Practice Management News

The AMA and other professional organizations endorsed the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act, which would streamline prior authorizations for Medicare Advantage plans and introduce additional protections for patients.

Andrew Carnegie once said, “The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate,” and “Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.”

In order to obtain “optimal health for all,” the AMA has released a plan to remove structural racism within the organization.

The number of inpatients with a penicillin allergy label at a children’s hospital approached 9%, according to results from a retrospective chart review presented at SHM Converge — the virtual meeting of the Society of Hospital Medicine.

Of all the risks to doctors, the most common threat to long-term financial security may be divorce. Yet, what can physicians do to protect from this risk?

In this video, Kimberly J. Templeton, MD, FAAOS, FAOA, FAMWA, past president of the American Medical Women’s Association, describes how biases and harassment impact women physicians and ways to improve their well-being.

In this video, Nitin Damle, MD, MS, MACP, past president of the ACP, discusses highlights from his presentation at the virtual ACP Internal Medicine Meeting on the health consequences of climate change.

Better health care benefits both patients and physicians. However, more efforts are needed to achieve this goal, according to a speaker at the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting.

Amid the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, select units at the University of Chicago Medical Center achieved daily hand hygiene compliance rates of more than 90%, and some even hit 100% at one point, data show.

Media reports have recently raised the issue of vaccine passports, which would allow people to prove their immunization status against COVID-19.