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Georgia hospital finds open-heart program partner
Medicare costs soar for cancer care
April 29, 2008
Healthcare flunks customer service
Gingrich calls for medical update
Across U.S., anxiety over access to patient records
Delaware doctors to monitor Maryland ICU patients electronically
April 28, 2008
North Carolina Medical Board may put malpractice settlement info online
Virtual office visits appeal to patients, physicians, insurers
Atlanta hospital hiring dispute closer to suit
April 25, 2008
Exodus of specialists from ERs raises concerns in California
Tennessee governor to get bill limiting medical malpractice
April 24, 2008
Wasted medical dollars
Fewer boards discipline doctors
Treatment disparities linked to physician practice resources
At bedside, stay stoic or display emotions?
Doctors who kill themselves
Focus on engagement, loyalty to improve doc retention
Alabama board rejects beach-community medical center
Florida bill seeks to clarify medical services pricing
Heart surgeon gets Congressional Gold Medal
Tennessee Medical Association wants law changed to insure more young adults
April 23, 2008
Florida doctor oversight rapped
California disciplined fewer doctors in 2007
Few U.S. doctors answer e-mails from patients
Quality care, not number of procedures, determines bypass results
April 22, 2008
An unhealthy trend: U.S. has fewer general surgeons
Life spans decline in some U.S. areas
Review urges aggressive MRSA screening for health workers
April 21, 2008
South Florida medical malpractice cases difficult for both sides
Blue Cross of Florida ordered to pay doctors
April 18, 2008
Minnesota healthcare changes spur access worries
April 17, 2008
GAO report calls for better hospital standards
OIG issues open letter to providers about self disclosure
Dealing with digitally-empowered patients
Merck wrote drug studies for doctors
A looming shortage, or the wrong doctors in the wrong places?
April 16, 2008
SSM Healthcare-St. Louis launches integrated electronic medical record system
Dollars to doughnuts diagnosis
April 15, 2008
Boca Raton, FL, doctor agrees to pay $7 million to settle fraud lawsuit
AMA calls for more physician training in response to IOM report
Briefer hospitalizations are not always best, Pennsylvania study finds
Feds try to cut costs of hospital errors
April 14, 2008
Study: Boomers to flood medical system
New twist on the old house call
Dispatcher, ambulance shortages slow response in San Francisco
Congress aims to ease doctor shortage
Too many heart centers, not enough transplants in Chicago
The health insurance mafia
Doctors got off lighter in UCLA snooping case
Immigration debate hits home for liver transplant patients
April 11, 2008
Warning on medication mix-ups for kids
Drug companies to reveal grant practices
April 10, 2008
On Medicare and scorned by the docs
Who said universal coverage would be easy?
UK doctors debate male-female practice styles
Survey shows state of ASC reimbursement, EHR adoption
No-show patients exact a daily toll
Pennsylvania study tracks hospital infection
In shift to digital, more repeat mammograms
April 9, 2008
Hopkins performs first U.S. ’six-way’ transplants
Cancer treatment facilities spreading in St. Louis-area
Doctors are to provide urgent care at Baltimore-area drugstores
Reports of deaths linked to blood-thinner heparin triple
Medical errors costing U.S. billions
April 8, 2008
$30 million awarded in Florida malpractice lawsuit
As super bug spreads, doctors rethink approach
Kansas City-area physicians are seeking results by pooling resources
Some candidates disagree, but studies show it’s often cheaper to let people get sick
April 7, 2008
In Massachusetts, universal coverage strains care
Medicine mix-ups harm hospitalized kids
Hospital capacity drives costs
April 4, 2008
Report gives Massachusetts doctors kudos for preventative care
Senator has questions on Amgen anemia drug rebates
Medical malpractice legislation passes Tennessee House
April 3, 2008
Summa Health System recruits 26 Ohio cardiologists
Kansas Board of Healing Arts director, general counsel resign
Loan-forgiveness program not always enough to attract rural doctors
Minority doctors in short supply in California
WellPoint: 11 errors off-limits
April 2, 2008
Amid calls for shake-up, Kansas medical regulators to meet
Bill could change Georgia's hospital rules
Making room for 'Dr. Nurse'
National standards to rank physicians planned
April 1, 2008
California drafts rules to regulate emergency room payments
Pennsylvania doctors' insurance subsidy lapses
IU med school looks to expand rotations outside Indianapolis
Majority of U.S. doctors back national insurance plan