study purports to find that primary care physician offices in Ontario discriminate against the poor by being less likely to offer them appointments. I saw an article about the study in the LA Times (Canada’s universal healthcare may not be so universal after all) and was a bit puzzled. Here’s...
The Health Business Blog is on vacation this week. Here’s a rerun of a post that originally appeared a year ago. Health plans have realized for quite some time that the widespread practice of scheduled C-sections and induced labor before the end of 39 weeks of pregnancy is an expensive proposition. Even...
This past Tuesday, President Obama delivered his State of the Union to Congress. While the State of the Union speech always gets a lot buzz from media and the millions of Americans watching from home, another speech captivated our attention and focused...