Practice Management News

ORLANDO — A leader in health care today clearly articulates the rationale and goals for change, casts a clear vision for how such change will improve patient and community care and knows how to motivate people to engage in needed change, Sunanda V. Kane, MD, MSPH, FACG, of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., said during the David Y. Graham Lecture at the World Congress of Gastroenterology at ACG 2017.

WASHINGTON — A novel mobile device monitoring system reduced 30- and 90-day cirrhosis-related readmissions with no potentially preventable readmissions in this pilot study at 90 days, according to data presented at The Liver Meeting 2017.

WASHINGTON — With up to 10% of children worldwide diagnosed with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and even nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, pediatric hepatologists face an unmet need for medical treatment and non-invasive diagnostics, according to a presenter at The Liver Meeting 2017.

In the United States and England, individuals in the lowest quintile of wealth were significantly more likely to die or be disabled than those in the highest quintile of wealth, according to findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Amid widespread concern, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, MSc, rescinded his appointment of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe as a “goodwill ambassador” for the world health agency.

WASHINGTON — Utilizing existing primary care pharmacists allowed for an increased number of patients treated with comparable results to liver specialists, according to a presenter at The Liver Meeting 2017.

WASHINGTON — Utilizing existing primary care pharmacists allowed for an increased number of patients treated with comparable results to liver specialists, according to a presenter at The Liver Meeting 2017.

WASHINGTON — Beginning Friday, October 20, Healio Gastroenterology and Liver Disease will provide live coverage from the The Liver Meeting 2017.

ORLANDO — In this exclusive video from the World Congress of Gastroenterology at ACG 2017, outgoing ACG president Carol Burke, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic, discusses her presentation of survey results that showed high rates of burnout among gastroenterologists.

Senators Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., introduced a bipartisan bill that will finance cost-sharing subsidy payments to health insurance companies for the next 2 years.