http://www.onmedica.net Sir Jonathan Michael, former chief executive of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, will chair the independent inquiry into access to healthcare for people with learning disabilities. The inquiry follows charity Mencap’s report Death by Indifference published in March into the deaths of six people with learning disabilities. Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt, announced […]

By Laura H. Kahn Home One of the greatest challenges facing health care is figuring out how to assess the worth of thoughts. It is far easier to put a monetary value on a specific task such as a colonoscopy or cardiac catheterization than on the nebulous efforts of thinking and talking. This difference is […]

http://www.earthtimes.org Cancer Clinics of Excellence(TM) (CCE) today announced that it has launched with the goal of bringing together community-based oncologists to provide high-quality, cost-effective, best-in-class care for cancer patients. Established in April, CCE is one of the largest physician focused oncology services companies in the United States, with 224 medical oncologists at 21 practices in […]

Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology by Society of Nuclear Medicine Martha Pickett, MHSA, CNMT, Chair, SNMTS Advanced Practice Task Force One of the most exciting career advancement opportunities in recent times has been the development of the advanced practice career track for nuclear medicine technologists. The office at the university where I work receives several […]

By Charis Patires/Lake Sun http://www.lakesunleader.com LAKE OF THE OZARKS – Patients may remember M.R. Pete Hayden as a caring physician, one with the knowledge and skill to cure their ailments. Add one more acknowledgement to his resume. He was recently honored with the Citation of Merit, the highest honor bestowed by the University of Missouri […]

Foreign-born physicians filling a need in Delaware By LULADEY B. TADESSE, The News Journal http://www.delawareonline.com/ Dr. Isaias Irgau fled Ethiopia at the age of 16, soon after the government shot and killed his father in front of his home. His father was a victim of the civil war in northern Ethiopia, which lasted more than […]

http://emradvice.wordpress.com Like a recurring dream about having to take a test they didn’t study for, some physicians view the idea of patients with electronic personal-health records as their own personal nightmare. Visions of patients handing over a computer disk containing years’ worth of blood-pressure readings taken every four hours along with random recollections of rashes […]

By Richard C. Gross, Contributing Writer Health Behavior News Service http://www.hbns.org Caps on medical malpractice damages mean lower insurance premiums for doctors, according to a new review from two Alabama universities. How these caps affect patient care or costs is less certain. “There’s been substantial controversy over whether caps do what they’re supposed to — […]

Novant’s New Star will offer them better control of malpractice-insurance premiums By M. Paul Jackson JOURNAL REPORTER Novant Health said yesterday that it has formed a medical-malpractice-insurance company to help its physicians better control their medical-malpractice premiums. The company, New Star Inc., will be based in Winston-Salem and will serve Novant’s doctors in North Carolina […]