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| | | | E-prescribing: Big business, labor, insurers lobby for mandatory e-prescribing bill
May 9, 2008
A bill in Congress that would require doctors to e-prescribe for Medicare patients or else take a pay cut has been endorsed by an impressive list of groups representing patients, employers, and insurers. But only one major physician organization has jumped on the bandwagon. | | E-prescribing: Pharmacies use patients to persuade doctors to throw away Rx pads
May 9, 2008
Maybe you’ve seen the signs at your local pharmacy saying “E-prescriptions filled here” and “Give your prescription a head start” They’re part of a campaign to encourage patients to convert their doctors to electronic prescribing. | | Electronic payment: Nearly three in 10 doctors don't take credit cards
May 9, 2008
Talk about being stuck in the 19th century. Twenty-eight percent of medical practices still don’t accept credit cards, according to a survey by SK&A Information Services. | | EHRs: Does anyone have $105 billion to spare?
May 9, 2008
Cue the drum roll—every last one of the 8.7 million enrollees of Kaiser Permanente finally has an outpatient EHR. It’s the latest milestone of a $4 billion IT project that suggests how much it might cost to digitize the entire nation’s healthcare system. | |
| E-prescribing: Follow the money—and former government officials
May 9, 2008
Remember internist David Brailer, once the point man for EHRs in the Bush administration? He’s now the chairman of a private-equity firm that’s bankrolling a healthcare IT startup with its own cast of ex-public servants. | |
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| | | | | Overhead: Health insurance costs highest for small medical practices
May 16, 2008
Health insurance costs everyone more these days, but mom-and-pop businesses feel the greatest pain, according to a newly released study from the RAND Corporation. | | Online Physician Ratings: Praised—or panned—on Angie's list
May 16, 2008
Angie's List, a website where visitors can read--and write--reviews about service providers, is adding healthcare practitioners to the mix of businesses it holds up to scrutiny. | | Insurers: Switching to concierge practice? Check with third-party payers
May 16, 2008
UnitedHealthcare is dropping four Houston-area physicians from its network for practicing concierge medicine while continuing to bill the insurer for their services. | | Medical Boards: Better doctors, or less enforcement?
May 16, 2008
The number of disciplinary actions taken against doctors has dropped during the past two years, according to the Federation of State Medical Boards. | | Patients: Most haven't prepared an advance healthcare directive
May 16, 2008
More than eight in 10 Pennsylvania residents have failed to prepare an advance healthcare directive that would guide their family, doctors, and other clinicians in an end-of-life situation, according to The Institute for Good Medicine at the Pennsylvania Medical Society. | |
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