Practice Management News

Addiction experts and medical societies were generally receptive to the administration focusing its attention on the opioid crisis as outlined in a speech from President Donald J. Trump earlier this week, but in interviews with Healio Family Medicine, said they hoped for more specifics and a more targeted approach in the near future.

Limited shifts and workweeks for internal medicine trainees and interns, compared with flexible models that allow first-year residents to work longer hours, do not result in any difference in time spent on education and direct patient care, according to findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Medical students who temporarily put down a medical instrument and picked up a musical one, say doing so helped alleviate their burnout symptoms and made them more empathetic to their patients’ needs.

The United States spent almost twice as much as other high-income countries on health care, but the use of health care in the U.S. closely aligned with those other nations, according to research recently published in JAMA.

Eligible clinicians have until March 31 to submit their 2017 Merit-based Incentive Payment System, or MIPS, data to CMS.

Cigna Corporation and Express Scripts Holding Company announced a definitive agreement in which Cigna will acquire Express Scripts for approximately $67 billion, according to a press release.

A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators recently introduced an updated version of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, known as CARA 2.0, to build upon past efforts of the program to increase funding authorization levels and establish new policy reforms that respond to the opioid crisis most effectively.

The American Gastroenterological Association has named the 2018 winners of its annual recognition awards, which it gives to leaders in gastroenterology for their achievements in the specialty.

Physicians often encounter individuals who later commit firearm violence and many of these individuals have “well-recognized” risk factors, which presents physicians with an opportunity to conduct interventions and discuss safe fire arm behaviors, according to the ACP.

By some estimates, there are between 50,000 and 200,000 apps intended to serve a medical need. These apps claim to manage symptoms of depression, improve care in patients with inflammatory bowel disease, manage diabetes as well as help patients with a myriad of other medical uses.