Physicians are often stereotypically depicted as pillars of health, superheroes able to respond to emergencies at a moment's notice or even miracle workers, but a growing movement of healthcare professionals with disabilities is challenging this script, according to NPR.  By Harrison Cook - 8/7/18

Clinician burnout has been an issue for years, and is a complex, systemic problem. Evidence tells us that it decreases the quality of care and damages the patient experience. Fixing it will take more than just improving the electronic health record (EHR).  By Dr. Jen Bolduc, Allscripts - 8/7/18

Henry Ford Health System embarked on its first "direct to employer" healthcare contract with General Motors to provide care and wellness services to more than 24,000 salaried GM employees and their families, the Detroit-based health system announced Aug. 6.  By Alyssa Rege - 8/7/18

All parents have experienced the pain of filling out form after form in the pediatrician’s office – usually while trying to comfort their sick child or keep an eye on their other children.   By Jennifer Bolduc MD, Allscripts - 7/31/18

Despite widespread conversations on physicians experiencing burnout, these providers often face an unrecognized threat to their well-being — moral injury, Simon Talbot, MD, a reconstructive plastic surgeon at Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Wendy Dean*, MD, a psychiatrist and senior medical officer at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, write in a STAT op-ed.  By Megan Knowles - 7/30/18

  With California's Carr wildfire burning just miles away and no homes to go back to, eight physicians and healthcare workers reported for their shifts at Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding, the Sacramento Bee reported.  By Emily Rappleye - 7/30/18

A new smartphone app will alert patients in California about changes to their physicians' licensing status — whether that means a change of address or an incident of misconduct.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 7/27/18

Milwaukee-based Children's Hospital of Wisconsin hospitalists and neonatologists will staff Racine, Wis.-based Ascension All Saints Hospital's pediatric and neonatal intensive care units under a new contract, according to a Journal Sentinel report.  By Morgan Haefner - 7/26/18

There are about one million doctors in the U.S. today.  By K. Cody Patel - 7/26/18

Fort Myers (Fla.) based Gulf Coast Medical Center on July 25 suspended all kidney transplants until early December due to a lack of available transplant surgeons, according to Fort Myers News-Press.  By Harrison Cook - 7/26/18

As Allscripts employees, we bring our own experiences as patients – and for many of us, as clinicians – to our work.  By Kim South, RN, Allscripts - 7/25/18

Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore offers the best clinical training in internal medicine, according to Doximity's 2018-2019 Residency Navigator.  By Kelly Gooch - 7/25/18

In a recent blog post, The Greeley Company discusses "laundry list" privileging, OPPE and FPPE.   By Staff - 7/24/18

Although 23 percent of residents have no medical school debt, the same percentage has to pay back debt of more than $300,000, according to Medscape's Residents Salary & Debt Report.  By Megan Knowles - 7/19/18

The University of Pennsylvania in Philidalphia is adding a course in empathy, service and homelessness to medical students' curriculum, according to U.S. News & World Report.  By Harrison Cook - 7/18/18

Alan S. Rabson, MD, a lead figurehead in defining the field of cancer pathology and head administration of the National Cancer Institute, died July 4 at age 92 due to complications of vascular disease, according to The New York Times.  By Harrison Cook - 7/18/18

Milton Thomas Edgerton Jr., MD, a renowned plastic surgeon who pioneered multiple breakthrough procedures in plastic surgery, died at age 96, according to The Washington Post.  By Harrison Cook - 7/18/18

Many of the physician practices that health systems seek to acquire are owned by physicians who are not particularly interested in selling their practices.  By Karin Chernoff Kaplan, Denise Palencik and Jessica E. Stack - Veralon - 7/17/18

Heart disease and cancer are the leading causes of death in the United States, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But there's reason for optimism in the fight against chronic diseases like these.  By Dr. G. Richard Olds - 7/17/18

A recent blog post by Jennifer Bolduc, MD, of Allscripts discusses what one Allscripts practice is doing to maximize the time patients and providers spend together during a medical office visit.  By Staff - 7/17/18