Practice Management News

Better health care benefits both patients and physicians. However, more efforts are needed to achieve this goal, according to a speaker at the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting.

HHS has released new practice guidelines to expand access to buprenorphine for opioid use disorder.

Amid the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, select units at the University of Chicago Medical Center achieved daily hand hygiene compliance rates of more than 90%, and some even hit 100% at one point, data show.

Most people who used kratom did so to self-treat their opioid dependence or withdrawal, according to an analysis of 500 YouTube videos.

Media reports have recently raised the issue of vaccine passports, which would allow people to prove their immunization status against COVID-19.

The proportion of Black physicians has only grown by 4% from 1900 to 2018, and there are still substantial income differences between Black and white physicians, according to findings published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

In the nearly 1 year since George Floyd, a Black man, lost his life while in the custody of a white police officer, there has been a nationwide awakening that racism is a public health crisis and a social determinant of health.

April 22 is Earth Day, an annual event to highlight the importance of clean air, water and land that was first observed 51 years ago, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

April is National Minority Health Month, which recognizes health disparities in underrepresented populations.

Researchers found that wearing a medical procedure mask snugly beneath a cloth mask nearly doubled the effectiveness of filtering out particles the size of SARS-CoV-2, compared with wearing just one mask.