Practice Management News

The National Guideline Clearinghouse website — the online tool that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality said provided information on clinical practice guidelines — went dark earlier this month.

CMS recently rescinded its decision to stop further collections or payments under the risk adjustment program.

WASHINGTON — Whether for real-time e-visits or remote patient monitoring, telehealth is likely to play a big role in the future of medicine as more technology and devices become available.

The nonprofit organization Vivli launched a new data-sharing and analytics platform today that will advance clinical research by streamlining the process to discover, aggregate, analyze and share data from clinical trials.

Many patients who want to stop using buprenorphine for opioid use disorder were not able to, according to findings recently published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

WASHINGTON — Physicians should push their own brand or the brand of their organization with full awareness of the goal and the appropriate strategy in place, according to a social media expert at Digestive Disease Week 2018.

The CMS decision to stop further collections or payments under the risk adjustment program leaves many questions about future health coverage and insurance premiums unanswered, experts and medical associations told Healio Family Medicine.

Physicians with burnout reported medical errors at double the rate of other clinicians after adjusting for specialty, work hours, fatigue and work unit safety rating, according to findings recently published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

The recognition of potential utility of marijuana for medicinal purposes is nothing new. A search in PubMed by Healio Family Medicine found several articles describing the substance’s use as far back as ancient times to treat epilepsy, joint pain, muscle spasms, as well as gout and malaria.

The percentage of health care professionals who were self-employed declined and the gap in earnings between employed and self-employed health care professionals reversed or narrowed since 2001, according to findings recently published in JAMA Network Open.