Practice Management News

Physicians comprised about one-fifth of unique speakers and provided less than one-third of speaking time on COVID-19 content during 5 weeks of primetime programming on cable television this past spring, data showed.

Stoicism has enjoyed a significant resurgence in popularity in the last decade. It is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by the thinker Zeno in Athens during the early third century BC.

Female physicians spent a median of 33.4 additional minutes daily — or more than three additional 40-hour work weeks annually — working on electronic health records than their male counterparts, researchers reported.

President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced key members of his health team today — individuals he called “trusted, accomplished” and “ready from day one” to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control.

Patients who received all medication up front and only monitored via two phone calls over 12 weeks achieved 95% sustained virologic response, according to a presentation at The Digital Liver Meeting Experience.

Health care systems have previously acknowledged the importance of — but rarely implemented — strategies for integrating palliative care into ED care, researchers wrote in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.

Two epidemiological studies presented at The Digital Liver Meeting Experience revealed the work left in achieving elimination goals in hepatitis C virus.

A panel of experts at the Primary Care Collaborative Annual Conference discussed ways to maximize the use of telehealth.

A new grant program, sponsored by the ABIM, ACP and other groups, intends to help the health care community “promote trust and create a more equitable health system.”

Financial payments from pharmaceutical companies were “consistently associated with increased prescribing” across a wide range of physician specialties, drug classes and prescribing decisions, according to the authors of a recent review.