http://www.marketwatch.com RALEIGH, N.C., Sep 30, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — DocSite, the leader in patient registries and point-of-care decision support services to the healthcare market, today announced the Texas Medical Association (TMA) is offering DocSite PQRI(TM) as a free membership benefit to physicians participating in Medicare’s Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI.) The TMA is the first […]

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By Kevin Pho http://blogs.usatoday.com Despite the fact that we can complete our taxes and perform complex financial transactions digitally over the Internet, medical records have faced an impasse preventing a transition to the digital age. Patient charts are still paper-based in most doctors’ offices across the country. President Bush’s goal was for every American to […]

by Justin D. Anderson http://www.dailymail.com CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Recent reports show laws passed five years ago to deal with a medical malpractice crisis have had a dramatically beneficial effect.But a legislator who’s also executive director of the West Virginia Medical Association said the state is “one Supreme Court decision away” from being thrust back into the […]

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Dave Alexander http://blog.mlive.com GRAND RAPIDS — The West Michigan regional economy has been defined by the lumber, furniture and manufacturing industries during the past century and half. Over the next half-century, West Michigan’s economy might be led by health care and the life sciences, a panel of industry leaders told a recent business policy conference.

Home Sep 28, 2008 (The Times-Tribune – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) — WMT | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating — Lackawanna County has a serious shortage of general surgeons that is causing patients to wait up to nine weeks for operations or go out of the area for treatment. Wait times to […]

by Dennis G. Smith http://www.heritage.org Congress needs to get serious about Medicaid. To borrow a medical analogy: If a state is the patient, and Congress is its doctor, giving states a temporary increase in the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) to treat the problems associated with Medicaid is malpractice. Medicaid needs surgery, and increasing the […]