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More practices offer docs part-time, job-sharing perks
Despite a long-held line of thinking that part-time and flexible physician work options posed too many cultural and logistical challenges for practices, growing numbers of groups are finding ways to
Accountable care drives demand for NPs, PAs
With physician shortages widespread and pressure to create teams to deliver more accountable care, demand for nurse practitioners and physician assistants is growing rapidly. According to the
Tenn. HIE will use Humedica to analyze data from disparate EHRs
Holston Medical Group (HMG), a 150-provider practice in eastern Tennessee, has selected Humedica MinedShare, a business intelligence solution, to help it improve processes of care both in its own
AMGA: Most medical groups operating at a loss
With very slight increases in compensation across specialties, most medical groups operated at a significant financial loss in 2010, reveals the American Medical Group Association's (AMGA) "2011
ACOs will bring more losses than savings, hospital CEOs say
Days after a major trade association representing medical groups voiced concerns over the proposed regulations governing accountable care organizations, a consortium of some of the most prominent
ACO regs are 'overly prescriptive, operationally burdensome,' docs say
The American Medical Group Association has pushed back on the Obama Administration's recently released regulations on accountable care organizations, claiming they are too costly and complex to
Prepare for increased physician turnover in 2011
For the first time since 2008, physician turnover is up, a possible sign that unhappy doctors who'd decided to stay put in a shaky economy now are feeling safe to make a change, suggests the sixth
What should Meaningful Use Stages 2 and 3 include?
During two days in late April 2009, the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics convened a meeting in Washington, D.C., to better define what "meaningful use" was--and who could be a
MGMA 09: MGMA teams with AMGA, Perot to aid extension centers
The two national organizations representing physician group practices are formally teaming up for the first time, and the impetus is EHR adoption. The Medical Group Management Association and the
