Integration & Physician Issues

A North Carolina physician is lobbying federal regulators to end corporate practice of medicine, the Citizen Times reported Oct. 30.

The National Practitioner Data Bank has three loopholes that make it possible for physicians to practice in multiple states even after being accused of patient safety issues and incentivize hospitals to not report concerns, the Gothamist reported Oct. 30.

Physicians and advocates are raising concerns about the use of artificial intelligence in medicine due to the lack of regulation and oversight.

Few hospitals or health systems offer clear guidance to help physicians interpret medical exceptions to state abortion laws, The Washington Post reported Oct. 28.

Surgery is the specialty with the highest malpractice lawsuit frequency, while psychiatry has the lowest, a Medscape report found.

OB-GYN is the specialty with the highest percentage of female physicians while orthopedics has the lowest, a Medscape report found.

As we enter the mid-2020s, we find ourselves at a crossroads. Artificial intelligence is becoming more and more common, and its abilities are expanding at an exciting (or alarming, depending upon your point of view) rate. Soon, we will turn…

Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, American Medical Association president, outlined a potential five-step solution to the physician shortage crisis in a speech to the National Press Club on Oct. 25.

The emergency department at AdventHealth East Orlando developed a patient intake technique to streamline care and ensure patients are seen more quickly, which is now being used across the health system's eight hospital-based emergency departments, according to an Oct. 25…

Female physicians indicated that long hours at work and rules and regulations were the two most challenging parts of the job, a Medscape report found.