Integration & Physician Issues

As public health experts and political leaders construct off-ramps from the highly regulated highway of COVID-19 safety measures, many physicians are encouraging just as much effort toward on-ramps to guide public health measures when the virus picks up again.

The District of Columbia has the most physicians per 100,000 capita in the country, while Utah has the fewest, according to Kaiser Family Foundation data published Feb. 7.

There are currently 1,061,141 active physicians in the U.S., according to data published by Kaiser Family Foundation Feb. 7.

The national association representing 170,000 physicians will welcome Susan Dentzer as its president and CEO in March.

A Pennsylvania physician accused of prescribing ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to treat and prevent COVID-19 has been terminated from Tower Health, PennLive reported Feb. 4.

HHS is making $19.2 million available to support and expand training of primary care physician and dental residents in rural and underserved areas.

Physicians are more stressed and burned out then ever before - and administrative burdens are a big contributing factor. Healthcare organizations can alleviate some of this stress with the help of AI technology.

Medical boards have penalized eight physicians for furthering COVID-19, vaccine and therapeutic misinformation since January 2021, Politico reports. 

Hospitals have resorted to creating their own lottery systems to allocate a scarce supply of COVID-19 antibody treatments for immunocompromised patients, NPR reported Jan. 25.  

The extracorporeal membrane oxygenation team at Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Hospital is the recipient of the North Carolina Healthcare Association's Healthcare Hero Award, the hospital said Jan. 24.