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Managed Care September 2002 Michael S. Victoroff	Peer Review of the Inexpert Witness, or Do You Trust Chickens To Guard the Coop? Occasionally, a physician retained as an expert in a legal case offers an opinion or gives testimony that is dubious, inaccurate, or outlandish enough to offend fellow professionals. Our medical society was urged to discipline physicians who render unprofessional testimony.
BusinessWeek April 23, 2009 Catherine Arnst	Doctors' Pride: A Hurdle to Digital Medicine A forerunner in New England found that some physicians would sooner cut ties than see their elite status threatened.
Fast Company May 2009 Ellen McGirt	Why Electronic Health Records Are Worth the Hype -- and the Price The push for electronic medical records has stirred controversy -- but their potential is immeasurable.
Managed Care April 2000 Tim Olsen	Physician, Tarnish Not Thine Image Doctors who use the news media to criticize others, rather than initiate a constructive dialog about difficult issues such as antibiotic resistance, help erode the profession's influence.
Managed Care September 2004 Tony Berberabe	Can Physician and Health Plan Get Together Over Guidelines? Physicians are not the only problem. Health plans too often view guidelines as rigid routines rather than flexible aids to good practice.
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Robert N. Charette	Dying for Data A comprehensive system of electronic medical records promises to save lives and cut health care costs -- but how do you build one? The many technical, social, and political issues are also formidable.
AskMen.com Tara Weiss	Reasons Not To Become A Doctor There were once many rewards to being in the medical profession. For decades, doctors earned hefty paychecks, had autonomy and respect. Those benefits are fading, and as a result, so is the number of doctors.
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2006 Richard B. Vanderveer	The Information Diet How, when, and why physicians consume information.
Managed Care July 2000 John Carroll	Electronic Medical Records: If Not Now, When? The technology's been around, but early participants often were burned. New Internet-based products threaten to turn nonbelievers into yesterday's news.
Managed Care November 2002 Sharon Baker	Applause, Catcalls Greet Retainer Medicine Proponents tout personalized care and easy access, and imply superior health care. Critics fear "elitist" practices.
CIO August 1, 2003 Sarah D. Scalet	Paperless Medicine Saving Money, Saving Lives Health-care CIOs face intense pressure to install electronic medical records and order-entry systems, in spite of physician resistance and large up-front costs. Here's how early adopters are overcoming the obstacles.
CIO August 1, 2005 Susannah Patton	An End to Medical Forms? Patients could keep all their medical information online using iHealthRecord, a new service that Medem (a joint venture of the American Medical Association and six other medical societies) introduced in May.
PC Magazine November 28, 2007 Dan Costa	Your Body, Online The idea of having my medical records out there freaks me out, but the truth is, they are already out there: My doctor has paper files, my insurance company has databases, and I have very little control.
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2005 Lena Chow	Docs of Shanghai They're short on status, pay, and respect, but China's young doctors hold keys to the world's fastest growing pharmaceutical market.
CIO September 23, 2009 Kim S. Nash	Booster Shot for E-Health How federal stimulus spending will impact the rollout of electronic medical records.
Managed Care August 2001	Four Views of Managed Care Ethics The evolution of managed care has posed ethical problems for physicians, plan administrators, and even patients. Four ethicists find that questions are many, while satisfactory answers are in short supply...
The Motley Fool September 10, 2009 Anders Bylund	Dell Makes a Healthy Move Dell is joining a stable of tech stallions in the electronic health records race.
Managed Care August 2004 Michael S. Victoroff	We Don't Serve Your Kind! When physicians think it is acceptable to withhold care from lawyers involved in malpractice suits, does it signal a breakdown of the social order?
Managed Care October 2005 Bob Carlson	What Docs Hate Most About Plans Some insurers seem to have a knack for irritating their network physicians. The list is long, but five categories of irritants seem to recur most often.
Managed Care August 2005 Neil Versel	Can a Health Plan's Free EMR 'Lite' Be Useful to Doctors & Hospitals? Insurers may not need to look any further than existing claims data to build useful payer-based electronic medical records.
Managed Care June 2005 Martin Sipkoff	The Re-Emergence of the Primary Care Physician A new model of care developed by the American Academy of Family Physicians places primary care physicians back at the center of care delivery.
Managed Care July 2000 John A. Marcille	EMR: New Idea Collides With Old Human Nature What would "Give-'Em-Hell Harry" make of electronic medical records?...
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Managed Care December 2002 Diane Cook	Beware the Hidden Consequences of the Malpractice Crisis Soaring malpractice insurance rates are thinning out provider ranks in at least a dozen states. Could access problems pose issues for HMOs in those areas?
CRM August 1, 2009 Lauren McKay	Healing the Sick Facing regulatory requirements, spiraling costs, and an aging (and ailing) customer base, the healthcare industry looks to CRM to balance a pair of age-old doctrines: First, do no harm - and physician, heal thyself.
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2006	Unraveling the eSource Industry-wide standards for electronic patient data have long felt like buried treasure. Companies today are getting closer - by way of a tangled map.
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2006 Musacchio & Hunkler	More Than a Game of Keep Away The Prescribing Data Restriction Program takes effect in July. The AMA explains how individual doctors can keep their prescribing habits safe from reps, and how pharma can keep using the anonymous data -- if the industry polices itself.
Salon.com December 1, 1999 James B. Stewart	Who's watching the docs? The code of silence in hospitals allows deadly mistakes to happen, but some simple reforms could help...
AskMen.com April 15, 2001 Joshua Levine	Choosing The Right Doctor Choosing a doctor is one of the most important decisions you can make. It's probably best made when you are healthy and have some time to think about a number of possibilities. If you don't have a doctor or are thinking about changing doctors, now may be the best time to look...
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Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2006 John Ryder	Sales Management: Palm-sized Payoff Reps are gaining access to detail-adverse physicians by offering large software content in small packages.
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2005 Ame Wadler	PR: In the Loop Pharma marketers can help doctors stay abreast of the news.
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Managed Care October 2000 Maureen Glabman	Giving Some Ground to Physicians Helped Turn Health System Around One hospital system accepted the general wisdom a few years ago by acquiring physician practices. Now it bucks the new wisdom by holding on to them...
Managed Care December 2007 John Carroll	How Doctors Are Paid Now, And Why It Has to Change Everyone knows about the perverse incentive of fee-for-service medicine, but that hasn't had much effect on its use.
Managed Care August 2000	Internet revolution not yet impressing most physicians For all the potential of the Internet to erase old physician doubts about integrating information technology into everyday practice, scant few doctors have embraced it.
Bio-IT World March 2006 Charles Firneno	Physician Portals Fill the Gap Multifunctional physician/patient portals can provide insight into value and product performance issues. Such insight can be combined with medical claims and pharmacy data as well as with blinded safety data to provide an organic view of product performance.
Managed Care December 2005 Ricardo Guggenheim	Putting EBM To Work (Easier Said Than Done) Through widespread implementation of evidence-based medicine, the United States has its best chance of erasing the variations in care that currently extract such huge costs -- both human and financial -- from the health care system.
Managed Care July 2003 Ed Silverman	A Little Something For the Physicians Health plans know that getting along with physicians is important, and many are trying new initiatives. Here are some successes.
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Financial Advisor December 2006 Raymond Fazzi	Strong Financial Medicine Specializing in health care professionals is an advisory specialty that is now both worthwhile and in high demand because of the complexity of issues that come along with serving medical practitioners.
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Managed Care November 2004 John Carroll	Electronic Medical Records: High Hopes Meet Harsh Reality Nobody doubts that the electronic medical record will promote better medicine, but at what cost? And to whom? Providers fear that they will bear the weight.