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- Mapquest's Tommy McGloin: Bringing Health Care Online
- Tommy McGloin has likely made your life easier. As the head of MapQuest and Moviefone, he helped provide directions and movie information to millions. Now, as the head of Xoova.com, he's looking to make finding a good doctor easier for all of us. In this interview, McGloin talks about striking...
- Videos 2007-10-28
- Seven Reasons Google Health Is Overblown
- Now that Google has finally launched its long-awaited Google Health service, it's hard not to sense a kind of boredom across the blogosphere. So much has been written about the service in advance -- including a fair amount by yours truly -- that there's probably no way the real thing...
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Healthcare Roundup: Fed Step Into McKesson Case, WellCare Implicated in Medicaid Fraud, and More
- Feds intervene in McKesson whistleblower case -- The Justice Department has stepped into a private whistleblower lawsuit against medical-product supplier McKesson. The suit alleges that McKesson and nursing-home operator Golden Living defrauded Medicare through a sham supplier of durable medical equipment. [Source: Modern Healthcare] WellCare employee pleads...
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Shorter LA Times: What's Wrong With Health Insurance
- Lack the time or patience to plow through the just-concluded three-part, 5,000-word-plus LA Times series on what's wrong with the health-insurance industry? Allow me to assist with this abbreviated guide to the key ideas and data points in the series, stripped of the touching personal anecdotes, Byzantine...
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
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- When Nurses Earn More Than Doctors
- Nurses have long chafed at a perceived "status gap" with doctors, and so in that sense at least, here's some good news: Some specialist nurses now earn more than primary-care doctors. This tidbit comes to us courtesy of Merritt, Hawkins & Associates, a leading physician-recruitment firm, whose...
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Employed Doctors Are Sitting Pretty
- Well, physicians in private practice may be singing the blues, but employed doctors are doing just fine, thank you. Despite the economic downturn, in 2008 they received an average salary increase of 4.4 percent for specialists and 4 percent for primary-care physicians, according to Sullivan, Cotter and Associates' 2008 Physician...
- Blog posts 2009-01-19
- Orthopedic doctors resist disclosing consulting fees
- While medical journals and professional societies generally require doctors to disclose possible conflicts of interest--such as payments from medical devicemakers or pharmaceutical companies--some doctors are still reluctant to come clean. That's particularly so in the case of orthopedic physicians, whose relationships with devicemakers are particularly tight due to the...
- News items 2009-10-08
- Why Doctors Aren't Embracing Electronic Medical Records
- In comments to an earlier item about Aetna's "personal health record," Merrill Goozner of GoozNews asked an excellent question: "[W]hy is there so much physician opposition to EMRs?" EMR, of course, is shorthand for "electronic medical records," a main focus of the incoming Obama administration's supposed $50 billion healthcare IT...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Striking junior doctors sacked in Zimbabwe
- HARARE AFP — Sixty Zimbabwean junior doctors have been sacked from Harare's main hospital after going on strike in December demanding salary hikes, their union has chief. "About 60 doctors have received dismissal letters," Kudakwashe Nyamutukwa, president of the Hospital Doctors' Association, told AFP Wednesday. He said the...
- Research articles 2007-02-07
- Czech doctors protest conditions, threaten exodus
- PRAGUE AFP — Czech doctors and leaders of their professional bodies demonstrated here Thursday over working conditions, warning of a mass exodus abroad unless conditions improve. "Czech doctors work up to 300 hours a month and their overtime hours and emergency service often counts for half of their income,"...
- Research articles 2007-05-10
- Merck pays $3m in speaker fees to US doctors
- Merck paid more than $3m in speaker fees to US doctors during the second quarter of this year, according to figures from the company that represent a step towards greater transparency in the New Jersey-based pharmaceutical group's commercial links with prescribers. The company has provided less information, however, than Eli...
- News items 2009-10-20
- Merck reveals doctors' speaker fees after calls for transparency
- Merck paid more than $3m in speaker fees to US doctors during the second quarter of this year, according to figures from the company that represent a step towards greater transparency in the commercial links of the New Jersey-based pharmaceutical group with prescribers.The company has provided less information, however,...
- External links 2009-10-20
- Saving Lives Amidst Dangers of War and Illness; 'Doctors Without Borders: Life in the Field', New NGC Series Hosted by Sutherland
- WASHINGTON, June 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- On Wednesday, July 2 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, the National Geographic Channel NGC will premiere Doctors Without Borders: Life in the Field, a gripping new series about doctors, nurses, and a dedicated support team on the inWASHINGTON, June 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- On Wednesday,...
- Research articles 2003-06-05
- Drug Companies' Gifts to Doctors Raise Eyebrows; AARP Launches State- Wide Efforts to Educate Public, Pass Law Exposing Rx Sales Practices
- ALBANY, N.Y., April 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- With brand name drug costs soaring and the Rx industry spending billions of dollars on gifts to promote them with doctors, AARP launched a counter measure today to educate the public, doctors and lawmakers about leALBANY, N.Y., April 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- With...
- Research articles 2006-04-05
- Hospital incentive packages to woo doctors.
- Hospitals get IRS guidance on incentive packages to woo doctors. Several years ago, IRS warned tax-exempt hospitals that they could lose their tax exemptions if they offered too sweet a deal to recruit doctors. Hospitals get IRS guidance on incentive packages to woo doctors....
- Research articles 1997-05-02
- A.M. Best Comments on The Doctors Company's Acquisition of SCPIE Holdings Inc
- OLDWICK, N.J. -- A.M. Best Co. has commented that the financial strength rating FSR of A- Excellent and the issuer credit ratings ICR of "a-" of The Doctors Company Insurance Group TDCG (Napa, CA) and its members, which is led by The Doctors Company, An Interinsurance Exchange The Doctors Company,...
- Research articles 2007-10-29
- Eighty Doctors Quit Aetna U.S. Healthcare in Rhode Island.(Originated from Providence Journal-Bulletin, R.I.)
- PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Oct. 11--A group of 80 primary-care doctors has dropped out of Aetna U.S. Healthcare, raising questions about whether the Pennsylvania-based HMO meets state law -- and requiring hundreds of patients to find new doctors. PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Oct. 11--A group of 80...
- Research articles 1997-10-11
- California Medical Group Tells 590 doctors to Take Pay Cut or Lose Contracts.(Originated from The Orange County Register, Calif.)
- ORANGE, Calif.--Aug. 21--One of Orange County's largest doctors groups is telling its doctors to accept a pay cut or lose their business. ORANGE, Calif.--Aug. 21--One of Orange County's largest doctors groups is telling its doctors to accept a pay cut or...
- Research articles 1997-08-21
- Kaiser Permanente Switches Doctors to Performance-Based Pay Scale.(Originated from Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.)
- Dec. 18--Three months after approving a longer work week for its doctors, the Permanente Medical Group is changing the way its doctors are paid from a seniority-driven method to one based on performance. Dec. 18--Three months after approving a longer work week...
- Research articles 1996-12-18
- Physicians Sue Orange, Calif., Doctors Group.(Originated from The Orange County Register, Calif.)
- ORANGE, Calif.--Aug. 27--A group of 30 doctors sued St. Joseph Medical Corp. on Monday, accusing one of the county's largest doctors groups of trying to strip away their medical practices. ORANGE, Calif.--Aug. 27--A group of 30 doctors sued St. Joseph Medical...
- Research articles 1997-08-27
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