Practice Management News

NEW ORLEANS – A practice assessment of a practice’s documentation policies is an important step that may reveal some of the reporting requirements are already being performed, or can be easily added, Shari Erickson, MPH, vice president for governmental affairs and medical practice for the American College of Physicians, told Healio Internal Medicine.

NEW ORLEANS — ACP provided an update of their physician well-being, professional satisfaction and “Patients before Paperwork” initiatives during a press briefing at ACP’s Internal Medicine Meeting.

NEW ORLEANS — ACP recently published a position paper in Annals of Internal Medicine offering recommendations on how to promote and achieve gender equity in compensation and career advancement within the medical profession.

Prescription opioid volumes declined by 29% from their peak in 2011, according to a report on medicine use in the United States by IQVIA.

NEW ORLEANS — Maintaining as much eye contact with patients as possible improves doctors’ relationships with their patients, reduces the time spent on EHRs outside patient settings and improves one’s ‘computer-side manner,’ according to a presenter at the American College of Physicians Internal Medicine Meeting.

In Medicare’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System, or MIPS, most ambulatory internal medicine quality measures are not compliant with ACP criteria, according to ACP in a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Routine transgender health education is not common in U.S. medical schools. At Harvard Medical School and the University of California, San Francisco — two universities that have placed a premium on transgender health — the subject is currently covered only in elective courses. Infectious Disease News asked Katherine L. Margo, MD, associate professor of family medicine and community health in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, if transgender health education should be required in medical school curricula.

In the last 15 years, Jae M. Sevelius, PhD, has seen positive changes in transgender health care, mainly from an awareness perspective.

Offering CME credit through a closed Facebook group resulted in significant engagement among members, suggesting that social media represents an effective platform for educating medical and surgical professionals, according to new research presented at the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons 2018 Annual Meeting and World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery.

Proper use of organs from people who die of overdose could help address the shortage of organs available for transplant, according to findings recently published in Annals of Internal Medicine.