By LIZ FREEMAN http://www.bonitanews.com Florida doctors may be getting a break with their medical malpractice insurance, an analysis by the state Office of Insurance Regulation shows. But that doesn’t necessarily mean their battle with exhorbitant premiums is over or that the state’s reputation as a hostile medical malpractice climate is in the past, according to […]

By GARDINER HARRIS NY TIMES There are bagels and fruit in the morning, sandwiches at lunch, fresh cookies in the afternoon and an occasional restaurant dinner, but many of the doctors who routinely accept these goodies from pharmaceutical sales representatives say they see sales people for the educational messages they bring, not the food. Maybe […]

Insurers in several other states cut rates or plan to keep them stable for 2008. By Amy Lynn Sorrel, AMNews staff. http://www.ama-assn.org While physicians in some states will see a break in their medical liability premiums next year, Maryland insurance officials are questioning a proposal by the state’s largest medical liability insurance carrier to issue […]

http://www.earthtimes.org OUT: managed care; frivolous liability lawsuits; paperwork and administrative hassles. IN: fair reimbursement, liability reform, respect and quality of life for surgeons. As the American College of Surgeons meets in New Orleans this week, a recent physician survey indicates these issues are on the minds of today’s general surgeons. Among approximately 240 general surgeons […]

http://www.illinois.gov SPRINGFIELD – Governor Rod R. Blagojevich today signed a law that updates and extends the Nurse Practice Act until 2018. Recognizing the increasingly large role played by nurses in providing quality healthcare, the new law clarifies the responsibilities and requirements for Advance Practice Nurses (APN), Registered Nurses (RN) and Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN). Senate […]

Baltimore Business Journal – by Sue Schultz Staff http://www.bizjournals.com/ Doctors practicing in Maryland are calling for a reduction in their medical malpractice premiums following a decision by the state’s largest medical liability insurer to give back $32.5 million in state funds that would have gone toward lowering physician’s malpractice rates. Dr. Carol Ritter, a Towson […]

By Mark Hachman http://www.pcmag.com At a gathering of healthcare providers in Washington D.C on Thursday morning, Microsoft is expected to launch HealthVault, an online repository where users can store health-related information. As the name suggests, the HealthVault site is designed to be an online, encrypted vault, where U.S. users can store and manage their health […]

By Melanie Wilkinson Staff Writer http://www.yorknewstimes.com

By LESLIE A. PAPPAS, The News Journal http://www.delawareonline.com The captive insurance specialists gathered Tuesday at the Hotel du Pont are the first to admit that most of the world does not understand what they do. “I tried to explain it the other day to my mother,” a speaker joked in the opening session of the […]