Are We Losing the Personal Touch Because of the Way We Staff? Changing who answers the phones or fills in for the doc may mean fewer personal connections Mar 27, 2023
Clinical Note Writing App Powered by GPT-4 Set to Debut This Year Latest solution to help with physician burnout, says company executive Mar 24, 2023
Nobody Wants This Job. Should Physicians Stick Around? I'm disturbed every time I'm asked if I'll stay Mar 21, 2023
GPT-4 Is Here. How Can Doctors Use Generative AI Now? Chatbots can be helpful as "first-draft" office or research assistants Mar 20, 2023
Docs' Liking for Knee Injection Tied to Industry Payments Threefold rate for giving hyaluronic acid shots among those paid more than $100 Mar 20, 2023
Can the Surgicalist Model Solve OR Staffing Challenges? New solutions are needed to address growing workforce shortages Mar 18, 2023
More Money, Better Standards Needed to Improve Health Cybersecurity, Senators Told Small rural hospitals especially at risk, witness says Mar 16, 2023
Lessons From the Titanic: Is Medicine Headed for an Iceberg? Or can we course-correct in time? Mar 11, 2023
AMA, Surgeon General Propose Ways to Prevent Doctor Burnout Get enough sleep, stop prior authorization, and share your story with colleagues Mar 10, 2023
Ankle Docs See Falling Medicare Payments Inflation-adjusted reimbursements for fusion, joint replacement slip Mar 09, 2023
Hospitals Drag Their Feet in Posting Prices for Joint Replacements A year after CMS rule went into effect, two-thirds of hospitals had done nothing Mar 09, 2023
Why Every Doctor Needs a 'Badness' Plan The invisible graveyard of every physician's career Mar 07, 2023
Biologics for Asthma: Who Gets Them and Who Uses Them? Single-center study finds sluggish prescriptions, but patient-level barriers are also at work Feb 28, 2023
More Investment in Primary Care Needed, Report Finds Workforce is shrinking as fewer adults report having a regular source of care Feb 22, 2023
Can the Biases Built Into ChatGPT Be Fixed? Leo Anthony Celi, MD, MPH, outlines solutions to make its use in medicine more equitable Feb 17, 2023 video
ChatGPT Is More Like Penicillin Than Precision Medicine It has useful healthcare applications but can't replace human sensibility Feb 12, 2023
Life in the Fast Lane -- And the Slow Lane It'd be great to speed up the routine tasks and slow down our time with our patients Feb 06, 2023
Winning the Impossible: The Power of a Nurses' Strike The victories in New York can inspire better staffing practices nationwide Feb 06, 2023
Is ChatGPT Becoming Synonymous With Plagiarism in Scientific Research? Science will no longer publish research that uses ChatGPT or other AI-generated text programs Jan 26, 2023
ED Screening Program Picks Up Lots of Undiagnosed Diabetes Cases EHR alerts at Chicago ED flagged about three in 10 at-risk patients for HbA1c testing Jan 26, 2023
Unique Patient Identifier Funding Once Again Barred by Congress Biden administration working on better patient matching instead Jan 25, 2023
Smaller Blood Draws Reduce Transfusions in ICU, Trial Suggests Randomized trial supports switch for adult ICU blood tests, despite a pandemic dent in the data Jan 24, 2023
Held Hostage: The Toxicity of Physician Noncompete Clauses It's high time they're banned Jan 24, 2023
Death by 10,000 Clicks: The Electronic Health Record Here are a few steps to relieve the burden Jan 21, 2023
'Just Say No' to the Medication Switches It's time to stop letting insurers dictate what we can prescribe to our patients Jan 17, 2023
Healthcare Closely Watching FTC's Proposed Ban on Non-Competes A newly proposed rule would impact healthcare staffing woes, physician employment contracts Jan 12, 2023
Yet Another Issue Is Disrupting the Healthcare Workplace Responding to portal messages in "real time" is just the latest assault Jan 10, 2023
'It Is Crazy!' The Promise and Potential Peril of ChatGPT The possibilities for this AI-guided bot in medicine are dazzling, as long as we keep it in check Jan 09, 2023
The Power of Physician Relationships Patients may get better treatment if their PCPs and specialists went to the same school Jan 03, 2023
A New Year; A New Way Let's keep fighting the good fight to improve our healthcare system Jan 03, 2023
Vein Doc Accused of Illegal Billing Pays $2M; Practice Settles Discrimination Claim A weekly roundup of healthcare's encounters with the courts Dec 29, 2022
What Can ChatGPT Do For Your Practice? Impressive AI text generator still has notable limitations Dec 19, 2022
Let Me Make This Perfectly Clear The process of clearing patients for surgery is sorely in need of improvement Dec 12, 2022
Medicare Must Pay Docs More, Say MedPAC Commissioners Two proposals discussed at the commission's December meeting would increase physician pay Dec 09, 2022
Pharmacogenomic Results Clear to Young Cancer Patients' Families But few guardians shared these results with other care providers Dec 09, 2022
Looming Physician Pay Cut 'Unprecedented' and 'Unconscionable,' AMA President Says Number of doctors who take Medicare patients could dwindle without Congressional action Dec 02, 2022
Healthcare's Unspoken Sick-Day Rules Unchanged by the Pandemic Workplace COVID policies have changed, but attitudes toward coming into work sick have not Dec 01, 2022
Should Board Certification Organizations Have to Meet Particular Standards? AMA delegates debate the question, air their grievances with maintenance of certification Nov 17, 2022
AMA Edges Closer to Supporting Public Option Members will also oppose employer mandates requiring docs to sign contracts waiving due process Nov 16, 2022