Clinician burnout is one of the greatest challenges facing the healthcare industry today, but applying human-centered design to clinical IT experiences may be able to reduce that burnout.
Integration & Physician Issues
First-year medical school enrollment has increased 29 percent since the 2002-03 school year, according to a recent report released by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Los Angeles-based University of Southern California is under fire for failing to report George Tyndall, MD, a gynecologist at the university's health center, to the state's medical board after receiving scores of complaints from current and former students claiming he…
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Kennett, Mo.-based Twin Rivers Regional Medical Center, which is set to close June 30, has health professionals in the area scrambling to provide care to local residents, according to KASU.
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Bugs in Pennsylvania's new electronic physician licensing system have officials at some of the state's biggest hospitals worried about potential staffing shortages come July 1, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Not so long ago, physician charts were much simpler. For example, in the photo below my husband is holding his entire pediatric medical record:
The potential end to Detroit Medical Center and Troy, Mich.-based Wayne State University Physician Group's 100-year partnership may violate the terms of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare's 2013 agreement to purchase DMC's parent company, according to The Detroit News.
Charlotte, N.C.-based Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants filed a temporary restraining order and injunction against Charlotte-based Atrium Health and its new anesthesiology provider in North Carolina Business Court May 11, claiming the health system and its new provider are attempting to recruit…
While the average physician's salary amounts to roughly $299,000, specialty physicians make $30,000 more per year, on average, according to a recent report by Medscape.