Modern Healthcare just reported that the Federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has identified a second case of MERS (Middle-East Respiratory Syndrome) in the United States.
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How Physicians Can Successfully Participate in P4P Programs
This article in Physicians Practice explains how physicians can successfully participate in P4P programs (pay-for-performance).
Physicians Targets of New IRS Identity-Theft Scam
According to this article in Physicians Practice, the FBI and Secret Service report that physicians are now the target of identity theft criminals.
The Ups and Downs of Running a Direct Pay Practice
This article is a highly-personal and somber look by a physician who started a direct-pay primary practice a year ago.
Read the article in Physicians Practice.
Medicare Panel Nixes CT Screening for Older Smokers for Lung Cancer
What do you think, is this not only cost-saving but good medicine?
Article is in Modern Healthcare
Physician Alert! Are Insurance Carriers Trying to Trick You into Accepting Lower Reimbursement Rates?
This article is from Physicians Practice.
Healthcare Pioneers Holding Medical Technology Conference May 14
My colleague Dr. Simon Sikorski, M.D., is one of the organizers for an amazing conference for medical technology entrepreneurs this May 14 in Boston. It will be a gathering for the brightest minds in medical innovation, so don’t miss it!
A Physician’s Personal Experience with Vaccines
This physician developed a rare disease as a child, one which his parents blamed on vaccines. Years later and after he become a physician, this physician visited an immunologist, who reviewed his medical records and provided a convincing opinion that vaccines had NOT caused the child’s illness.
This is a thought-provoking and very personal article that shows that medical care should be fact- and evidence-driven, not by supposition, innuendo and nowadays, conspiracy theories.
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2014/03/doctors-powerful-personal-story-vaccines.html