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Sixty percent of clinicians in practices with 26 or more clinicians report use of one of 10 electronic health record products

Large Practices Focused on Small Selection of EHR Products

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Sixty percent of responses from clinicians in large practices were from users of 10 EHR products
For physicians who want to transition to private practice

Tips Provided for Doctors Who Want to Move to Private Practice

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Physicians should prepare carefully; consider finances, legal issues, and insurance
Salary disparities exist between male and female internal medicine residency program directors

Gender Salary Gap for Internal Medicine Program Directors

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Mode salary for men $200-225,000 versus $175-200,000 for women; difference persisted since 2008
Implementation of appropriate use criteria is associated with a reduction in percutaneous coronary intervention use and with cost savings

ACC: AUC Implementation Cuts PCI Volume, Costs

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Consistent decline in volume of percutaneous coronary intervention and associated costs
For uninsured adults

Pre-ACA, Average Price of PCP Appointment $160 for Uninsured

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Prices significantly lower at family care practice office, in offices in ZIP codes with higher poverty rates
Physicians should use standard billing practices

Strategies Provided for Maximizing Payment

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Intake forms should remind patients of their responsibility for paying bills, collection costs

American College of Physicians, April 30-May 2

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The American College of Physicians' Internal Medicine 2015 The annual meeting of the American College of Physicians (ACP) was held from April 30...
A surveillance system for health care facilities can be used to identify and help reduce the number of preventable injuries among health care personnel

CDC: Surveillance System Can Help Reduce Health Care Injuries

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Nurse assistants and nurses found to have highest injury rates among all occupations examined
Electronic health records are a valuable source of data that can be mined to help practices with quality improvement performance

EHR Data Mining Helps With Quality Improvement

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Data mining tools, including health maintenance alerts, reports, are available in EHR products
Computerized clinical decision-support capabilities of electronic health records may improve appropriate use of diagnostic radiologic test ordering and reduce test use

EHR Decision Support Ups Radiologic Test Appropriateness

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Harms of computerized clinical decision-support capabilities of EHR rarely assessed