Physician EMR use passes 50% as incentives outweigh resistance Age demographics of doctors and financial assistance to help them adopt the technology are responsible for the transition, analysts say.
Medicare about-face on end-of-life planning pay Medicare started covering voluntary advance-care counseling during annual physicals, but it rescinded the policy after only five days when the issue again proved toxic.
GOVERNMENT & MEDICINE Go to section Lawmakers settle for short-term spending measure Multiple chronic conditions target of new HHS strategy New tools focus on prevention of Medicare fraud, abuse
PROFESSIONAL ISSUES Go to section Kidney exchange program makes 1st matches In the Courts - Out-of-network ED costs fuel balance-billing disputes
OPINION Go to section Much-welcome relief from red flags rule AMA Leader Commentary - Facing shortage, we can't just pull doctors out of a hat Letters - History lesson on Nazi medicine speaks to modern times and others
BUSINESS Go to section Bringing PAs and NPs on board: What to do if you're hiring Technically Speaking - Data breaches may lurk in office copiers and printers Contract Language - Practice-vendor alliance should be put in writing
HEALTH & SCIENCE Go to section CMS requires hospitals to report bloodstream infections in ICUs
Healthy meals New law to improve school cafeteria menus
Reaching through the fog A rising tide of Alzheimer's disease
Geolocation services Have your patients put you on the map?
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