There Seems To Be Something Pretty Odd Happening With Medical Director.
It has really been a busy week news wise for Medical Director, who provide one of the major GP practice management systems in the country.First we had a press release saying that the company was part of a winning tender in the UK and as a result were moving into the UK market.MEDIA RELEASE Monday 21st October 2019Medicaldirector Launching In Uk Healthcare Market After NHSs Digital Contract AwardLeading healthcare software company MedicalDirector, has today announced its upcoming entry in the United Kingdom (UK) after being notified by the technology unit of the UK ’s national healthcare provider, the National Health Serv...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 26, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Moral injury from a primary care perspective
The backbone of a great health care system is its primary care task force. From Singapore to France, elite health care systems rely on these cerebral doctors to provide preventive, urgent, and acute care along with chronic disease management. Primary care doctors have a broad-ranging impact from health care access, cost control, and impact on […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 23, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/talal-khan" rel="tag" > Talal Khan, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Practice Management Primary Care Source Type: blogs
The culture of silence in Canada ’s medical institutions is in desperate need of reform
Canada ’s health care system has been a source of national pride for as long as I can remember — a view that was shattered following my experience as a patient advocate during my late father Henry’s cancer journey. The depths of perversity were made apparent to me when I was charged over $1,000 to a ccess my […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 10, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/iris-kulbatski" rel="tag" > Iris Kulbatski, PhD < /a > < /span > Tags: Policy Practice Management Source Type: blogs
10 telltale signs that you ’re ready for a mindset shift
Physician wellness and work-life balance are hot topics in today’s medical arena. It is on the minds of medical students, residents, and physicians in practice. While the concepts and methods to achieve it are enticing, the question remains how does the individual physician achieve it. Some believe that system-wide changes in medicine will get doctors […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 30, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/stephanie-wellington" rel="tag" > Stephanie Wellington, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Should hospital systems post physician salaries?
One of my coworkers who grew up in India told me that their teachers in grade school would post everyone ’s scores in the hallway after every exam. This comparison of grades and objective testing further extended to cities and even regions in the country. There are people going through the hierarchical ranks with “gold medals” […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 30, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/smart-money-md" rel="tag" > Smart Money, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Finance Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Health insurers and physicians are not partners
On the face of it, this seems like a fairly simple business arrangement. My patients or their employers pay money to a health insurance corporation so they, in turn, have sufficient funds available to pay medical claims for services I render. That simple system seems to work for auto, home, and life insurance. First of […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 20, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/thomas-stark" rel="tag" > Thomas Stark, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Practice Management Surgery Source Type: blogs
The System has a tremendous advantage over physicians
My niece, whom we will call Anne, recently completed her residency. I remember Anne as a child: always smiling, always happy, idealistic. She excelled academically and chose medical school despite my reservations. I watched Anne proceed through medical school and residency, transforming before my eyes into an anxiety-riddled, sleep-deprived, irritable, and jaded physician. She said […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 15, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jodie-eckleberry-hunt" rel="tag" > Jodie Eckleberry-Hunt, PhD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Practice Management Source Type: blogs
As a patient, I never understood the heartbreakingly human toll our system takes on clinicians
Let ’s get right to it: This is an apology letter to frontline clinicians. And a call to action. I’m a patient advocate, and I’ve spent most of the last 20 years fighting for patient- and family-centered care in national laws and regulations, and in local practice. Prioritizing the needs of patien ts and families above all […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 13, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/christine-bechtel" rel="tag" > Christine Bechtel < /a > < /span > Tags: Patient Hospital-Based Medicine Patients Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Be Bowser, not Mario in your medical practice
Anyone familiar with Nintendo’s Mario franchise is probably very confused by the title of this blog but stay with me here. My kids have recently become obsessed with Mario. It’s brought back great memories from my childhood of playing Super Mario World on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System way back in the day and“Super […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 17, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/phil-boucher" rel="tag" > Phil Boucher, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Practice Management Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Fads in medicine and in personal finance
If my medical training taught me one thing, it was how to recognize the destructive nature of fads. They pervade our health care system. Most center around medicine, vitamins, and herbals. Though there also is no shortage of treatments and procedures that become popular very quickly and flame out over decades. Although one would think […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 13, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/docg" rel="tag" > DocG, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Finance Practice Management Source Type: blogs
The conundrum of dual physician households
Two incomes are better than one, right? As we all know, the answer isn’t clear cut. If we have to actively “work” to generate income, we have to balance exchanging time for money. Nothing comes for free. When you throw in a tax system to convolute matters, certain households are actually punished for going into […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 10, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/smart-money-md" rel="tag" > Smart Money, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Finance Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Before starting your own practice, do these 3 things first
If you’re a young doctor reading this, chances are you are employed by someone else. Your paycheck may come from a hospital system or a group of other doctors, but you’re not your own boss. This may be working out just fine for you: I hope you are happy and have a well-balanced work and […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 10, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/frederick-gandolfo" rel="tag" > Frederick Gandolfo, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Why this burned out physician turned to meditation
There are aspects of practicing medicine that will always be challenging and stressful, even in a perfect system. Avoiding dangerous drug-drug interactions. Keeping up with the overwhelming amount of new data on diagnostic and treatment modalities. Telling a patient that they are dying. The uncertainties of call night. In addition, medicine tends to attract some […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 5, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jill-wener" rel="tag" > Jill Wener, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Practice Management Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
America ’s broken health care system is killing our doctors
In today ’s health care system, we as physicians find ourselves frustrated by inefficient EHRs, heavy patient workloads and complex regulatory burdens. Our cumbersome health care system has led to high rates of dissatisfaction among our fellow physicians, and more dire, high rates of suicide. The physician suicide epidemic has many grasping for solutions. Even more […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 1, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/gary-price" rel="tag" > Gary Price, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Practice Management Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
What do we want our health care system to look like?
I think the time has come for us all to do a little more than put our 2 cents in. Our health care system is a mess, and while many of us fighting in the trenches and taking care of patients are working to make things better (despite the best efforts of much of the […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 22, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/fred-n-pelzman" rel="tag" > Fred N. Pelzman, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Policy Practice Management Primary Care Source Type: blogs
