By Alan Lyndon To say the launch of Healthcare.gov last October was a disaster is being overly generous. It was worse than that. It was ...
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By Lisa Johnson The morning buzzer goes off, but you’re just not ready to face a day at work. You text your boss that you’re ...
Read More »What Doctors Can And Can’t Do After They’re Fired
By Martha Swartz The last thing you’re probably thinking about when you’re about to sign an employment agreement is how your relationship with your employer ...
Read More »Let’s Move: First Lady Michelle Obama talks healthcare on The Tonight Show (VIDEO)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hazIopgMSQw By Alan Lyndon First Lady Michelle Obama appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Thursday and, after doing some comedy sketches with Fallon ...
Read More »5 Tips To Help Patients Get Best Health Care (VIDEO)
By Alan Lyndon It’s not easy being a patient. Insurance companies and health care laws make it really difficult to know all of the rules ...
Read More »Which Device Do Doctors Use For Medical News: iPhone or iPad?
By Alan Lyndon How do you read journal articles? Print? Online? And, if on a mobile device, which one? A new survey found that 28 ...
Read More »Doctors Should Prescribe Nutrition for Heart Disease
By Elizabeth Klodas, MD, FACC In the era of new cholesterol guidelines that significantly increase the number of statin-eligible patients, published in a country where ...
Read More »How Video Games Can Improve Your Health, Attention and Skills
By Alan Lyndon Lots of news in the past few days about the health benefits of playing video games. That’s right, parents, a little bit ...
Read More »Are Doctors Screening Their Patients for Hepatitis B?
By Curtis T. Miyamoto, MD I recently met with Chari Cohen, MPH DrPh(c), Director of Public Health, and Kuan-Lung Daniel Chen, MPH, CPH, Program Manager, ...
Read More »Transition to ICD-10 May Cost 3X More Than Predicted For Physician Practices
The mandated implementation of the ICD-10 code set will be dramatically more expensive for most physician practices than previously estimated, according to an updated cost study released ...
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