Practice Management News

Clinicians could benefit significantly if medical institutions began billing patients for electronic messages; however, ethical implications of the practice, which include erecting another potential barrier to care, complicate the issue.

A Florida hospital doubled the size of its infection prevention staff over a 4-year period and saw a substantial decrease in hospital-related infections, researchers reported at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology annual meeting.

Bloomberg Philanthropies announced that it has donated $1 billion to make Johns Hopkins University’s medical school free for most of its students seeking an MD.

In the United States, 41,116 people died by suicide in 2021, making suicides the leading type of violent death that year, MMWR data showed.

Installation of a stethoscope disinfection device improved hand hygiene compliance among health care workers at an urgent care clinic and ED, researchers reported.

Nearly half of U.S. counties lack cardiologists, almost all of which are rural, with lower household income and higher prevalence of CV risk factors, according to a research letter published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Like many sports, such as soccer and basketball, financial independence requires simultaneous offense and defense. One of the most important defensive plays a physician must make is buying disability insurance.

De-escalation of beta-lactam antibiotics was associated with a decreased risk of new resistance development compared with no change in beta-lactam antibiotic use, researchers found.

Only about half of gay or bisexual men received recommended sexually transmitted infection testing at their initial visit to a private, outpatient facility, researchers reported.

A new policy statement from the AAP provides guidance on how to help youth with intellectual or developmental disabilities transition to adult care.