Whether you’re suffering from a broken bone or a life-threatening illness, a trip to the emergency room is always a scary prospect. But what happens when an ER is faced with more patients than it [...]
Many specialists are balking at what they say are onerous new rules to get recertified, warning the demands will force some physicians out of practice at a time when the nation faces a shortage.
Lack of residency positions has forced many foreign-trained physicians to take up “survival jobs” – from delivering pizzas to driving a cab – instead of practicing medicine, finds a study.
While the Federal Communications Commission is not technically a healthcare entity, it is driving a key project that will ultimately facilitate the underlying infrastructure for telemedicine: [...]
The U.S. is expected to need 52,000 more primary care physicians by 2025, according to a study by the Robert Graham Center, which does family medicine policy research. But funding for teaching [...]
“… too few physicians are entering our field to meet society’s needs. The situation is worse than studies suggest. Some studies count all internal medicine training as “primary care,” even though [...]
Encouraging connected care can reduce costs by facilitating coordination of care, and moving care into lower-cost settings – from a hospital to a doctor’s office; or preventing emergency care [...]
The political alignment of physicians in the United States has shifted from predominantly Republican to predominantly Democrat, based in part on the larger number of women physicians and smaller [...]
The AMA hopes the new guidelines will help foster innovation in telemedicine, as well as help to protect the patient-physician relationship and promote improved care coordination and communication.