Practice Management News

Welcome to the inaugural Intellectual Property Update. On a monthly basis, Intellectual Property Update will provide content related to an intellectual property topic of interest to physicians, health care professionals and companies in the medical profession.

Clinicians have begun receiving letters that will provide information about their 2017 participation status in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System, according to AAFP’s website.

On May 9, Scott Gottlieb, MD, was confirmed as the new commissioner of the FDA by a 57 to 42 Senate vote. A resident fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, Gottlieb was a controversial pick at the time of his nomination because of his long history of work with the pharmaceutical industry.

CHICAGO — In this exclusive video from Digestive Disease Week, Norah Terrault, MD, MPH, discusses gender inequalities within the medical work environment and the steps women can take to optimize their career path.

CHICAGO — In this exclusive video from Digestive Disease Week, Raymond Cross, MD, associate professor of medicine in the department of gastroenterology and hepatology, and director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, discusses his presentation on ethics in telemedicine.

Nearly one-third of the 222 new pharmaceuticals and biologics approved by the FDA from 2001 through 2010 were subject to a postmarket safety event such as issuance of a safety communication, boxed warning, or withdrawal, according to research recently published in JAMA.

Parents were more likely to trust their child’s physician when the physician’s diagnosis corresponded with information the parent procured online, but they were more inclined to seek a second opinion when their own search results contradicted the diagnosis, according to research presented at the 2017 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.

CHICAGO — In this exclusive video from Digestive Disease Week, Grace H. Elta, MD, Chair of the DDW Council and faculty member at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, discusses a meeting organized by the AGA Committee for Gender and Diversity, which focused on gender and minority inequities in gastroenterology and medicine in general.

The fiscal 2018 budget developed by President Donald J. Trump would all but eliminate funding for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the agency spearheading the fight against the national opioid epidemic, according to a report from Politico.

CHICAGO — Healio Gastroenterology staff will provide live coverage from Digestive Disease Week 2017 from Saturday, May 6, through Tuesday, May 9, at McCormick Place in Chicago.