Practice Management News

Most patients with all-cause and norovirus-associated acute gastroenteritis have only one health care encounter, primarily in the outpatient setting, researchers found in a study.

“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.”

Artificial intelligence has emerged as a potentially important tool for patient care, including in infectious diseases.

The number one financial goal for most physicians is getting to a comfortable retirement on their own timeline and with the lifestyle they want.

The role of serologic testing for SARS-CoV-2 has evolved during the pandemic, leading the Infectious Diseases Society of America to update its guidance.

According to published results, industry payment distributions may be skewed by the 0.1% of physicians in each specialty who were paid more than $1 million from 2013 to 2022.

Reported rates of Candida auris screening at facilities across the U.S. were low despite many facilities that conducted screening reporting at least one case of C. auris in the last year, according to survey results.

In our last post, we saw how rollover equity fits into the overall consideration paid to a selling physician owner of a physician practice.

Universal screening using pooled saliva PCR testing helped identify dozens of newborns with congenital cytomegalovirus at two hospitals in Israel, more than half of whom were asymptomatic, according to findings published in Nature Medicine.

Cases of norovirus have risen across the United States, although symptom-based care and proper hygiene can help treat and prevent the spread of the disease, an expert said.