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Issue Date: October 15, 2000
Former FBI Agent Says Physicians Unprepared for Compliance Rules
This story discusses compliance issues; notably, what actions are likely to trigger an investigation, the four categories of investigation, what to do if targeted for an investigation, and how to help ensure compliance in order to avoid an investigation in the first place.
Two Contrasting Views of Physician Practice Today
This editorial discusses how today's health care system is making the practice of medicine more difficult than it should be, and it suggests ways for physicians to use information technology to improve their efficiency and productivity.
Computers Connect Sprawling Practice
This story looks at how a large primary care physician group is using information technology to link 165 physicians in 54 locations. The story discusses how the information system was set up, the costs involved, the benefits of the system, and more.
Attorneys Offer Compliance Advice
This story looks at reimbursement compliance issues and lists five specific steps physicians should take before they begin to design and implement a compliance program.
Hopkins Transforms Its Practice Plan
This story describes how The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine developed and implemented a strategic practice plan to become more competitive in its health care market.
Career Counselors Say Options Open to Physicians Seeking New Opportunities
This interview discusses some career options available to physicians and how physicians can use the services of CareerLab to help them in their career decisions.
Why Do Hospitals Fail at Management?
This column responds to a reader's question about the inability of hospitals to manage the physician practices they acquire. It argues that tightly and vertically integrated delivery systems featuring hospitals, HMOs, and physicians in one organization are not the answer to this problem.
Experts Outline Five Strategies for Gastroenterologists
This article discusses five practice strategies that have proven to be successful for gastroenterologists in some markets, outlining the benefits and issues to consider for each.
HMOs, Heart Patients Failing To Use Data on Cardiology Outcomes
This story discusses the results of a study on hospital admission information on 58,000 adults who underwent CABG surgery. One of the study's key findings was that managed care patients were less likely to be admitted to low-mortality centers. The story also discusses the surge of Internet firms that are providing consumers and physicians with cost and quality data to help them in their decisions about where to go for care.
Critical Care Society Recommends Enhanced Surgeon Training
This article discusses critical care training and the efforts of the Society of Critical Care Medicine to educate physicians and others about the importance and benefits of such training.
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