Posted on March 31, 2010 by Editors
May Be Based on Misleading Profiles – According to Rand Study By Staff Reporters It is increasingly common for insurance plans to encourage patients to receive care from physicians who keep medical costs lower. However, this ethos may be based on unreliable estimates of doctor performance and may not achieve the intended savings, according to [...]
Filed under: "Doctors Only", Career Development, Health Economics, Managed Care, Practice Management | Tagged: DOM, Dr. Ateev Mehrotra, Elizabeth McGlynn, Health Economics, J. William Thomas, Rand, USDOL | 2 Comments »
Posted on March 30, 2010 by Editors
In Wake of Congressional Inquiries By Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica – January 22, 2010 5:56 pm EDT Dr. Howard Frumkin, the embattled director of a little-known but important division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been reassigned to a position with less authority, a smaller staff and a lower budget. Agency for Toxic [...]
Filed under: Ethics, Healh Law & Policy, Quality Initiatives, Risk Management | Tagged: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, ATSDR, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Christopher De Rosa, Dr. Howard Frumkin, Dr. Thomas Frieden, Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, formaldehyde-contaminated trailers, Henry Falk, House Science and Technology Committee, Joaquin Sapien, National Center for Environmental Health, ProPublica | 1 Comment »
Posted on March 29, 2010 by Editors
What it is – How it works By Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA, CMP™ [Publisher-in-Chief] Covestor, with offices in New York and London, is a web platform started by entrepreneurs Perry Blancher, Richard Tachta and Simon Veingard http://www.covestor.com. Their belief was that salaried mutual fund managers have no monopoly on investment talent and shouldn’t have [...]
Filed under: "Ask-an-Advisor", Breaking News, Career Development, CMP Program, Ethics, Information Technology, Investing, Practice Management | Tagged: certified financial planner, CFP, CMP, covestor, Covestor Investment Management, ERISA, FINRA, NASD, Perry Blancher, RIA, Richard Tachta, SEC, Simon Veingard, www.CertifiedMedicalPlanner | 2 Comments »
Posted on March 28, 2010 by Editors
Another Troubling Insurance Story By Marian Wang, ProPublica – March 17, 2010 2:03 pm EDT Reuters filed a stunning report [1] recently about a health insurance company that targeted policyholders with HIV to drop their coverage. It opens with the case of Jerome Mitchell: Patient Jerome Mitchell Previously undisclosed records from Mitchell’s case reveal that [...]
Filed under: Ethics, Health Insurance, Industry Indignation Index | Tagged: Anthem Blue Cross, Assurant Health, Blue Shield of California, Fortis, Health Insurance, Health Net, HIV, Jerome Mitchell, Kaiser Permanente, Marian Wang, PacifiCare, rescission | 5 Comments »
Posted on March 27, 2010 by Editors
Donations, Advertisements, Classifieds and Sponsorships Appreciated By Staff Reporters Please donate to support our efforts to integrate financial planning with medical practice management for financial advisors, business consultants and their physician clients. Your contribution will help us print materials, mail information, and much more. Contributions Contributions to the ME-P are not yet tax deductible under [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2010 by Editors
Or – Maybe Just a Hobby By Darrell K. Pruitt; DDS One might ask how much knowledge of dentistry is required before a person is qualified to call oneself a “dental practice management consultant” – beyond maybe being able to spell HIPAA with only one P, and Hippocrates with two. Meet Jill Coon, Inc An [...]
Filed under: Career Development, Ethics, Health Insurance, Industry Indignation Index, Practice Management, Pruitt's Platform | Tagged: ADA, bitewing X rays, Darrell Pruitt, DDS, dental consultants, dentist, dentistry, HIPAA, ionizing radiation, Jill Coon Inc, Kathy Sebelius, thyroid gland | 5 Comments »
Posted on March 25, 2010 by Editors
What it is – How it works By Staff Reporters According to their website and TV infomercials, the principals of www.Guardian247.com developed the medical systems and protocols for the President of the United States [POTUS], senior White House officials and members of the President’s cabinet to ensure the best possible medical care anywhere in the [...]
Filed under: Career Development, Ethics, Health Economics, Information Technology, Media Mentions and PR, Research & Development | Tagged: A ReadyRoom™, concierge medicine, Jonathan Frye, POTUS, telemedicine, www.Guardian237.com | 2 Comments »
Posted on March 24, 2010 by Editors
In The Subprime of His Life – My Story By Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA, CMP™ [Editor-in-Chief] I am a long time fan of financial industry journalist Michael Lewis [Liars’ Poker, Moneyball and others] who just released a new book. The Big Short is a chronicle of four players in the subprime mortgage market who [...]
Filed under: Book Reviews, Breaking News, CMP Program, iMBA, Inc., Interviews, Investing, Portfolio Management, Recommended Books, Subscribe CD-ROM Journal, Videos | Tagged: 60 Minutes, Ben Graham, CFP, CMP, Cornwall Capital, David Dodd, david marcinko, Greg Lippmann, Jay Adkisson, Michael Lewis, Nicahel Burry, Scion Capital, SEC, Steve Eisner, subprime mortgage market, The Big Short, value investing, Wall Street, www.certifiedmedicalplanner.com, www.HealthDictionaySeries.com, www.medicalbusinessadvisors.com | 9 Comments »
Posted on March 23, 2010 by Editors
Vote on Healthcare Reform and Tell us What you Think? By the ME-P Now that healthcare reform is law, tell us what you think and give us your vote. You may wish to review this synopsis guide first: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34609984/ns/health-health_care/?GT1=43001 Feel free to answer these queries, in prose form, as well: 1. How will the new [...]
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Posted on March 23, 2010 by Editors
And, Why the Process was Madness By Staff Reporters With the House passing health care reform yesterday, resident ProPublica blogger Marian Wang explains what’s next for the bill, and why the process keeps on changing. Main Concerns Sometimes things are a little clearer in retrospect. Now that health care reform has passed in the House, [...]
Filed under: Breaking News, Healh Law & Policy, Health Insurance, Research & Development | Tagged: healthcare reform, Marian Wang, Obama care, Pelosi, ProPublica | Leave a Comment »
Posted on March 22, 2010 by Editors
Calling all Young Doctors, FAs and Medical Executives with “FLY” By Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA, CMP™ [Publisher-in-Chief] In my real-job travels as a medical management consultant, speaker and physician focused financial advisor, my clients and their healthcare practices / financial services business models run the gamut from the sublime to the ridiculous; from pegboards to [...]
Filed under: Career Development, CMP Program, iMBA, Inc., Op-Editorials, Practice Management | Tagged: change agents, disruptive innovation, EMRs, www.certifiedmedicalplanner.com, www.medicalbusinessadvisors.com | 6 Comments »
Posted on March 22, 2010 by Editors
Come on out Kim E. Volk – CEO of Delta Dental By Darrell K. Pruitt; DDS Today, Julie Frey posted “Dentist & Dental Insurance: No Love Lost” on Jim Du Molin’s Blog. http://www.thewealthydentist.com/blog/1186/dentist-dental-insurance/ Frey hosts dentists’ frank criticism of dental insurance – their harsh sentiments backed up with fresh results from yet another of the [...]
Filed under: Career Development, Ethics, Health Insurance, Practice Management, Pruitt's Platform | Tagged: ADA, Darrell Pruitt DDS, DDS, delta dental, dental insurance, eDRs, FTC, Julie Frey. Jim Du Molin, Kim E. Volk, McCarran-Ferguson Act, NADP, National Association of Dental Plans, United Concordia, UnitedHealthcare | 13 Comments »
Posted on March 21, 2010 by Editors
The Research Projects of the Laboratory for Quantitative Medicine By Staff Reporters According to Tom Goetz, new online decision tools like LifeMath.net, a project of Harvard University’s Laboratory for Quantitative Medicine, take advantage of cheap computer processing power to crunch data into personalized medical recommendations, making it far more relevant than generic advice (and thus [...]
Filed under: Alerts Sign-Up, Information Technology, Quality Initiatives, Research & Development | Tagged: Harvard Medical School, James S. Michaelson PhD, LifeMath, Massachusetts General Hospital, Research Projects of the Laboratory for Quantitative Medicine, Tom Goetz, Wired | Leave a Comment »
Posted on March 21, 2010 by Editors
Repo 105 and Why Auditors Have Some “Splainen to Do” According to ProPublica on March 16, 2010 on 9:07 am EDT, a post-mortem report on Lehman Brothers revealed a shady accounting maneuver through which the bank hid its financial troubles for nearly a decade. Pleading Ignorance In this repot, Marian Wang takes a closer look at [...]
Filed under: Accounting, Ethics, Insurance Matters, Investing, Portfolio Management | Tagged: Accounting, investment bank, Lehman Brothers, Marian Wang, ProPublica, Repo 105 | 3 Comments »
Posted on March 20, 2010 by Editors
For an Individual Opt-Out Request for Healthcare By MyMillionSite We The Undersigned Wish To Convey By Their Signatures Below That They Wish To Have The Same Rights Under The Current Health Care Legislation. That Allows The Individual States That If This Would Place An Economic Burden On That State They Have The Option To Opt [...]
Filed under: Breaking News, Ethics, Healh Law & Policy, Health Insurance | Tagged: healthcare reform, MyMillionSite, obama, Obama care | 7 Comments »
Posted on March 20, 2010 by Editors
An Oft Neglected Topic By Chris Thorman I wanted to give the ME-P a heads up on an article I just finished about a neglected topic in the eHR debate concerning clinical trial participation. It’s called: Electronic Health Records and Clinical Trials: An Incentive to Integrate. The Argument In the article, I make the argument [...]
Filed under: Information Technology, Practice Management, Research & Development | Tagged: ARRA, chris thorman, clinical trials, EHRs, EMRs, HIPAA, HITECH, Software Advice | 2 Comments »
Posted on March 19, 2010 by Editors
What it is – How it works – Where is it from? By David Edward Marcinko; MBA CMP™ [Publisher-in-Chief] RememberItNow was a featured company at the recent 10th annual HIMSS conference. It reports to be the best way for patients to take control of their health, or the health care of loved-ones. Their simple to [...]
Filed under: Breaking News, Ethics, Information Technology, Media Mentions and PR | Tagged: eHealth, HIMSS, Jeff Tacca, Pamela Swingley, Phil Wang, www.RememberItNow.com | 4 Comments »
Posted on March 18, 2010 by Editors
Voice your Opposition – Now As you know, the future of healthcare runs the risk of being taken over by the Government. We must do all we can to prevent that from occurring. Exercise your Franchise So, please contact your Congressman and the Blue Dog Democrat Coalition, now. And, voice your opinion to those 58 [...]
Filed under: Alerts Sign-Up, Ethics, Healh Law & Policy | Tagged: Blue Dog Democrat Coalition, healthcare reform, national healthcare, obama, ObamaCare, Pelosi, socialized medicine, tea party | 9 Comments »
Posted on March 18, 2010 by Editors
By Darrell K. Pruitt; DDS Two days ago, ADVANCE for Health Information Executives’ managing editor Bob Mitchell publicly criticized the author of last week’s Parade Magazine article, “Electronic Health Records Face Critics.” Personally, I thought it was cowardly for the editor to accuse Drew Jubera of journalistic recklessness without mentioning his name. http://community.advanceweb.com/blogs/hx_1/archive/2010/03/16/critics-ehrs-don-t-save-money.aspx According to [...]
Filed under: Ethics, Information Technology, Op-Editorials, Pruitt's Platform, Quality Initiatives | Tagged: ADVANCE, ADVANCE for Health Information Executives, AJC, Bob Mitchell, Darrell Pruitt, Drew Jubera, eDRs, EHRs, EMRs, HIPAA, meaningful use, Obama care, Office of National Coordinator of Health IT, ONCHIT, PARADE magazine, Rand | Leave a Comment »
Posted on March 17, 2010 by Editors
A Holistic Approach to Financial Health Planning By Somnath Basu; PhD, MBA Financial Advisers [FAs] often feel helpless in the face of fierce resistance from clients, especially doctors, to rein in their spending, stop living beyond their means and salt away more of their paychecks. Even worse, the financial services industry’s less discerning practitioners are [...]
Filed under: "Advisors Only", "Doctors Only", Ethics, Financial Planning, Research & Development | Tagged: Basu, behavioral finance, debt consolidation, debt reduction, financial advisors, financial planners, George Kinder, health 2.0, holistic financial planning, Richard Wagner, www.certifiedmedicalplanner.com | Leave a Comment »
Posted on March 16, 2010 by Editors
A Note to Diane Rehm By Darrell K. Pruitt; DDS Dear Diane Rehm, I always enjoy your show. You add value to my drive to work. As a dentist, I was especially interested in your March 10 show “Electronic Medical Records.” http://wamu.org/programs/dr/10/03/10.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WAMU885DianeRehm+%28WAMU%3A+The+Diane+Rehm+Show%29&utm_content=FaceBook#30598 In all the excitement that surrounds the 19 billion dollars our grandchildren have [...]
Filed under: Information Technology, Pruitt's Platform | Tagged: ADA, ARRA, carol horn, CCHIT, Darrell Pruitt, DDS, dentists, diane rehm, eDRs, electronic dental records, electronic medical records, EMRs, HHS, HIMSS, HITECH Act, meaningful use | 10 Comments »
Posted on March 15, 2010 by Editors
One Client’s Comparative Expense Analysis Experience By Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA [Publisher-in-Chief] A colleague posted an interesting essay recently on his blog The Incidental Economist. Austin Frakt PhD is a health economist with an educational background in physics and engineering. After receiving a PhD in statistical and applied mathematics, he spent four years [...]
Filed under: CMP Program, Health Insurance, iMBA, Inc., Investing, Practice Management | Tagged: AGI, Austin Frakt, CMP, CMP Program, CMP www.CertifiedMedicalPlanner.com, david marcinko, fiduciary, HD-HCPs, Health Insurance, high deductible health care plans, HSAs, incidental economist, insurance agents, Kaiser/HRET, MSAs | 2 Comments »
Posted on March 14, 2010 by Editors
A Future SEC Chairman? By Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA, CMP™ [Editor-in-Chief] www.CertifiedMedicalPlanner.com Harry Markopolos is finally taking his victory lap. He is out hustling a new book about his nearly decade-long pursuit of Bernie Madoff, and rightful criticism of the Securities Exchange Commission [SEC]. And, he’s been on a whirlwind media and PR tour [...]
Filed under: Breaking News, CMP Program, Ethics, Healh Law & Policy, Investing, Op-Editorials | Tagged: Bernie Madoff, Christopher Cox, david marcinko, Harry Markopolos, Mary L. Schapiro, SEC, www.certifiedmedicalplanner.com | 2 Comments »
Posted on March 14, 2010 by Editors
Where Information Becomes Intelligence™ By Staff Reporters The sanofi-aventis Managed Care Digest Series® is part of their continuing commitment to provide the healthcare industrial complex with the latest and most essential information on the evolution of medical care. The Series, available online or in print, provides key benchmarking data that can help assess value, control costs, [...]
Filed under: Book Reviews, Career Development, Health Economics, Health Insurance, Healthcare Finance, Managed Care | Tagged: david marcinko, Managed Care Digest, sanofi-aventis | 1 Comment »
Posted on March 13, 2010 by Editors
Help Support the ME-P You were among of the first; the early adopters if you will. You saw the troubling state of healthcare, medical economics, private practice and the financial services community in our country. And, you believed in the ME-P and our “new-wave” brand of informed and collaborative investigative journalism to do something about [...]
Filed under: "Advisors Only", "Doctors Only", Marketing & Advertising, Media Mentions and PR, Op-Editorials, Sponsors | Tagged: collaborative medicine, david marcinko, health 2.0, Health Economics, healthcare journalism, medical practice management, participatory care, www.healthcarefinancials.com, www.healthdictionaryseries.com, www.medicalbusinessadvisors.com, www.MedicalExecutivePost.com | Leave a Comment »
Posted on March 13, 2010 by Editors
Deus Ex Machina – NOT By Staff Reporters Question Have electronic medical records made a difference in patient care? Answer According to a new study looking at the digital medical record adoption of 3,000 hospitals, electronic records have made little difference in healthcare costs or the quality of medical care. Assessment That’s discouraging, considering that [...]
Filed under: "Doctors Only", Career Development, Health Economics, Information Technology, Op-Editorials, Practice Management | Tagged: EHRs, electronic health records, electronic medical records, EMRs, kevin pho, medical records | 5 Comments »
Posted on March 12, 2010 by Editors
ADVERTISEMENT Office Case Models in Healthcare Business [A Practice Improvement Compendium] In Medical Practice? – Buy this CD-ROM Regardless of specialty, most doctors quickly realize there are few case model guidelines available to steer them through the day-to-day management maze. One solution is to discuss best-of-breed practices with leading practitioners in order to discern what successful doctors [...]
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Posted on March 12, 2010 by Editors
So Says New Coalition By Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA, CMP™ [Publisher-in-Chief] The Financial Planning Coalition [FPC] is pushing for a law that would require anyone calling themselves a financial planner to meet certain ethical and educational standards and to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]. About the FPC According to its’ website, [...]
Filed under: "Ask-an-Advisor", Breaking News, Career Development, Ethics, Financial Planning, Op-Editorials | Tagged: CFP, CMP, david marcinko, FA, financial planning association, Financial Planning Coalition, FPA, insurance agents, NAPFA, National Association of Personal Financial Advisors, RIA, Robert Glovsky, SEC, stock-brokers, www.certifiedmedicalplanner.com | 14 Comments »
Posted on March 11, 2010 by Editors
Or … Just Accidentally Billing Dead Patients? By Staff Reporters Sixty-six New York state healthcare providers billed Medicaid for services provided to 287 patients they later admitted were “deceased at the time of service,” says the office of state Medicaid Inspector General James Sheehan. Assessment The inappropriate billings, which the providers attributed to clerical mistakes, [...]
Filed under: "Doctors Only", Breaking News, Ethics, Health Insurance, Industry Indignation Index, Quality Initiatives | Tagged: Bellevue, James Sheehan., New York Medicaid | 2 Comments »
Posted on March 11, 2010 by Editors
Connecting Hospitals with Patients and Referring Physicians By Staff Reporters At the recent 2010 Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference & Exhibition here in Atlanta, Microsoft announced Microsoft HealthVault Community Connect, a new software solution for hospitals designed to help them improve care coordination and engage patients and their families in managing [...]
Filed under: Information Technology, Practice Management | Tagged: Community Connect, EHRs, EMRs, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, healthvault, HIMSS, microsoft, Microsoft HealthVault Community Connect | 4 Comments »
Posted on March 10, 2010 by Editors
A Multi-Strategic Discussion By Ann Miller RN, MHA Since the market crash, portfolio insurance and program trading are not as popular as they were in the mid-1980s. In this essay, Dr. Somnath Basu explains why. Link: Insuring the Investment Portfolio Somnath Basu, Ph.D., is program director of the California Institute of Finance in the School [...]
Filed under: Financial Planning, Portfolio Management, Research & Development, Risk Management, Subscribe CD-ROM Journal | Tagged: covered collars, index call options, index put options, long put and short call collars, porfolio hedging, portfolio insurance, Somnath Basu | 1 Comment »
Posted on March 9, 2010 by Editors
In My Opinion … Hospital Charges Not 4 Me Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA [Editor-in-Chief] On February 09, 2010, journalist Maggie Mahar posted an excellent op-ed piece on The Health Care Blog. In fact; I am now compelled to address one aspect of it. The essay was titled: “Massachusetts’ Problem and Maryland’s Solution”. Assuredly, I’ve no beef [...]
Filed under: Health Economics, Health Insurance, Op-Editorials, Quality Initiatives | Tagged: david marcinko, Edward Miller MD, hospital cost shifting, Johns Hopkins University, Maggie Mahar, Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission, medical care quality, Robert Wachter, The Health Care Blog, www.thehealthcareblog.com | 4 Comments »
Posted on March 8, 2010 by Editors
A Basic Overview for Emerging Physician and Medical Professional Investors By Somnath Basu; PhD, MBA There are three basic considerations in any investment decision. 1] The first is the understanding of the investment objective or why the investment is being made. While this may seem somewhat irrelevant at first – why would you be investing [...]
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Posted on March 7, 2010 by Editors
ME-P in the Forefront of “Reasonable” Skepticism By Staff Reporters There is no doubt that paper medical records can cause harm. They are easily lost and damaged, they disappear during emergencies, and they are often incomplete. With incorrect or missing information, doctors end up duplicating tests, making uninformed decisions and delaying care. Another POV Well [...]
Filed under: Information Technology, Professional Liability | Tagged: Alexander Friedman MD, EHRs, EMRs, never-events, wrong sided surgery, WSJ | 8 Comments »
Posted on March 6, 2010 by Editors
On Publishing Information and Entertainment By Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA [Publisher-in-Chief] As avid blogger Darrell K. Pruitt DDS recently noted, this past quarter brought in a large number of monthly hits, readers and subscribers to the ME-P; and we are grateful. The traffic boost was mainly due to interest in eMRs and the financial essays [...]
Filed under: Ethics, Op-Editorials, Quality Initiatives | Tagged: Austin Frakt, Darrell Pruitt, david marcinko, EHRs, EMRs, health 2.0, Somnath Basu | 1 Comment »
Posted on March 5, 2010 by Editors
On Pharmacogenetic Testing and Genomics - An Invitation By Karen D. Matthias RN, MBA Dr. Marcinko and ME-P Readers Wouldn’t it be wonderful to test someone’s DNA and know the right drug to prescribe at the right dose the first time without the worry of adverse side effects? Pharmacogenetics—the manner in which a person’s genes affect their [...]
Filed under: Drugs and Pharma, Quality Initiatives, Research & Development | Tagged: Diane J. Allingham-Hawkins, DNA, evidence based medicine, genomics, Hayes Inc, tamoxifen | Leave a Comment »
Posted on March 4, 2010 by Editors
Moneywise? By Somnath Basu; PhD, MBA For those of us between the ages of 45 to 54, the thought of retirement should be popping up a few times these days. And, for doctors between ages 55 and 64, the thought may be taking on urgent tones. Many of us are reconciling to the idea that [...]
Filed under: Financial Planning, Investing, Retirement and Benefits | Tagged: 401(k), 403(b), EBRI, Financial Planning, physician investing, Physician retirement, social security, Somnath Basu, wealth management | 4 Comments »
Posted on March 3, 2010 by Editors
What they are – How they work By Staff Reporters The eHealth Initiative and the Foundation for eHealth Initiative are independent, non-profit affiliated organizations, whose shared mission is to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare information technology [HIT]. Protean Stakeholders Both organizations are focused on engaging diverse stakeholders–including hospitals and other healthcare organizations, [...]
Filed under: Career Development, Information Technology | Tagged: eHealth Initiative, EHRs, EMRs, ePRs, Foundation for eHealth Initiative, health exchanges, health information technology, HIT, IT | 3 Comments »
Posted on March 3, 2010 by Editors
Office of Inspector General By Pati Trites MPA CHBC, with Staff Reporters Any readers considering enrolling in a medical coding school should check out this link: www.MedicalBillingAndCodingCertification.net Why? Because the written policies and procedures concerning proper health insurance and Medicare coding should reflect the current reimbursement principles set forth in applicable statutes, regulations and Federal, State or private [...]
Filed under: Accounting, Healh Law & Policy, Health Insurance, Practice Management | 3 Comments »
Posted on March 2, 2010 by Editors
ASK-AN-ADVISOR Courts at Odds over whether Hospital Mishaps are Accidents? By Staff Reporters A spouse dies while in surgery. Was he or she covered under your family life insurance plan? Are you entitled to collect? Assessment Explore this issue thru an original article by Asher Hawkins [02.08.10] 06:18 PM EST, from Forbes. Link: http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/08/life-insurance-medical-malpractice-personal-finance-mistake.html?partner=msn Conclusion And so, [...]
Filed under: "Ask-an-Advisor", Healh Law & Policy, Insurance Matters, Professional Liability, Quality Initiatives | 2 Comments »
Posted on March 2, 2010 by Editors
What it is – How it works By Hope Rachel Hetico; RN, MHA [Managing Editor] SocialVibe is a new networking website with over 1,000,000 members. It was founded by Joe Marchese, Brandon Mills and David Levy, and aims to reward publications like the ME-P through donations to their charity of choice. How it Works After [...]
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Posted on March 1, 2010 by Editors
One HIT Futurist’s Opinion By Staff Reporters A few years ago, Shahid N. Shah wrote that the FDA should be paying closer attention to healthcare IT systems and consider regulating those systems; in other words – regulating them the same as any other drug, medical device or foodstuff. After all, some healthcare IT systems can [...]
Filed under: "Doctors Only", Healh Law & Policy, Information Technology, Op-Editorials, Practice Management | Tagged: david marcinko, EHRs, EMRs, FDA, healthcare information technology, HIT, Shahid Shaw, www.BusinesofMedicalPractice | 12 Comments »
Posted on March 1, 2010 by Editors
ADVERTISEMENT Events-Planner: MARCH 2010 By Staff Writers “Keeping track of important health economics and financial industry meetings, conferences and summits” Welcome to this issue of the Medical Executive-Post and our Events-Planner. It contains the latest information on conferences, news, and relevant resources in healthcare finance, economics, research and development, business management, pharmaceutical pricing, and physician/entity [...]
Filed under: Experts Invited | Tagged: AORN, BISA, Events-Planner, HI-TECH, HIMSS, HIT, Managed Care, medicare, RAC Summit | Leave a Comment »
