For their 2021 Future of Healthcare & Medicine conference, the MIT Club of Northern California invited founders, technologists, investors, and industry leaders who are working to build the…
Dr. Gregory Goodman is the Founder of the Physician Entrepreneur Summit, an online conference with a mission to inspire the next generation of physician entrepreneurs to solve healthcare’s…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Use of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents in US cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy has increased 10-fold since their introduction, yet there’s been no associated decline in…
This week, the AMA is mobilizing its grassroots network to vote “yes” on H.R. 3961, the “Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009.” This bill would permanently repeal…
A controversial audit program in the process of being rolled out in all 50 states by 2010 is sparking concerns not just from the nation’s largest hospitals, but…
This week, the AMA sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi outlining its support for the concurrent passage of two health system reform bills before…
This week the House of Representatives unveiled two bills addressing health system reform, The Affordable Health Care for America Act and the Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act. See…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Liquid-based cytology is no better than conventional Pap tests in detecting cervical cancer precursors, according to a report in the Journal of the…
Recruiting physicians is getting even more competitive and threatening to become a full-contact sport. That’s the key takeaway from a groundbreaking study of physician recruitment and retention trends…
The American Medical Association and The Doctor’s Channel bring you the AMA’s Health System Reform Video Bulletin for October 22, 2009. Today we provide an update on Senate…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While minimally invasive radical prostatectomy (MIRP) offers certain advantages over open retropubic radical prostatectomy (RRP), such as a shorter hospital stay, it also…
