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Stage 2 may expand the number of physicians exempt from MU

There's been a lot of hoopla about the Stage 2 proposed rule's impact on patient engagement, health information exchanges and quality improvement. But what has received relatively little attention is

Defensive medicine amounts to a quarter of surgeons' practice costs

Although the total cost of defensive medicine in the United States remains difficult to pin down, a recent study suggests that orthopedic surgeons are responsible for about $2 billion of the annual

In push for Meaningful Use, how did radiologists get left behind?

It's not good news when an entire segment of the healthcare industry feels disenfranchised from the much ballyhooed electronic health record incentive program. Evidently, though, many radiologists

Radiologists could net $1.5B for EHR use

Radiologists "would be wise" to study and respond to the government's incentive programs related to the Meaningful Use of certified ambulatory electronic health record systems, considering that more

Study: The 'right' medical expert testimony can be bought

Seven years after being accused of misdiagnosing a patient's fatal skin cancer, Dr. Patrick Zimmerman, a family practice doctor in Illinois, for a second time emerged victorious in the medical