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MAG backing effort to collect one million signatures to promote "rational" Medicare system MAG Share     The Medical Association of Georgia is promoting a nationwide effort to collect one million signatures from physicians and patients calling for a "rational" Medicare physician payment system to ensure that seniors and TRICARE program beneficiaries continue to have access to care in their hour of need, according to MAG President Gary C. Richter, M.D. More MAG CEO AJC OP-ED: Gathering clouds over health care The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Share
Shortly after he passed his new health care reform bill into law, President Barack Obama poked the measure's critics with a sharp stick by pointing out that the day had come and gone without a single asteroid smashing into planet Earth. Yes, he proclaimed, the birds were still chirping. People were still strolling down the street. And, he assured, "People still have their doctors." More
Medical College of Georgia expands, moves beyond Augusta The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Share
Is there a doctor in the house? In Georgia, soon that will become less of a worry. Through expansion of the Medical College of Georgia, more physicians will be working statewide in hospitals, rural communities and other high-need areas. More 56 percent support repeal of health care law Rasmussen Reports Share
Support for repeal of the recently-passed national health care plan is proving to be just as consistent as opposition to the plan before it was passed. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56 percent of likely voters nationwide favor repeal, while 41 percent are opposed. More  Doc pay cut delay reverses stimulus law perception Modern Healthcare Share
The legislation signed into law last week by President Barack Obama putting the annual Band-Aid on the Medicare physician sustainable growth-rate formula also attempted to fix a glitch in the electronic health-record system subsidy program for physicians under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the stimulus law. The new law effectively reverses an interpretation of the stimulus law by the CMS in a rule it issued in December that made many hospital-based physicians ineligible for federal electronic health-record subsidy payments under the stimulus law. More Doctors pursue House, Senate seats USA TODAY Share
In an election year dominated by health care, dozens of candidates for Congress have a catchy campaign slogan at their disposal: Send a doctor to the House. Forty-seven physicians -- 41 Republicans and six Democrats -- are running for the House or Senate this year, three times the number of doctors serving in Congress today, according to a USA TODAY review. More Doctors hear many questions about health law The New York Times Share
Dr. Roger W. Evans, a cardiologist in Wichita, Kan., is used to answering patients' questions about their hearts. But lately, he said, he has spent half his time answering a succession of different questions -- about the health care law. More
Doctors and patients, lost in paperwork The New York Times Share
In "The Hostile Hospital," from the Lemony Snicket "Series of Unfortunate Events" books, the three young orphans at the center of the story visit the fictitious Heimlich Hospital, where Babs, the head of human resources, asks them if they know what the most important work done in a hospital is. "Healing sick people?" one of the children asks innocently. "You're wrong," Babs growls, silencing the children. "The most important thing we do at the hospital," she continues without flinching, "is paperwork." More Karen M. Bell, M.D., is new chair of CCHIT Certification Commission for Health Information Technology Share
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology announced the appointment of Karen M. Bell, M.D., as chair of CCHIT, effective April 26. Bell, most recently senior vice president, Health Information Technology Services, Masspro, replaces retiring chair Mark Leavitt, M.D., Ph.D., who led the Commission since its inception in 2004. More
With the iPad, Apple may just revolutionize medicine The Washington Post Share
Steve Jobs got a new liver, the rest of us got an easier way to watch Hulu in bed, and the health-care industry just may have gotten the big break it needed to launch into the 21st century. Following his hush-hush surgery last spring, it's easy to imagine the colossus of Cupertino, Calif., staring at the ceiling tiles in his hospital room and wishing for a way to hop online without having to bother with a laptop. More Scientists develop "melting" brain implant DailyTech Share
There are a number of conditions where monitoring the brain and its functions are very important. For example, monitoring the brain of an epileptic patient allows doctors and electronic equipment see the beginning of a seizure and administer electric shocks to stop the seizure from happening. The problem with this type of monitoring with technology today is that it requires the insertion of thin wires into the brain of a patient and the silicon circuits used to capture the signals sent from the electrodes are not flexible and won't conform to the brain's surface. More |
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