MOC and the Demise of CME
With the ongoing forcing of participation in Maintenance of Certification (MOC) of US physicians by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS)and its 24 member boards, we are seeing the slow demise of physician-selected Continuing Medical Education (CME) in America. Attendance at specialty society meetings is at an all-time low. Doctors, increasingly employed and facing the reality of how (Source: Dr. Wes)
Source: Dr. Wes - April 2, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: DrWes Source Type: blogs
Congress Made it Easier to Treat Addiction but Harder to Treat Pain
Jeffrey A. SingerLate on the afternoon of December 23, the U.S. House of Representativespassed the approximately 1.7 trillion ‐dollar omnibus spending package, which now awaits President Biden’s signature. As is usually the case with such legislative monstrosities, the bill contains a few positive features and many negative ones. One positive part is that it repeals the so ‐called “X‑waiver” (an X is added to the DEA narcotics prescribing license), which the Drug Enforcement Administration has long required health care practitioners to apply for to prescribe the Schedule III opioid buprenorphine...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 23, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features, HLTH Edition – November 17, 2022 – News from Amazon, Fitbit, Google, and Verizon, plus innovation awards from UCSF and Fierce Healthcare
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
This edition is our second special dispatch from HLTH 2022. There have been a lot of new research reports, new products, and news partnerships announced at the event. We wanted to try and cover as many announcements for the Heal...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 17, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Amazon Clinic Awell Babylon BioButton BrainCheck Carium Censinet Centivo CertifyOS CIOX Health Dot-to-Dot DreamBe DrFirst Fierce Healthcare fin Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links –3rd September, 2022.
Here are a few I came across last week.Note: Each link is followed by a title and few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment-----https://healthitanalytics.com/news/machine-learning-tools-predict-post-op-complications-surgery-durationMachine-Learning Tools Predict Post-Op Complications, Surgery DurationResearchers from Washington University in St. Louis have developed machine-learning tools that can predict post-operative complications and surgery duration using perioperative data.ByShania K...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 3, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Educating Physicians About Firearm Safety and Injury Prevention
On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, guests Katherine Hoops, MD, MPH, Andra Blomkalns, MD, MBA, and Allison Augustus-Wallace, PhD, MS, MNS, join host Toni Gallo to talk about firearm safety and injury prevention education. They discuss the role of physicians in engaging patients and communities in firearm injury risk reduction, the current state of firearm injury prevention education, and where the academic medicine community needs to go from here.
This episode is now available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else podcasts are available.
A transcript is below.
Read the articles d...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 22, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast AM Podcast Transcript Academic Medicine podcast firearm injury prevention firearm safety medical education Source Type: blogs
HealthStream Acquires CloudCME
HealthStream expands its presence as a market leader in healthcare continuing education and continuing medical education management with the acquisition of another powerful application specifically designed for healthcare organizations and their workforce HealthStream (Nasdaq: HSTM), a leading provider of workforce and provider solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced the completion of its acquisition of the […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 6, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT CloudCME Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare Continuing Education Healthcare M&A HealthStream Karl Wilkens Kevin O’Hara Nasdaq: HSTM Source Type: blogs
Blame to go around on the opioid epidemic
The Purdue Pharma settlement gave family members of people who were harmed by opioid prescribingthe opportunity to confront Purdue family members, a dramatic spectacle that represents some measure of justice but casts blame for the disaster of the opioid epidemic on one family. That is not the whole story, or really a true story. Prior to the 1980s, opioids were generally prescribed in the U.S. only for short-term use, after surgery or severe injury, or for people who were terminally ill.In the 1980s, for reasons which are not entirely clear, attitudes in the medical profession began to shift and physicians began to t...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 14, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Cardiac failure Info desk : Diuretics never save lives, while Dapagliflozin does it in style !
An Interaction in IMCU
How is Mr. K, who was shifted from ward 102 ?
Yes sir, It was acute decompensated LV failure, Patient was in impending pulmonary edema. In fact, he developed. He is fine now,
How did he come around? He was too sick I thought.
“Just pushed 60 mg Frusemide IV, luckily he also had good BP, so with an infusion of NTG, titrated Carvedilol a little bit, he came out nicely. I guess it is Ischemic DCM”.
“Good, You have done a nice job”
“Don’t make me embarrassed sir. It is such a routine in our ER.
To make him curious, I asked “Which drug do you think that saved hi...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - December 17, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: cardiac failure Cardiology -guidelines cardiology -Therapeutics cardiology wisdom cardiology-ethics Cardiology-Land mark studies Ethics in Medicine evidence based cardiology acc aha esc guidelines on heart failure bumatanide Cardiac fa Source Type: blogs
Cardiac failure Info desk :Diuretics never save lives, while Dapagliflozin does it in style !
An Interaction in IMCU
How is Mr. K, who was shifted from ward 102 ?
Yes sir, It was acute decompensated LV failure, Patient was in impending pulmonary edema. In fact, he developed. He is fine now,
How did he come around? He was too sick I thought.
“Just pushed 60 mg Frusemide IV, luckily he also had good BP, so with an infusion of NTG, titrated Carvedilol a little bit, he came out nicely. I guess it is Ischemic DCM”.
“Good, You have done a nice job”
“Don’t make me embarrassed sir. It is such a routine in our ER.
To make him curious, I asked “Which drug do you think that s...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - December 17, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: cardiac failure Cardiology -guidelines cardiology -Therapeutics cardiology wisdom cardiology-ethics Cardiology-Land mark studies Ethics in Medicine evidence based cardiology acc aha esc guidelines on heart failure bumatanide Cardiac fa Source Type: blogs
Stanford Center for Continuing Medical Education launches innovative Physician Leadership Certificate Program
In William Shakespeare ’s often-quoted speech from As You Like It, we are advised: All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts… Indeed, the “one man in his time” and the “one woman inRead more …Stanford Center for Continuing Medical Education launches innovative Physician Leadership Certificate Program originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 13, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/stanford-medicine-physician-leadership-certificate-program" rel="tag" > Stanford ’ Medicine Physician Leadership Certificate Program < /a > < /span > Tags: Sponsored Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Transcript for Advice from a Master Peer Reviewer
Below is the transcript of the following Academic Medicine Podcast episode:
Advice from a Master Peer ReviewerOriginally posted August 2018, Reposted September 6, 2021
Read more about this episode and listen here.
Toni Gallo:
Hi all. This week I am reposting a discussion I had with Academic Medicine’s former Editor-in-Chief David Sklar, and one of the journal’s Master Reviewers, Carl Stevens. David and I spoke to Carl back in August of 2018 about the practice of evaluating a scholarly article as a peer reviewer. Carl is a longtime reviewer for Academic Medicine and a 10-time winner of our Excelle...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 6, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast Transcript Audio Peer Reviewer Resources medical education scholarly publishing Source Type: blogs
I ’m called anti-science. I’m just an early adopter.
As an integrative/functional medicine physician, I ’ve been criticized, like many of my colleagues in the field, for being “anti-science.” In the past five years, many of us within the field have perceived increased and biased scrutiny by the ACCME, the organization tasked with accrediting continuing medical education providers. But in the wa ke of COVID-19, where pharmaceutical interventionsRead more …I ’m called anti-science. I’m just an early adopter. originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 30, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/melinda-ring" rel="tag" > Melinda Ring, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
The AMA Opioid Task Force 2020 Report Should Come as No Surprise to Those Who Follow the Data
Jeffrey A. SingerThe American Medical Association recently released itOpioid Task Force 2020 Report. The Task Force found there was a 37.1 percent decrease in opioid prescriptions between 2014 and 2019; a 64.4 percent increase in the use of state prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) in the last year (739 million queries in 2019); and hundreds of thousands of physicians accessing continuing medical education courses on opioid prescribing (now mandatory in some states). However, the report states:Despite these efforts, illicitly manufactured fentanyl, fentanyl analogues and stimulants (e.g. methamphetamine...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 31, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Neurology Grand Rounds: Brain Death: Controversies and Advances
On September 30, 2020, OHSU Neurology Grand Rounds will feature David Greer, presenting "Brain Death: Controversies and Advances." Neurology Grand Rounds provides free continuing medical education for the public. (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - August 30, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Medical Education Must Adapt to Support the Broadening Role of Physicians
By SYLVIE STACY, MD, MPH
As a physician and writer on the topic medical careers, I’ve noticed extensive interest in nonclinical career options for physicians. These include jobs in health care administration, management consulting, pharmaceuticals, health care financing, and medical writing, to name a few. This anecdotal evidence is supported by survey data. Of over 17,000 physicians surveyed in the 2016 Survey of America’s Physicians: Practice Patterns and Perspectives, 13.5% indicated that they planned to seek a nonclinical job within the subsequent one to three years, which was an increase from less than 10% in a...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 31, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Education Medical Practice Physicians Medical School Sylvie Stacy Source Type: blogs
