Integration & Physician Issues

A judge agreed to grant the release Thursday of a Michigan physician who was arrested and jailed by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement Jan. 16 despite having legally lived in the U.S. for more than 40 years, according to M…

Prior to making landfall in Florida last September, Hurricane Irma blew through the Caribbean islands, battering an estimated 1.2 million people with roughly 185 mile-per-hour winds. Medical school students at the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine in…

Option Care Enterprises, Inc., the nation’s largest independent provider of home and alternate site infusion services, is presenting data highlighting the importance of clinical excellence in nutrition support at the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) 2018 Nutrition…

The Ohio Board of Medicine has launched an investigation into a former Cleveland Clinic surgeon who was accused of raping at least two patients while at the institution, according to USA Today.

Investigators are once again looking into former Los Angeles-based Keck School of Medicine of USC Dean Carmen Puliafito, MD, after he reportedly called police last October about a 3-week-old baby who was "not breathing," The Los Angeles Times reports.

Even though we’re only one month into 2018, a quick peek at the headlines reveals some of the key trends that will certainly make their mark on healthcare and health IT this year. The topics aren’t new, but the buzz…

Despite the negativity that seems to be pervading the medical world, when it comes to the daily practice of medicine, it’s important to maintain some perspective.

A U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement official said the agency was alerted to Lukasz Niec, MD, a physician affiliated with Kalamazoo, Mich.-based Bronson Healthcare, because of past child abuse allegations made against him, according to CNN.

Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health System, San Francisco-based Dignity Health and Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine will be among the first 12 hospitals nationwide to pilot Apple's medical records system, The San Diego Union-Tribune reports.

While patients maintain the legal right to informed consent and the option to refuse medical treatment, that right does not include the ability to choose a particular physician to provide treatment, Wall Street Journal reporter Sumathi Reddy claims.