Integration & Physician Issues

To understand American healthcare today doesn’t require mastery of CRISPR or mRNA vaccine technology or the latest minimally invasive cardiac procedure — although these are all wonderful and life-changing innovations. Instead, the topic currently guiding much of our understanding is…

The Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine in Pasadena, Calif., has received initial accreditation, having completed the institutional review process. The accreditation review was conducted by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges' Senior College and University Commission.

Physicians should lean more into do-it-yourself medicine education to improve patient care and outcomes amid the physician shortage and long wait times for treatment, said Alexa Kimball, MD, president and CEO of Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess…

The feminization of medicine has accelerated dramatically in the last four decades.

Detroit-based Henry Ford Health is partnering with AHSA to develop internal physician contingent float pools. 

Radiology has the highest per-hour compensation among medical specialties, while primary care has the lowest, a recent American Medical Association survey found.

In March, Arkansas became the sixth state to ban noncompete agreements for physicians.

West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, Ill., is appealing a decision from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education to revoke its residency program accreditation. 

It is a difficult time for primary care. Physicians and advanced practice providers are burning out, their care teams are frustrated and their patients are unhappy with long waits and hurried visits. 

Medscape recently ranked the best and worst states for physicians to practice in by region.