The healthcare industry needs to address physician suicides and burnout, according to Edward Ellison, MD, executive medical director and chairman of Southern California Permanente Medical Group, based in Pasadena.
Integration & Physician Issues
Drexel University and Tower Health took initial steps to merge their physician groups, deepening ties between the two Pennsylvania health systems, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Forty-three percent of final-year medical residents said they would prefer being employed by a hospital over any other practice option, according to a survey from healthcare consulting firm Merritt Hawkins.
As the number of individuals with chronic conditions rises and consumer expectations continue to change, leaders are challenged to rethink how they impact population health and the patient experience. Precision medicine may provide a helpful framework.
Twenty percent of gastroenterologists and 19 percent of dermatologists report a net worth of more than $5 million, according to Medscape's 2019 Physician Wealth and Debt Report.
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Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) across the United States turn to The Delaware Health Net (DHN) to improve overall clinical results.
The American Medical Association rolled out a digital continuing education portal for physicians and other clinicians, designed to reduce the administrative work associated with earning and reporting continuing medical education credits.
Health systems often obstruct patients from following physicians to a new practice or health system, and that's bad for patients, wrote Paul Levy, former CEO of Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in an op-ed for CommonWealth magazine.
At least eight physicians are resigning from Bangor-based Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center, and physicians from several departments warned that more physicians could leave if changes aren't made, according to the Bangor Daily News.
A recent blog post by TeamHealth dives into the "why" behind clinicians and health systems recognizing the impact of patient's mental health conditions.