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Archive for May, 2009

Should Microsoft and Google Be Bound by HIPAA?

Posted on: Thursday, May 28, 2009

In a Health IT Strategist reader poll, readers were asked if the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) should force Microsoft, Google and other personal health information providers to abide by standards put forward by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996.
The HIPAA standards were not created for personal health [...]

Tags: google, health insurance, HIPAA, microsoft

Raise for ER Staff May Come from Stimulus Coffers

Posted on: Friday, May 22, 2009

A 10% Medicare reimbursement increase to emergency department staff, including on-call specialists who often don’t get paid for emergency care, is on the table for lawmakers.  The hope is to turn emergency care from being an underfunded community service to a center that pays fairly and well for attendant staff.
Emergency centers have seen an uptick [...]

Tags: emergency medicine physicians

New Study Pinpoints Issues with EHR Adoption in US Health Care

Posted on: Friday, May 15, 2009

In a recent survey of over 3000 US health care facilities, only 12% had adopted the most basic electronic medical records, and only 1.5% had implemented all the points needed to be in compliance with new EHR standards.  While the government has provided funding to convert hospitals over to approved EHR methods, the numbers offered [...]

Tags: adoption, physician jobs, us health care

AAFP Asks Members to Sign Up for New Online Health Care Notification System

Posted on: Tuesday, May 12, 2009

The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) is encouraging its members to sign up for a new health care online system, the Health Care Notification Network (HCNN).  If 5% of AAFP members sign up from the link on this page , AAFP will receive a nominal fee.  This system is more efficient than paper-based patient [...]

Tags: health care, healthcare systems, physician jobs

Neurologists

Posted on: Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Neurologists work with patients who have lifelong debilitating diseases of the nervous system and may also be called on to make a diagnosis of brain death for terminally ill patients.  There is also increasing evidence that diseases that have formally been in the psychiatric domain, such as schizophrenia, may have neurological causation and symptoms, as [...]

Tags: careers in neurology, neurologists, psychiatry

Disability Insurance for Physicians

Posted on: Friday, May 1, 2009

All physicians require disability insurance on the job. From your first job out of school to your own private practice, here are the facts that you need on getting insured properly. Even if you are employed and you have insurance through your employer, your coverage may not extend to everything it needs to.
Insurance for Your [...]

Tags: disability insurance, physician jobs

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