The World Health Organization has released the second edition of its handbook on healthcare waste management, known as "the Blue Book."
Practice Management
Hospitals in St. Louis-based Ascension Health implement infection prevention practices differently, according to a study in the American Journal of Infection Control.
Seventy-one percent of physicians believe that financial incentives would work best with consumers to motivate them to engage in healthy behaviors, according to Deloitte's 2013 Survey of U.S. Physicians.
In a VentureBeat Health News report, Tomer Shoval, co-founder and CEO of medical bill tracking service, Simplee, discusses three reasons why mobile billing and payments in the healthcare industry will grow in 2013.
In a Medscape Today report, Elizabeth Woodcock, founder and principal of Woodcock & Associates, which focuses on medical group operations and revenue cycle management, lays out four benefits that ICD-10 may offer for physicians.
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An overwhelming majority of physicians reported that patients either did not know about their medical malpractice lawsuit or did not mention it if they did know, according to Medscape's Malpractice Report, released in 2013.
Physicians are trying to find a balance between transparency and what some consider cumbersome paperwork under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, according to a Kaiser Health News report.
In a KevinMD blog post, Karen S. Sibert, MD, an associate professor of anesthesiology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, lays out five reasons why physicians are stressed, leading to higher rates of physician burnout.
Physicians currently working in an accountable care organization differ from those who are not a part of an ACO in their views on capitation, bundled payments and Medicaid reimbursements, according to Deloitte's 2013 Survey of U.S. Physicians.
In a KevinMD blog post, Shirie Leng, MD, an anesthesiologist, discusses the lack of trust that physicians and patients have in each other.