Integration & Physician Issues

Wayland, Mass.-based MedFirst Partners announced the opening of Marblehead, Mass.-based Gold Direct Care, one of the first direct primary care practices in Massachusetts, according to Marketwired.

Since 2010, the number of physicians who report they support physician-assisted suicide has grown from 46 percent to 54 percent, according to the Medscape Ethics Report 2014, Part 1: Life, Death and Pain that surveyed more than 17,000 American physicians.

University of Texas plans to launch two new medical schools in 2016 with curricula based on innovations from AMA's Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative.

The Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute flunked 40 states and Washington, D.C., and gave four states a "D" in providing objective, publically accessible information on physician quality, based on a recent study.

Boston-based Physicians Foundation released its 2014 Watch List of five issues projected to impact physicians and patients next year, based on its Biennial Physician Survey.

Hospitals and other healthcare providers are more confident about their economic stability, experiencing improved financial performance and increased employment, according to a survey from GE Capital.

Hospitals and physician practices have begun implementing new value-based models of reimbursement as mechanisms to increase physician engagement in healthcare reform and care quality, but there is currently limited participation in these new models, according to a study recently published…

The following medical specialties account for 85 percent of all female residents.

If you ask any patient, the "patient experience" truly begins before he or she even steps foot inside a hospital. Rather, the experience starts with the patient's search — increasingly online — for the appropriate physician to treat his or…

Physician participation in torture and coercive interrogation tactics violates core ethical values, according to Robert Wah, MD, the president of the American Medical Association.