http://blog.canadianemr.ca The Canadian 2007 National Physician Survey is now available. 26.1% of physicians use a combination of Electronic and Paper charts as their record keeping system. 9.8% of physicians use Electronic Charts instead of Paper Charts. This number indicates that we still have a long way to go in order to fully enable our physician […]

http://money.cnn.com Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc. (Sedgwick CMS) announced expanded national specialty capabilities in its healthcare professional liability claims administration practice in the areas of investigations, risk management and auditing. Sedgwick CMS in its professional liability practice provides malpractice and other complex claims administration services for healthcare organizations such as hospitals, medical practice groups, extended […]

Elizabeth Fernandez, Chronicle Staff Writer http://www.sfgate.com For 10 years, Sylvia Martir has lived with HIV. A few years ago she learned she had cancer. Then diabetes. Now she’s wondering how she’ll pay for critical medical care if the governor’s proposed budget cuts are implemented. Every week Martir, an Oakland resident who lives on $736 a […]

A Fort Washington firm offers health-care clients a chance to hear what they say to one another. By Linda Loyd Inquirer Staff Writer http://www.philly.com When Zaccary Newsham-Quinn, 4, visits his pediatrician in Levittown, the doctor, Nathan Zankman, asks if he would be willing to have their conversation recorded for use in medical research. Zaccary’s mother, […]

http://www.insurancejournal.com A new study of Maryland’s physician workforce shows that the state has a growing shortage of doctors in clinical practice, and concludes it could become dire for patients, especially those in need of medical specialists. Advertisement “It is a silent crisis that grows in intensity every day,” Maryland Hospital Association President Cal Pierson said. […]

By DARLENE PRINCE http://www.crescent-news.com “Difficult” and “challenging” are two adjectives used by officials at several local medical facilities to describe efforts to recruit physicians to rural northwest Ohio. Family-practice physicians, who provide primary care to a patient, are in even shorter supply. A projected shortage of about 139,000 family practice physicians in the United States […]

By Van Allen Hearst Newspapers http://www.azstarnet.com America faces a looming health-care crisis, but the problem isn’t a lack of insurance, as most presidential candidates would have us believe. The problem is a lack of doctors. The subject of America’s ailing health-care system is high on the lists of priorities of the presidential candidates. Democrats and […]

Our take: It doesn’t take much to understand that doctors want to go where they will be treated well. Part of this is the compensation to not only cover the specialization, but to also cover what it took to get that medical degree. MD Recruitment; Towns offering money, homes to lure physicians Tom Blackwell, National […]

Patients Caught In Aetna-AMA Out-Of-Network Fight By DIANE LEVICK Courant Staff Writer Aetna and the American Medical Association are fighting about payments to doctors again, and patients across the nation are getting caught in between. The dispute centers on how much Aetna pays out-of-network doctors in some instances and the right of those doctors to […]