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http://www.ama-assn.org The Association’s agenda for the coming year focuses on health care’s regulatory environment, clinical excellence, public health, physician practice viability, professionalism and education, and a sustainable AMA. The House of Delegates Interim Meeting is held in November, a natural time to announce plans for the year ahead. In that regard, the AMA’s annual Strategic […]

http://www.marketwatch.com PASADENA, Calif., Nov 20, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Kaiser Permanente received the most stars in the just released HMO Quality Report from the California Office of the Patient Advocate (OPA). Kaiser Permanente’s Southern California Region and Northern California Region each received seven of eight possible stars in the report — more than any other […]

By Kay Lazar As a phalanx of sign-carrying mothers rallied outside, their babies bundled against the earlymorning cold, Beverly Hospital trustees yesterday backed down from a plan to cease deliveries at the hospital’s natural birthing center, one of only two such facilities in the state. In a four-sentence statement from Northeast Health System, which owns […]

By Claire Cain Miller http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com American Well aims to reinvent the house call. If Roy Schoenberg, the start-up’s co-founder and chief executive, has his way, patients will no longer have to wait a month to see a doctor for an urgent sore throat, wait all day for a doctor to return their call or leave […]

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Kay Lazar, Globe Staff The fear of being sued is driving Massachusetts physicians to order many tests, procedures, referrals to specialists and even hospitalizations for consumers that aren’t needed and drive up health costs by more than $1.4 billion a year, according to a new study that is the first of its kind. The Massachusetts […]

Thomas Bodenheimer, M.D. http://content.nejm.org The editors asked several experts to share their perspectives on the crisis in U.S. primary care. Their articles, which address this crisis from six different angles, follow. We also brought the five U.S. contributors together for a roundtable discussion of the problems and potential solutions for training, practice, compensation, and systemic […]

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