Children’s Medical Center and UT Southwestern Medical Center, both in Dallas, collaborated to become the first hospitals to Twitter live during a pediatric kidney transplant ...
Read More »Free AMA Webinar To Help Physicians Access Stimulus Funds For HIT
As part of its continuing efforts to help physicians learn about and adopt new technology, the American Medical Association (AMA) announced a new, free webinar ...
Read More »Quest Diagnostics to Connect to Microsoft HealthVault and Empower Patients and Physicians to Share Diagnostic Laboratory Test Results Online
Quest Diagnostics announced that it will enable patients and their physicians to share diagnostic laboratory test results, using Microsoft HealthVault(tm). The connection will enable physicians who ...
Read More »Buying Disability Insurance While in Residency or Fellowship
By Anthony DelVecchio Ever since I began my career in the insurance business, I have focused most of my energies toward working with physicians. One ...
Read More »A New World: Transplant Surgery Live on Twitter
On Monday, May 18, 2009, Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, TX will Twitter live from the operating room while three-year-old John Gilbreath receives a life-saving ...
Read More »Longest Wait Times for Appointments in Boston and Philly
Need to see a doctor? Depending on where you live…don’t hold your breath. Merritt Hawkins released the results of their Physician Appointment Wait Times survey ...
Read More »Commentary: Malpractice Lawsuits Down in PA, but There’s Still a Long Way to Go
By Alan Lyndon A few weeks ago, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell released data from the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts (AOPC) that showed a 41 ...
Read More »Multiple Bariatric Surgical Options Available to Morbidly Obese Patients
by Fernando B. Bonanni, Jr., M.D. At Abington Memorial Hospital’s Institute for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (IMBS), we take the emphasis off the surgery and ...
Read More »Healthcare Salary Survey Results are in
BALA CYNWYD, PA – May 2009 – Margolis & Company P.C. has conducted its eighth annual Salary Survey for administrative and staff positions within physician ...
Read More »Online Doctor Ratings or Physician Bashing: There Has Got To Be A Better Way
By Jeffrey Segal, M.D. President, Medical Justice “Don’t see this doctor. Run, and run as fast as you can.” “This doctor learned everything he knew from ...
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