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Each summer, teaching hospitals undergo a transformation as a team of experienced residents leave and are replaced by trainees fresh out of medical school. Some view this as a time of peril for patients—commonly referred to as “the July...
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A lack of clear rules governing providers that perform advanced-imaging scans could undermine the federal goal of limiting Medicare patients' exposure to radiation.
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They walked into the program as physicians, nurses, social workers, psychologists, administrators, consultants and naturopaths. And the 112 who passed the subsequent exam walked out as certified patient-centered medical home content experts—and now carry the credibility, marketability and...
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URAC, a Washington-based healthcare measurement and accreditation organization, has named Kylanne Green president and CEO, effective July 22. Green succeeds Alan Spielman, who left his post Feb. 15 after serving as president and CEO since 2005.
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As the U.S. faces a shortage of physicians—potentially more than 90,000 by 2020—medical schools are seeking to counteract the deficiency with higher enrollments.
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The nation's largest hospital accreditation organization has issued a warning to hospitals about the dangers of alarm fatigue, which can occur when clinicians become desensitized to the incessant beeping of medical device alarms.
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Limiting first-year medical residents to a 16-hour work shift was intended to improve patient safety while enhancing the educational experience, but two studies suggest the opposite may be occurring.
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Specialists and medical societies are cheering the launch of a medical-home-type recognition program for specialty practices, an option they say will extend the emphasis on care coordination outside of primary care and ease communication among providers.
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Participants are praising a National Cancer Institute-funded initiative's impact on disparities and outcomes.
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Since 1985, residency programs have had the option to be dual-accredited by both M.D. and D.O. organizations. In 2015, all D.O. and M.D. programs will be accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, eliminating any legal or licensing distinction between the two.
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