Carrie Vaughan, for HealthLeaders News http://www.healthleadersmedia.com Traditionally, hospital quality and patient safety have been left in the hands of the clinical staff–board members and senior executives focused more on the strategic and financial goals of the organization. However, that dynamic is no longer the case. Hospital executives and community board members are taking an increasingly […]

By Alison Snyder Long Island Business News – New York Business News In our Internet-saturated society, where consumers routinely turn to Google for information on health conditions and the doctors who treat them, a Web site could have a bottom-line impact for physicians. Kaveh Alizadeh, a plastic surgeon in a Garden City-based group practice, said […]

Five million Canadians—approximately 15 per cent of the population—don’t have a family doctor. Here, College of Family Physicians of Canada president Dr. Ruth Wilson shares tips on how these people can get themselves a physician. Kate Lunau http://www.macleans.ca Canada’s in the grip of a severe doctor shortage, and most of us know it all too […]

by Justin D. Anderson Daily Mail Capitol Reporter Lawmakers have created absurd courtroom situations by passing medical malpractice lawsuit reform, state Supreme Court Justice Larry Starcher said. “I dissent to express my hope that, in the future, the court or the Legislature will recognize the absurd and unconstitutional effects of the (reform) and either strike […]

http://www.journalpress.com In 2003 Hurricane Isabel came ripping through the Town of Colonial Beach and the town was forced to take a good look at its emergency preparedness. Among a few other things, the town discovered that it had very few medical resources within the community should adversity strike. Shortly thereafter, Dr. Richard Dunn announced that […]

http://health.cch.com/ Congress on December 19 passed legislation that will stop a 10 percent decrease in payments to physicians that was to go into effect Jan. 1, 2008, and also extends the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) until March 31, 2009. The Bush administration praised the legislation for extending the SCHIP program without raising taxes. […]

By Fili Sagapolutele in Pago Pago The American Samoa government is drafting legislation that would have LBJ Medical Center pay any malpractice suits against the hospital and the government. The legislation would also appoint a hospital committee to review the work performance of each physician and if they were involved in a malpractice lawsuit, take […]

by Barbara Kram, Editor http://www.dotmed.com The American College of Physicians has agreed to integrate its PIER (Physicians’ Information and Education Resource) content into DocSite patient registry applications and point-of-care decision support systems. The combined offering will enable physicians to review evidence-based medical content and guidelines within their normal clinical workflow. Rapid access to the latest […]

Heading into retirement, longtime local physician fears he may have been part of a vanishing species By Judy Benson http://www.theday.com For 30 years, Dr. Robert Linden has been taking care of his friends and neighbors from offices in a modest, gray ranch house on Main Street a few miles from his home in another part […]