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Although most people like to think that the Supreme Court is above playing politics, some healthcare experts see signs that it might be leaning towards trying to gut the national healthcare reform law. An article on UPI.com says that the high court, dominated by a 5-4 conservative majority, has shown evidence of prejudicial behavior. While […]
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‘Tis the season of election campaigning and there is nothing quite so entertaining as watching politicians pensively reconsider their stances on important issues (er, I mean flip-flop). One of the biggest bones of contention in healthcare reform is the so-called individual mandate, seen as Big Brother imposing his socialist grip on freedom-loving Americans. So where […]
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MPT Podcast 32 – The Changing Security Landscape – The How Healthcare is Becoming More of a Target, with guest Mike Meikle of Hawkthorne Group Consulting This Issue (5:30): Why hackers are targeting healthcare and why medical practices should be concerned The impact of data breaches Why medicine is particularly vulnerable Some steps that healthcare […]
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With looming reimbursement cuts a perpetual end-of-year drama, more physicians are foregoing insurance plans altogether and going into the ‘concierge medicine’ business. But as an article on Fierce EMR reports, some are blaming this trend on a growing shortage of physicians. In Vermont, one of a few states considering a single-payer system, the number of […]
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This video from the Texas Medical Association shows us the Medicare reimbursement issue from a child’s perspective. Grandma and the Big Bad SGR! A huge Medicare cut looms for doctors and Medicare patients. Who might that affect? People like grandma – and those who love her, as the child in this video shows. Unless Congress […]
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An article in the Washington Post discusses a rising debate over whether or not reimbursement cuts in Medicare will have a drastic effect on physicians or their patients as many medical advocacy groups are warning. Some prominent healthcare analysts – including some from an independent agency advising Congress – say that the …the problem is […]
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A post on Zocalo Public Square by Ken Murray discusses the issue of how doctors handle terminal illness. Surprisingly, to me anyway, is that most physicians surveyed forego heroic measures in contrast to the advice they typically give their own patients. As I commented on their site, most physicians don’t get enough training in end-of-life […]
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From our partners at Software Advice comes this resource on Medical Billing Software for Macs. Although the vast majority of practices use EMR and practice management systems that run on a Windows platform, increasingly more physicians are opting for software that runs on the Mac OS. They have a comparison of different software systems available. […]
