Practice Management News

Most physicians who work together with other physician colleagues — as co-owners, employees and/or independent contractors — in the same organization consider themselves as part of a physician practice.

SEATTLE — An epidemiologist whose hospital responded to a recent measles outbreak described how the hospital was able to eliminate patient exposures with an intervention bundle that used electronic medical records.

Losing eligibility for Medicaid supplemental insurance was linked to worse health care outcomes for people from underrepresented racial and ethnic populations, according to researchers.

SEATTLE — The first U.S. cluster of pediatric Candida auris cases was likely caused by shared mobile medical equipment that was not properly sanitized after being used for adult patients, an investigation found.

E-cigarette manufacturer Juul Labs must pay $462 million in the largest multistate agreement to date for the company that has been scrutinized for its advertisements and flavors that appeal to youth, according to a press release.

Today’s economic environment and market volatility have caused many DIY investors to reconsider working with professional financial advisors. Those who work with advisors also may be evaluating their advisor and investigating alternatives.

Improving the parental mental health and preschool attendance of disadvantaged children reduced socioeconomic differences in their mental health compared with nondisadvantaged peers, an Australian study found.

The mortality rate for infants born to teen parents declined more than 16% from 1996 to 2019, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

Final surveillance data released by the CDC on Tuesday confirmed that reported cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis increased between 2020 and 2021 in the United States, totaling more than 2.5 million.

A study of more than 50,000 children born over a 14-year period in Denmark found that children born to mothers who were exposed to higher levels of lithium in their drinking water were moderately more likely to develop autism.