Insurer-Physician Collaboration Improves Quality of Care, Patient Compliance, and Lowers Costs NEWARK and EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J., — A first-in-the-nation, ground breaking pilot program has produced empirical data demonstrating the effectiveness of the Patient Centered Medical Home (PC-MH), a concept of care that facilitates partnerships between individual patients and their personal physicians and — when appropriate […]

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor http://features.us.reuters.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Dr. Howard Stark’s office is quiet. Very quiet. No patients sit in his waiting room. No receptionist answers the telephone. Stark does not have a receptionist. Instead, he and his assistant Michele Norris-Bell check e-mail alerts on handheld devices and — between seeing patients […]

TOM FEASBY Globe and Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com Canada has a serious shortage of doctors: A 2007 poll by the College of Family Physicians of Canada showed that as many as five million Canadians may have no family doctor; the Canadian Medical Association estimates Canada may be short up to 5,000 family doctors. Proposed solutions include reducing […]

http://www.arabtimesonline.com KUWAIT : Around 40 to 45 medical malpractice cases were filed against some doctors assigned at the Ministry of Health, reliable sources told Al-Jareeda indicating the Ministry won in most of these cases. The committee on the insurance to protect doctors in medical malpractice cases has agreed to send a delegation to Saudi Arabia, […]

Doctors branch out into cosmetic medicine Sofia Kosmetatos / The Detroit News When Lynn Montemayor wanted sunspots on her nose removed this year, she turned to her obstetrician-gynecologist. Ditto for microdermabrasion to rejuvenate her skin, and for Restylane injections to fill out smile lines. It didn’t matter to Montemayor that her doctor wasn’t a skin […]

http://www.dcmedmalblog.com Hundreds of thousands of children in the U.S. face the prospect of a life-threatening asthma attack at a time when they have no health insurance, according to a new study recently published in the journal Ambulatory Pediatrics. Researchers utilized data collected in 2003 and 2004 at the National Center for Health Statistics and determined […]

by: Bobby Shuttleworth http://www.waff.com The state’s free clinics may be getting help from state Senator Arthur Orr. He’s pushing a bill that would let retired doctors practice medicine, while the state pays for their malpractice insurance. This measure will benefit both doctor’s and patients.

By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter http://www.washingtonpost.com A co-pay as small as $10 can stand in the way of a woman getting a potentially lifesaving mammography, new research suggests. When women in Medicare managed-care plans were asked to contribute a small co-pay, in some cases around $10 to $20, 8 percent of the women decided to […]

http://www.democratandchronicle.com The worsening problem of physician shortages in the Rochester region and upstate finally is prompting solutions. Gov. Spitzer has a good plan to help new doctors pay their schooling debts if they open their practices in underserved areas. And locally, the region’s largest provider and largest insurer, with the vital intervention of the Rochester […]