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iHealthSpot Inc. Partners with Practice Builders to Enhance e-Marketing, Promotion of Physician Practices
http://www.e-dental.com iHealthSpot Inc., a Web development company for medical professionals, announces a partnership with iHealthSpot Inc., a private-practice healthcare marketing firm. Under the agreement, iHealthSpot will be the exclusive provider of Internet marketing and website services to Practice Builders’ client base. Practice Builders is a division of Ascend Media of Overland Park, Ks. and has […]
Doctor asks court for help with insurance payments
By Tambria Leonard-Whitman Leader correspondent http://www.orangeleader.com Dr. Wilbur Hah of Orange Medical Surgical Associates asked Judge Carl Thibodeaux and members of the Orange County Commission on Monday for help to avoid a forced reduction and degradation of medical services in Orange. “Quality health care is at stake,” Hah told commissioners. He is concerned low fees […]
Insurance plan seeks rate cuts, takes flak
By Dara Kam Palm Beach Post Capital Bureau The Florida Senate rolled out an insurance proposal Monday aimed at reducing property insurance premiums but including measures that both consumer advocates and the insurance industry say won’t help stabilize the market in the long run. The 153-page draft bill would roll back Citizens Insurance rate hikes, […]
Raise funds for trauma network
http://www.macon.com If you ever suffer life-threatening injuries in a car accident, a fall, a gunshot wound or a heart attack, you’d better hope you’re within 40 miles or so of a trauma center. If you are, you can get the quick and specialized help you need within the so-called “golden hour” where the majority of […]
Before we limit malpractice lawsuits, let's limit medical mistakes
By JACK D. WALKER http://www.rctimes.com Doctors are sued when mistakes are made. Hopefully, the medical profession will work to eliminate mistakes that former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, M.D., has called for. Would limiting malpractice suits have an effect to limit much-needed reform? How bad is medical malpractice? According to an article in the Journal […]
Chief judge plans new effort to see how Madison County courts figure into malpractice debate
By Adam Jadhav ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH A new attempt to address the political and legal debate over medical malpractice litigation in Madison County comes from what is perhaps an unlikely source. The battle over the issue that made the news almost daily in 2005 largely pitted lawyers, who say the court system is a fair […]
Rural areas have a doctor deficiency
By Lee Romney, LA Times Staff Writer http://ktla.trb.com The young man told the emergency room doctor at Sutter Coast Hospital that he had come to await the end of the world under the big trees. He realized he needed help. But there are no psychiatric beds here, and not a single psychiatrist practices in Del […]
Race Impacts Professional Lives Of Physicians Of African Descent
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com A new study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine offers a unique and detailed view of race and discrimination in the health care workplace and the negative impact on job satisfaction, career advancement and minority physician retention. Published in the January 2 Annals of Internal Medicine, the study explored the role of race […]
Malpractice Insurance Pushing Wyoming Doctors Out of State
http://www.insurancejournal.com Nearly one-third of Wyoming doctors are planning to leave the state eventually and many of those say the cost of malpractice insurance is a factor, a new state report shows. The Wyoming Healthcare Commission this week released a report giving detailed information about doctors and other health care professionals in the state. The report […]
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