The following whitepapers have been made available to readers of Becker’s Spine Review. Title: How Evidence-Based Medicine Drives Decision-Making in Healthcare Source: Paradigm Spine Evidence-based medicine has a huge affect on healthcare today from patient and provider decision-making to…
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Nationally in 2012, there were 260.5 active physicians per 100,000 people, according to new data released by the Association of American Medical Colleges in its 2013 State Physician Workforce Data Book.
During the first month of open enrollment, 106,185 people completed applications and selected a marketplace health plan through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act exchanges, according to an HHS report.
Given the extent of its software problems, the federal health insurance exchange website, HealthCare.gov, probably won't be fully functional by the end of this month, an official with knowledge of the project told The Washington Post.
Insurers and providers partnered to form the following eight accountable care organizations or value-based care delivery arrangements within the past month, beginning with those most recently covered by Becker's Hospital Review.
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In his conversations with patients, Gary Friestad, corporate registration manager at Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health, has found many people's greatest source of dread when entering a hospital isn't what's about to happen to them medically but the stress they are…
Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine announced that L. Scott Levin, MD, has received the Sir John Charnley, MD, Award from The Arthritis Foundation.
Gloria Beim, MD, of Alpine Surgery Center in Colorado, was named chief medical officer for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
Steven Meier, MD, a medical director of the Knee Surgery Center of Excellence, a division of La Peer Health Systems in Beverly Hills, performed the first DeNovo NT Natural Tissue Graft at the center.
William Jarvis, MD, board-certified orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine physician, has joined the medical staff of Powell (Wyo.) Valley Healthcare, according to a Powell Tribune report.