McComb-based Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center has cut ties with five of its employed physicians, ending their contracts, according to an Associated Press report via the Anchorage Daily News.
Integration & Physician Issues
A new survey finds physician leaders in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry have more forceful personalities, typical of what you would see in business leaders, while leadership in hospitals tend to be more structured, thoughtful, deliberative and cautious.
A proposal before the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners would prohibit physician assistants with doctoral degrees from using the "Dr." title in clinical settings, according to an NJ Spotlight report.
Healthcare reform is leaving more hospitals in pursuit of physician employment and more physicians in pursuit of salaries, but this mutual interest doesn't signal the end to traditional fee-for-service behaviors, according to a New York Times article.
Chicago-based Presence Medical Group, a part of Presence Health, has added Sage Medical Group, a seven-physician practice, to its network.
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Palliative care practitioners are in short supply: There is one provider for every 1,300 people living with serious or life-threatening illness, compared with one cardiologist for every 71 people experiencing a heart attack.
Thousand Oaks, Calif.-based Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center has partnered with the USC Institute of Urology, bringing one of the institute's physicians to the hospital campus.
Patient-centered interventions by community health workers improved the post-hospital care of patients of low socioeconomic status, including improving access to primary care follow-up appointments and reducing readmission rates, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Privately-insured patients, publicly-insured patients and non-insured patients reported different barriers to access to primary care, according to a study in the American Journal of Medical Quality.
Facilitated discussion groups for physicians at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., improved physician empowerment and reduced depersonalization, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.