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Issue Date: November 15, 2000
Physicians Find Quality CME on CDs and Online
This article discusses the benefits of online continuing medical education (such as convenience) as well as the disadvantages (such as the lack of interactivity with colleagues and faculty).
Readers Offer Insight Into Dr. Solomon’s Dilemma
This editorial quotes from letters from readers in response to an earlier editorial concerning the impact managed care is having on how physicians practice medicine.
Practice Built on Patient Satisfaction
This article describes how a 24-physician practice in Akron, Ohio, has built its reputation on, and attributes its success to, an unrelenting focus on patient satisfaction.
States Using Episodes for Analysis
This article discusses how recent technological advances have boosted the power of the episodes of care managed care model, enabling payers to measure the performance of health care networks more effectively than ever before.
OIG Issues Final Compliance Rules
This article discusses the final instructions for voluntary compliance programs issued by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General. It points out how physicians can seek to identify areas in which they are at risk for noncompliance and corrective measures they can take to control that risk.
Consultant Outlines Seven Lessons for Physician-Hospital-Owned Health Plans
This interview discusses strategic factors that cause physician-hospital health plans to fail and suggests ways physicians can avoid such pitfalls.
HIPAA Raises Patient Privacy Issues
All practices must be fully compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act by year-end 2002. This article discusses how HIPAA affects the use of patient information and suggests steps physicians can take to comply with the new regulations.
Study Reveals Overuse, Underuse of Antibiotics for Heart Patients
This article discusses the findings of a study on the use antibiotic preventive therapy for patients at risk for endocarditis. In particular, it points out the variations in practice patterns among cardiologists treating this condition and the issues involved.
Physicians Build Practices by Adding Female Urologists
This article discusses the steadily increasing number of female physicians who are choosing to specialize in urology--an area of medicine historically dominated by male physicians.
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