http://home.businesswire.com SRS Software universally deployable for 70 physicians in 18 specialties Celebrating its 60th year serving the population of central Connecticut, Grove Hill Medical Center, P.C., is bringing the benefits of award-winning SRS Chart Managerâ„¢ to its doctors, staff and patients. As one of the largest independent multi-specialty health care organizations in New England, Grove […]

DAVE PARKS News staff writer http://www.al.com Dr. Drake Lavender wears many stethoscopes as a family physician practicing medicine in rural Alabama. He sees 15 to 20 patients a day at the Pickens County Family Practice Center in Gordo, then heads over to the Pickens County Medical Center in Carrollton, where he makes rounds, helps staff […]

By John Russellhttp://www.health-itworld.com Sun Microsystems director of Healthcare and Life Sciences, Joerg Schwarz, talks about the need to change financial incentives to spur Health IT adoption, describes mistakes made by the giant U.K. health-IT initiative, outlines Sun’s healthcare strategy, and provides an assessment of Sun’s performance in the race by global IT giants to help […]

Skyrocketing insurance premiums are forcing thousands of ob-gyns out of the baby business. And your doctor could be the next to go. By Jeannette Moninger http://www.parents.com Doctor Drought “I am not having my baby in this car,” thought Mattelyn Lee, a mother of two, as she tried to breathe through another contraction. Giving birth on […]

The young physicians of our 2006 Practice of the Year love to innovate By Bob Keaveney http://www.physicianspractice.com It’s not yet 8 a.m. when the calls begin and the patients start arriving. Family physician Christopher Crow has just stepped out of his office on his way to see the morning’s first patient when the buzzing of […]

Affordable technology solutions for today’s busy practices By Shelly K. Schwartz http://www.physicianspractice.com By all accounts, prescribing a drug remains one of the most inefficient processes within the doctor-patient relationship. The physician scribbles the name and dosage of a medication on a paper prescription pad. The patient then hand-delivers that piece of paper to a local […]

By Helen Oscislawski, Esq. http://www.physiciansnews.com Can physicians accept “donated” technology and services relating to electronic health records and electronic prescribing? The answer to the question is “yes.” However, the corollary question that this article aims to answer is how this can be accomplished without running afoul of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (Anti-Kickback Law) and Physician […]

By Christopher Guadagnino, Ph.D.. http://www.physiciansnews.com Interview with John Wasson, MD. John Wasson, M.D., is director of Dartmouth Medical School’s Center for the Aging, and research director for Dartmouth Northern New England Primary Care Research Network. PND: What is patient-centered collaborative care, and why is it important for physicians to practice in this way? JW: Health […]

Contract Language. By Steven M. Harris, AMNews contributor. http://www.ama-assn.org It seems as if every other call I receive these days is from a client telling me about a complaint charging his medical practice with some form of discrimination. And with that complaint often comes a claim of retaliation — that the employee who felt discriminated […]