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AskMen.com April 15, 2001 Joshua Levine	Choosing The Right Doctor Choosing a doctor is one of the most important decisions you can make. It's probably best made when you are healthy and have some time to think about a number of possibilities. If you don't have a doctor or are thinking about changing doctors, now may be the best time to look...
BusinessWeek April 23, 2009 Catherine Arnst	Doctors' Pride: A Hurdle to Digital Medicine A forerunner in New England found that some physicians would sooner cut ties than see their elite status threatened.
Managed Care August 2001 John Carroll	Info on Questionable Physicians Languishes in National Data Bank A clearinghouse was created that stores details about malpractice suits and disciplinary actions. So how come HMOs don't use it?
BusinessWeek February 7, 2005 Arlene Weintraub	A Remedy For Malpractice Malaise Hospitals are offering free coverage to recruit doctors from private practice
Managed Care October 2000 Maureen Glabman	Giving Some Ground to Physicians Helped Turn Health System Around One hospital system accepted the general wisdom a few years ago by acquiring physician practices. Now it bucks the new wisdom by holding on to them...
AskMen.com Tara Weiss	Reasons Not To Become A Doctor There were once many rewards to being in the medical profession. For decades, doctors earned hefty paychecks, had autonomy and respect. Those benefits are fading, and as a result, so is the number of doctors.
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2005 Lena Chow	Docs of Shanghai They're short on status, pay, and respect, but China's young doctors hold keys to the world's fastest growing pharmaceutical market.
Managed Care April 2000 Tim Olsen	Physician, Tarnish Not Thine Image Doctors who use the news media to criticize others, rather than initiate a constructive dialog about difficult issues such as antibiotic resistance, help erode the profession's influence.
Salon.com December 2, 1999 Jeff Drayer	The culture of secrecy Docs make mistakes, but proposed regulations to make them talk about it won't change that scary fact.
Managed Care November 1999 Mark D. Abruzzo, J.D.	Peer Review May Not Be Confidential When Fairness of Process Is at Issue ...In Pennsylvania, peer review protection took a hit on Oct. 1 when the state Supreme Court ruled that physician peer review at hospitals cannot always be kept confidential...
CIO November 1, 2000 Susannah Patton	The Rx Files Hospitals are prescribing healthy doses of IT to divert costly and sometimes fatal medication errors...
CIO June 1, 2003 Alison Bass	A Big Rollout Bust Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems can reduce medication errors by as much as 86 percent, and save hospitals and doctors' practices billions of dollars, studies show. Yet only 3 percent to 5 percent of American hospitals have fully implemented CPOE systems. What gives?
Managed Care February 2002 Alan M. Muney	Evidence-Based Medicine Needs To Be Promoted More Vigorously This means using a carrot-and-stick approach with physicians. Those who respect the evidence should be rewarded; others should face penalties...
Managed Care April 2000	Advocate says: Physicians, Hospitals To Lose Clout And Numbers The colorful president of the People's Medical Society foresees fewer hospitals, more DM, "teledocs," and an end to legislation by body part.
AskMen.com Dustin Driver	How To Check A Doctor's Credentials Here's a five-step plan to finding a good doctor.
Managed Care May 2001 Jack McCain	Use of Hospitalists: Another Case of 'May' vs. 'Must' Despite a movement to ban mandatory use of these physicians, their numbers and influence are rising as their roles become better understood...
BusinessWeek January 31, 2005 Carol Marie Cropper	Between You, The Doctor, And The PC More physicians and hospitals are putting their medical records online
Salon.com April 9, 2002 Ivan Oransky	Robo-docs Medical errors kill more people each year than auto accidents, breast cancer or AIDS. Can automating medicine prevent tragedies like the Andrea Yates case?
Managed Care August 2001	Four Views of Managed Care Ethics The evolution of managed care has posed ethical problems for physicians, plan administrators, and even patients. Four ethicists find that questions are many, while satisfactory answers are in short supply...
BusinessWeek June 13, 2005 Timothy J. Mullaney	Hunting For Hospitals That Measure Up New Web sites can help you become an educated health-care consumer
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005	Crusader for Clearer E-Info Entrepreneur Jonathan S. Bush -- yes he's related -- discusses how Web-based medical records can become a workable reality
Managed Care December 2002 Diane Cook	Beware the Hidden Consequences of the Malpractice Crisis Soaring malpractice insurance rates are thinning out provider ranks in at least a dozen states. Could access problems pose issues for HMOs in those areas?
BusinessWeek January 7, 2010 Catherine Arnst	Hospitals: Radical Cost Surgery A hospital that slashes costs - and delivers high-quality care as it innovates? Yes, it exists.
BusinessWeek June 23, 2011 Drew Armstrong	The Simplest Rx: Check on Your Patient Doctors and insurers cut costs by sharing information.
Managed Care September 1999 Ed Rabinowitz	Is There a Doctor in the House? The per-visit cost of a house call is high, but used judiciously, this practice can lower overall medical costs -- not to mention provide better care.
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 Timothy J. Mullaney	Saving Lives Shouldn't Be This Hard The health-care system doesn't give patients the tools or the support they need to make confident decisions about choosing doctors, treatments, or hospitals.
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 Mullaney & Weintraub	The Digital Hospital Information technology saves lives and money at one medical center, perhaps becoming the future of health care.
BusinessWeek September 16, 2009 Catherine Arnst	The Truth About Malpractice Lawsuits President Barack Obama tapped into a large vein of public support when he suggested recently that he is open to reforming medical malpractice laws.
Managed Care December 2000 Patrick Mullen	Employer Demands Will Change Healthcare The CEO of a large Florida employer coalition insists that the information that companies are beginning to demand will force the industry to change...
Managed Care June 2003 John Carroll	Specialty Hospitals' Success Sows Seeds of Lobbying Fight Some in government question the propriety of physicians steering patients into facilities that the doctors partly own.
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005	President Bush's IT Doctor Physician/economist David Brailer, point man for the Administration's push for e-health records, on where the planning stands
Managed Care August 2000	Internet revolution not yet impressing most physicians For all the potential of the Internet to erase old physician doubts about integrating information technology into everyday practice, scant few doctors have embraced it.
The Motley Fool August 28, 2009 Brian Orelli	Your Doctor Is Killing You ... Financially What the doctor does has a big effect on how much health care costs.
Managed Care October 2002 Joyce Ochs	Decision Support Made Practical Making all the necessary information easily accessible is the motivation behind today's decision-support products. Most of them are called clinical information systems or primary care information systems and are designed for practicing physicians.
Managed Care May 2000 Frank Diamond Senior Editor	Medical Director: A Typical Day Requires Both Strength and Tact Ruling on queries from phone banks, working to end hospital errors, meeting with disgruntled physicians: Does any of this sound familiar?
Managed Care February 2006 Sharon Baker	Hospitalists No Longer Novel Increased emphasis on improving quality and patient safety in hospitals, growing pressures to reduce costs, and new limits on residency work hours have all led to an explosion in the number of physicians who work solely in hospitals.
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Robert N. Charette	Dying for Data A comprehensive system of electronic medical records promises to save lives and cut health care costs -- but how do you build one? The many technical, social, and political issues are also formidable.
Financial Planning August 1, 2008 David A. Twibell	House Calls Working with physicians can be rewarding, but to be successful, advisors need to develop the skills to tackle the unique problems facing doctors.
Managed Care September 1999	Selling The Electronic Patient Chart: A Conversation With Mark Leavitt, M.D., Ph.D. This physician and his backers are making a $100 million bet that electronic patient records, and widespread access to them through the Internet, are not far away for most practices.
Managed Care February 2002 Donna J. Senft	Laws Governing Peer Immunity, Physician Credentialing Upheld A federal court in Maryland recently addressed challenges to several laws governing physician credentialing...
Financial Planning July 1, 2011 Suzanne Sataline	Code Blue? Many financial planners say their physician clients are fretting that they won't have enough money saved to retire on schedule, and that their savings won't hold through their elderly years.
Managed Care January 2005	Private Practice Physicians Find Dual Role Challenging When it comes to balancing the role of business owner and practicing physician, many private practice doctors are having a tough time of it.
Managed Care November 2000 Michael Levin-Epstein	Don't Count on Data Bank Being Opened Any Time Soon What are the chances that Congress will soon enact legislation that will allow the public to tap into the National Practitioner Data Bank electronically to obtain information about its providers' professional history and conduct? Somewhere between slim and none...
Managed Care January 2002 Ed Rabinowitz	When Physicians' Skills Fail, Collaboration Beats Punishment New programs hold promise for rehabilitating sound physicians who have, for any number of reasons, lost some of the skills they started with...
Managed Care July 2003 Ed Silverman	A Little Something For the Physicians Health plans know that getting along with physicians is important, and many are trying new initiatives. Here are some successes.
Managed Care December 2000 Michael S. Victoroff	A Modest, Not Satirical, Proposal For Assisted-Suicide Decisions I would like to offer an alternate model that would dramatically refocus a critical aspect of the ethical controversy. I would ask advocates of assisted suicide, "Why must this involve physicians? Why not have judges do it?"
Managed Care April 2000 Mark Abernathy	Avoid Common Problems In Risk-Sharing Contracts These arrangements too often become a hindrance instead of a help. Simple precautions today can help prevent major headaches later on.
CFO May 1, 2009 Josh Hyatt	Strong Medicine Boosted by a substantial injection of cash from the federal stimulus bill, electronic medical records may help relieve the pain of rising premiums by improving efficiencies in the medical system.
CIO December 15, 2009 Kim S. Nash	Data Sharing That Benefits Customers At Children's Hospital Boston, sharing more data, securely, promises healthier, more satisfied patients.