Roughly 100 medical students from the UC Davis School of Medicine staged a "die-in" protest April 17 at the Sacramento, Calif.-based institution to draw attention to the public health component of police violence, according to The Sacramento Bee.
Integration & Physician Issues
Fredericksburg, Va.-based Pratt Medical Group is in the midst of splitting from Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Healthcare, which integrated in July 2015, according to fredericksburg.com.
Two physicians affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at UC Los Angeles argued repealing net neutrality may harm medical education in an April 11 op-ed for JAMA.
The dreaded “no-show” – when a patient does not come to a scheduled appointment.
Hospitals and health systems must increasingly learn how to handle cost pressures and widespread industry consolidation, and harness those trends into a profitable management strategy to keep their institution firmly grounded and better able to serve patients.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered the relocation of a controversial Civil War-era physician's statue out of Central Park April 16, according to CBS New York.
Norman Sharpless, MD, director of the National Cancer Institute, said the medical industry must learn how to use basic science to treat cancer and be open to incorporating big data into treatment plans, according to The Washington Post.
Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health will bear the full cost of operating its joint medical school with South Orange, N.J.-based Seton Hall University, which is scheduled to open in July, according to nj.com.
Effective January 1, 2018, total knee arthroplasty (TKA) was removed from the Inpatient Only List (IPO) and assigned an Ambulatory Payment Classification (APC) payment. The removal from the IPO allows the procedure to be paid as outpatient, but it still…
Often discussed and lamented, physician burnout is an unrelenting problem in the healthcare industry that can affect patient care quality, patient experience, and the bottom line for healthcare organizations and physician practices.