Associated Press http://www.insurancejournal.com The Big Island of Hawaii will soon lose three orthopedic surgeons, leaving the island with only one full-time and one part-time bone surgeon, and none in West Hawaii. Dr. Doug Hiller, president-elect of the Hawaii Medical Association, is among the doctors who are leaving for various reasons, including low insurance reimbursements.

http://www.ama-assn.org Pa. physicians call for medical liability relief Pennsylvania physicians rallied at the state’s Capitol in September urging lawmakers to preserve medical liability insurance relief to avoid access-to-care shortages. The Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error program covers at least 50% of doctors’ required $1 million coverage, in exchange for the physicians committing to […]

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Zack Phillips http://www.businessinsurance.com One of out six liability claims against health care entities is associated with infections, injuries and other conditions acquired at the hospital, according to a new report. The 2008 Hospital Professional Liability and Physician Liability Benchmark Analysis, released Monday, found that hospital-acquired infections, hospital-acquired injuries, objects left in the body after surgery […]

San Antonio Business Journal http://www.bizjournals.com Central Physician Solutions Inc. is entering San Antonio’s medical billing market. The company opened a new office at 1380 Pantheon Gardens in order to specifically help area podiatrists with claims processing, medical billing and practice management. The niche market of podiatry is often overlooked by many medical billing providers, company […]

http://www.marketwatch.com RALEIGH, N.C., Sep 30, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — DocSite, the leader in patient registries and point-of-care decision support services to the healthcare market, today announced the Texas Medical Association (TMA) is offering DocSite PQRI(TM) as a free membership benefit to physicians participating in Medicare’s Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI.) The TMA is the first […]

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By Kevin Pho http://blogs.usatoday.com Despite the fact that we can complete our taxes and perform complex financial transactions digitally over the Internet, medical records have faced an impasse preventing a transition to the digital age. Patient charts are still paper-based in most doctors’ offices across the country. President Bush’s goal was for every American to […]