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Medicare at 50: Physicians brace for transition to value-based payment
As Medicare celebrates its 50th anniversary, federal officials are beginning one of the most significant shifts in the program’s history – paying physicians based on quality and efficiency rather than for the volume of services they provide. The shift to…
Reduced resident duty hours haven’t changed patient outcomes
Patient mortality and morbidity outcomes have not changed since the most recent round of reforms to medical residents’ duty hours in 2011, according to two of the first nationwide studies to assess these “improvements,” which both were published online Dec.…
Five reasons physicians will use mobile health for patient care
Mobile health technologies will become a part of the health care landscape for all stakeholders at some point. Other sectors of society currently cannot function without mobile; for example, retail and financial services consider mobile a vital component of their…