Patients Approve of Telemedicine Consultations for Postoperative Care
A survey shows more than 60% would accept virtual visits even after the pandemic subsides.
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Curbing Inherent Bias When Caring for Patients
Bias extends beyond skin color to the assumptions physicians might make about patients.
Address Possible Pandemic-Related Security Lapses
To accommodate patients remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, practices may have expanded personnel access to protected health information and relied on devices that might be vulnerable to cyber attacks.
Female Doctors Less Likely to Be Promoted to Upper Faculty Ranks
Women physicians in academic medical centers are less likely than men to be promoted to upper faculty ranks.
More Ophthalmologists Are Exclusively Focusing On Cataract Surgery
Concentrating more on cataract surgery increases the chances of patients receiving fragmented care, according to study.
Pandemic Taking Toll on the Mental Health of Health Care Staff
Mental health disorders are common in health care workers during and immediately following a pandemic.
Modest Increase in Patient Visits Could Offset Costs of Scribes
For all specialties, modest increases in patient visits per day would recover the costs of implementing medical scribes.
ACA Lowered Out-of-Pocket Costs for Low-Income Families
Low- and middle-income families experienced a larger reduction in out-of-pocket costs after initiation of the ACA than higher-income families.
ACS: Virtual Postoperative Care More Efficient With High Satisfaction
The amount of time spent with a provider is similar for postoperative follow-up visits performed with either an in-person visit or virtual visit.
Female fellows face training biases
Operating room experience is inconsistent between male and female trainees, and who is selected to perform surgery is prone to sex bias, according to the authors of a new study.
Why Emergency Ophthalmic Patients Don't Follow Up
Most patients with ophthalmic emergencies are lost to follow up. Research pinpointed economics, age and wait times as potential explanations.
What to Do When Vendors Fail
NRC Health, a software and patient satisfaction survey provider holding data from more than 25 million patients, was locked out of its computer system in February because of a ransomware attack.
Getting Patients to Pay Their Bills
By connecting on a personal level, medical practices may have better results in getting patients to settle their accounts.
Back to Basics: Focus on Risk Assessments for HIPAA Compliance
Regardless of the challenges a smaller group might have, a risk assessment is a baseline for any HIPAA program. The cost of this assessment is considerably less than a HIPAA fine.
Keeping Health Information Secure in the Cloud
Putting information in the cloud can be a good move for a physician’s practice — but only if done well.
Apologies, Properly Made, Go Far in Maintaining Doctor-Patient Relationships
From an ethical perspective, disclosing adverse events to patients is predicated on the idea that physicians have obligations to tell the truth, but physicians may worry that apologizing will incur greater responsibility for liability.
Protecting Practices From Ransomware
Hackers have penetrated healthcare providers’ computer systems to encrypt information and demand money for its release.
Helping Patients Quit Smoking: A Road Map for Clinicians
Successful smoking cessation involves a 2-pronged approach, since there are 2 components to smoking – physiological and behavioral, according to Nervana Elkhadragy, PharmD, MS, TTS, of Purdue University, College of Pharmacy, Indianapolis.
Off-Label Prescribing During COVID-19 Pandemic
Meeting public demand for an urgently needed effective medication quickly and safely during a pandemic involves difficult tradeoffs.
Explaining Treatment Risks to Patients
Physicians should frame treatment options by their “harms and benefits,” not by their “risks and benefits.”
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