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Phoenix Mayoral Debate, September 20, 2011; Candidates Will Discuss Downtown Economy at UA College of Medicine in Phoenix
| | Downtown Phoenix issues will be the focus of the September 20, 2011 Mayoral debate at The University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix.
Candidates Wes Gullett and Greg Stanton will face off at 6:30 p.m. in the Virginia G. Piper Auditorium on the campus of the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix, 600 E. Van Buren Street. The debate will be conducted before a community panel, moderated by Kimber Lanning, Director of Local First Arizona, and will focus on issues facing the development of downtown Phoenix, particularly economic concerns. Read More... |
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CMS Issues Final Rule on E-Prescribing
| | Doctors now have an extra month to apply for a hardship waiver to avoid being penalized for not adopting electronic prescribing in their practices, according to a final rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Physicians who use a qualified e-prescribing system are eligible for an additional 1% in Medicare Part B payments in 2011 and 2012, and a 0.5% increase in 2013. Providers who fail to complete at least 10 paperless prescriptions using a qualified e-prescribing system between Jan. 1 and June 30, 2011, will receive a 1% cut in Medicare reimbursements in 2012, a 1.5% cut in 2013, and a 2% cut in 2014.
In a proposed rule from May, CMS said doctors who are unable to e-prescribe should apply for a "hardship exemption" before Oct. 1. In the final rule issued Sept. 1, CMS announced doctors now have until Nov. 1 to apply for an exemption. Read More...
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Half of Internal Medicine Residents Report Burnout
| | Despite limitations placed on the number of hours medical residents spend working, more than half of internists in training exhibit signs of burnout and suboptimal quality of life, according to a large study of workforce stress from the Mayo Clinic.
Overall burnout and high levels of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization were reported by 8,343 of 16,192 students responding, or 51.5%.
In fact, quality of life was described as being "as bad as it can be" or "somewhat bad" by 14.8%, and 28.4% described it as "neutral." Only 15.3% described it "as good as it can be," while another 41.5% said it was "somewhat good."
The report collected information on internal medicine residents who took the Internal Medicine In-Training Examination or IM-ITE survey during the 2008-2009 academic year. Results are published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association's special theme issue on medical education. Read More...
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Medical Practices Work on Ways to Serve Patients and Bottom Line
| | They do not teach business in medical school. When doctors go into private practice, they learn about profits and losses on the job, in a complex industry that is subject to large-scale forces beyond the control of most individuals.
"Overhead continues to go up, but your ability to raise prices is very limited," said Dr. J. Fred Ralston Jr., past president of the American College of Physicians and an internist with Fayetteville Medical Associates, a group practice in Tennessee that recently marked its 100th anniversary. "Never in that time - which included the 1918 flu epidemic, two world wars and at least one depression - have we been as challenged as we are now in the changing world of healthcare."
Given fixed Medicare payments and nonnegotiable managed care contracts, it is difficult to move the dial on revenue. So physicians looking to maintain profits often turn to controlling costs. Based on interviews with business-minded doctors, a medical practice can become a cost-efficient machine if managers control human resource expenses, spread out fixed costs as much as possible, exploit information technology and carefully track business metrics. Read More... |
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JDRF - Walk to Cure Diabetes
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A Message from Drs. Marie Pavese and Teresa Pavese:
We as physicians in the Maricopa County Medical Society are joined with a common goal to treat illness and disease to better mankind. We can
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Dr. Richard Pavese
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make a difference now in a big way. In unity there is strength.
Join us on the anniversary of our brother and colleague's death as we honor the memory of Dr. Richard Pavese by walking the annual 5K walk for the cure of diabetes, with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, to fund research to cure diabetes once again this year.
His niece Christina Abrams continues to head the JDRF walk, as captain of the team, JACKIE'S JOGGERS, in honor of her grandmother, the late Jackie Pavese, and her uncle and godfather, the late Richard Pavese, MD on November 5, 2011 at Wet N Wild in Phoenix. Read more...
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SimonMed and Cox Business Bring Breast Tomosynthesis to Valley
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SimonMed and Cox Business have partnered to make a new, diagnostically superior, FDA-approved mammogram called tomosynthesis available to patients in the Valley and across the state at the same cost as a traditional digital mammogram. This is the first dedicated outpatient offering of breast tomosynthesis in Arizona and it is offered at SimonMed's Fashion Square office in Scottsdale.
Sub-specialty trained radiologists at SimonMed can now see the breast through multi-slice images with:
- Increased diagnostic accuracy in breast cancer detection.
- Reduced anxiety and less need for additional scans.
- Faster results for patient.
"Tomosynthesis is the next generation of digital mammography that acquires three-dimensional images of a stationary compressed breast. It's a revolutionary technology for a serious problem," says Dr. John Simon, founder of SimonMed describing tomosynthesis adding, "Patients don't always realize they have a choice when it comes to radiology centers and we offer superior technology."
Views of a breast with standard digital mammography are compromised due to shadows and tissue covering suspicious masses.
Tomosynthesis provides additional detail showing anatomic images that do not appear on a normal mammogram. More accurate imaging for patients and their physicians reduces the need for additional scans and decreases patient anxiety. Read More...
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Adjusting, More MD's Add MBA
| | Under heavy pressure from government regulators and insurance companies, more and more physicians across the country are learning to think like entrepreneurs.
"As recently as the late 1990s, there were only five or six joint MD/MBA degree programs at the nation's universities," said Dr. Maria Y. Chandler, a pediatrician with an MBA who is an associate clinical professor in the medical and business schools at the University of California, Irvine. "Now there are 65," she said.
Mark V. Pauly, a longtime leader of the healthcare management program at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, said, "A light bulb went off and they realize that healthcare is a business."
Dr. James S. Kuo, 47, said he was a third-year medical student at Penn when he decided to go to business school, too. After receiving his MD and master of business administration degrees, he jumped to a Wall Street job with a large healthcare venture capital firm. Read More...
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Physicians Needed for ACT Health Fair
| | The annual ACT Kids Health Fair serves at-risk children who are eligible for metropolitan Phoenix Head Start programs, but lack appropriate medical clearances.
This all-volunteer event addresses the full spectrum of health requirements: transportation to and from the children's neighborhoods; all appropriate medical screenings and immunizations; establishing and updating medical records; and arranging emergency or continuing care as needed. Over 20,000 children have been screened to date. Read More...
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