Doctors shouldn ’t have to find side gigs. Here’s why many do.
Thanks to the internet, collaboration has never been so easy. If you need to learn about how to install a new irrigation system in your lawn, the resources are a few clicks away. You just need the time and motivation to make happen. On the medicine front, there has never been a time in 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 17, 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
Healthcare Messaging & Orchestration — 2019
The objective is to provide a solution that can span tens or hundreds of hospitals in a system, enabling intra-enterprise messaging on a large scale and aggregating data at the enterprise level. Mobile Heartbeat and Spok are moving in this direction.
A different but related capability to enterprise scalability is inter-enterprise communications. There is a significant amount of communications between those within a provider organization and external health care trading partners that also care for the patient. These different users include hospital clinicians/caregivers, physician practices, sub acute care, patients, an...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - April 15, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Tim Gee Tags: Company Profiles Messaging & Orchestration Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Messaging & Orchestration — 2019
The objective is to provide a solution that can span tens or hundreds of hospitals in a system, enabling intra-enterprise messaging on a large scale and aggregating data at the enterprise level. Mobile Heartbeat and Spok are moving in this direction.
A different but related capability to enterprise scalability is inter-enterprise communications. There is a significant amount of communications between those within a provider organization and external health care trading partners that also care for the patient. These different users include hospital clinicians/caregivers, physician practices, sub acute care, patients, an...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - April 15, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Tim Gee Tags: Company Profiles Messaging & Orchestration Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Messaging & Orchestration — 2019
The objective is to provide a solution that can span tens or hundreds of hospitals in a system, enabling intra-enterprise messaging on a large scale and aggregating data at the enterprise level. Mobile Heartbeat and Spok are moving in this direction.
A different but related capability to enterprise scalability is inter-enterprise communications. There is a significant amount of communications between those within a provider organization and external health care trading partners that also care for the patient. These different users include hospital clinicians/caregivers, physician practices, sub acute care, patients, an...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - April 15, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Tim Gee Tags: Company Profiles Messaging & Orchestration Source Type: blogs
It ’s important to understand the money trail in medicine
There was a recent news brief stating that the average internist generates about $2.4 million annually for the hospitals that they work for. While it’s no surprise that doctors help others make money, seeing a figure to your worth hammers home how much we sustain the health care system, often at our own expense. This means that […]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 9, 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
Will blockchain become the coin of the medical realm?
First, there was Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency that utilizes blockchain, a decentralized system of data collection and transactions that we are told will defy hacking. (Wasn ’t the Titanic said to be unsinkable?) We read that cryptocurrency and other blockchain functions will be a societal gamechanger, much like the internet was when Al Gore invented it 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 - March 18, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/michael-kirsch" rel="tag" > Michael Kirsch, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Tech Health IT Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Refuse to accept that burnout is a natural experience in health care
Burnout is a myth. Dedicated clinicians, working under circumstances that connect their skills and compassion with opportunities to impact patients, won ’t experience burnout any more often than they might by doing other jobs. The story we tell— the one that dissatisfaction is this system ’s inevitable byproduct— perpetuates more harm than we know. This […]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 - March 17, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/john-corsino" rel="tag" > John Corsino, DPT < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Practice Management Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Is financial independence selfish?
Reaching financial independence is no small feat. One has to turn inward and explore personal habits, goals, and rebalance value systems. These are somewhat introspective topics. Indeed, they require quite a bit of self-focus. This, I believe, is good. If we don ’t continuously re-evaluate our beliefs and actions then how are we going to grow? […]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 - February 24, 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 personal and professional challenges of women physicians
I ’m often asked to write and speak about being a woman physician. I don’t know that any of my male physician colleagues have ever been asked to talk about being a male physician. Many hospital systems have women in medicine groups, and there’s now a National Women Physicians Day. Again, don’t know of the same for male […]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 - February 9, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/nisha-mehta" rel="tag" > Nisha Mehta, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician #Instagram Hospital-Based Medicine Practice Management Source Type: blogs
eMDs Acquires Aprima
Acquisition creates comprehensive solution serving 63,000 providers worldwide Austin and Dallas, Texas – January 30, 2019 – eMDs, Inc. (“eMDs”) announced today that it has acquired Aprima Medical Software (“Aprima”), a leading provider of electronic health record (EHR) and practice management (PM) software and revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions to ambulatory care organizations. The acquisition creates a world-class provider of fully integrated […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 31, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Ambulatory EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Aprima Aprima Medical Software Derek Pickell EHR Consolidation EHR Market eMDs Marlin Equity Partners Michael Nissenbaum Source Type: blogs
Experts declare physician burnout ‘a public health crisis’ - and health IT a significant pathogen
I ' m certain when the information technology hyperenthusiasts and non-clinical management information systems " experts " and pundits get the technology all figured out, this burnout crisis will end.It will be about the same time as Zefram Cochrane invents the warp drive in Bozeman, Montana just prior to first contact by the Vulcans. That is in 2063 or so.Experts declare physician burnout ‘a public health crisis’January 22, 2019https://www.healio.com/psychiatry/practice-management/news/online/%7B7f2124e2-d72e-4e3e-be53-6fbe41986186%7D/experts-declare-physician-burnout-a-public-health-crisisExperts from leading U.S. he...
Source: Health Care Renewal - January 23, 2019 Category: Health Management Tags: burnout healthcare IT burden Healthcare IT experiment Source Type: blogs
Improving Healthcare Efficiency with Incentives: Interview with Ben Kraus, CEO of Stellar Health
We present simple reminders to the provider at the point-of-care. For example: “There are two things that you really need to do for this patient today, based on their history.” It simplifies everything and prioritizes the actions that contribute to a healthier patient in the long-run. Trying to use an EHR to do this doesn’t work because EHRs were designed to serve as a complete clinical record of a patient, which is cavernous and lacks actionability. EHRs were not designed to align payor and providers incentives and create a prioritization framework to maximize health outcomes.
There are innovative companies out th...
Source: Medgadget - January 23, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Mohammad Saleh Tags: Exclusive Informatics Medicine Public Health Society Source Type: blogs
Doctors are pawns of the health care system
Doctors and other caretakers are the pawns of the health care system. We provide the services that allow hospitals and medical groups to bring in big revenue. Unless we are contracting directly with insurers, doctors will never realize the true financial firepower that we have. As the health care environment evolves, we are seeing fewer […]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 - November 9, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/smart-money-md" rel="tag" > Smart Money, MD < /a > Tags: Finance Hospital-Based Medicine Practice Management Source Type: blogs
When doctors leave clinical medicine, don ’t blame the victim
I don’t want to be unclear here. I don’t want to mince my words. But I’m mad about an interaction I had on Facebook. I was commenting on the Physician Side Gigs group page when someone riffed on one of my statements. They mentioned that my opinions could be a slippery slope towards a future where doctors no longer see patients. The insinuation was that we as physicians owe it to our community to continue practicing medicine. As many of you know, with my half retirement, I am planning to leave patient visits behind. Being financially independent is allowing me to escape a work environment laced with fe...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 14, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/docg" rel="tag" > DocG, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Practice Management Source Type: blogs
How burnout helped this physician find his purpose
A common proverb teaches that, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” Medicine is a world where people are well-intended. Yet they fail to change a system that is broken and continues to produce burned out, depressed, and suicidal doctors. We can see their final destination, look back, and realize that we helped pave the road that carried them to that destination.
Today, I want to hammer home the purpose of this site and how I am trying to reshape this road our doctors travel. This is why I write. This is my purpose.
The well-intentioned
Imagine a world in which a young person decides to pursue a nob...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 14, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/the-physician-philosopher" rel="tag" > The Physician Philosopher, MD < /a > Tags: Finance Practice Management Source Type: blogs
