By Paul Feinberg http://www.exduco.net Dr. Raphael Darvish (’04) is medical director of Concierge Medicine/LA, a VIP medical practice designed to offer patients “the best of the best” care without medical insurance hassles. Darvish, a fourth-generation physician (his father is a partner in Concierge Medicine/LA), created the practice after receiving his MBA and completing his medical […]

http://www.earthtimes.org/ Waiting Room Solutions today announced that Version 3 of its next generation hosted EMR & Practice Management Solution has been awarded second honors at the TEPR awards in the Personal Health Record Category. The TEPR awards are presented by the Medical Records Institute for outstanding healthcare solutions. “We are pleased to be awarded second […]

By Camille Hughes Guard Staff Writer http://www.guardonline.com Holding a police radio in a hand that’s more accustomed to the cool metal of a stethoscope, local physician Doug Bernard has officially become a “SWAT doc.â€? While a career in medicine might be enough to keep most people busy, Bernard is definitely not “mostâ€? people. The 43-year […]

The Insurance professionals only source for News Premier Physicians Insurance Company (PPIC), a Risk Retention Group, celebrates its one-year anniversary with several achievements in its mission to provide Nevada physicians with stabilized medical malpractice liability insurance. In one year, the company has insured more than 100 physicians. PPIC has surpassed $2.5 million in capital and […]

http://www.industryweek.com By Michael Keating, Senior Research Editor, Expansion Management Healthcare costs are still keeping executives awake at night. Healthcare will be the greatest source of cost pressure on companies for the first half of 2007, say more than half of the CEOs polled in the Business Roundtable’s latest Economic Outlook Survey. Healthcare spending, estimates the […]

http://www.earthtimes.org Every hour five babies are born prematurely. With the rise in women giving birth later in life, the use of assisted reproductive technology escalates-as does the percentage of newborn babies born high-risk. Dr. Edith McCarthy, a leading Manhattan-based physician certified in both Pediatric Medicine and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, is changing the face of pediatric care […]

The Insurance professionals only source for News The medical malpractice insurance sector for years has been viewed as an industry in crisis. In 2001, the crisis heightened when St. Paul Cos., the nation’s leading medical malpractice insurer, exited the market, leaving more than $583 million of malpractice premium in search of a new home. During […]

A New Haven Register Editorial http://www.nhregister.com Cost in insurance settlements should be incentive for greater emphasis on safety. Thanks to a law passed by the legislature in 2005, lawmakers now have some concrete numbers if it wishes to ever revisit that year’s bruising debate on medical malpractice insurance. Part of the law requires that insurance […]

By Associated Press http://business.bostonherald.com/ An Indiana insurance company that raised medical malpractice rates 90 percent three years ago is now asking Connecticut regulators for permission to cut them by 24 percent. Doctors say they don’t expect much change even if regulators approve the request from the company, one of just four that provides medical malpractice […]