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Physician Designs Mobile App to Help Patients

Monitoring your blood pressure and blood glucose levels can help you manage your diabetes or even keep from becoming diabetic altogether — and an...
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Physicians Say Blockchain Healthcare Ideas Need an Examination

While there’s a lot of hype over blockchain in healthcare, some who work in the industry say that the product pitches so far are...
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Problem: Decreasing Latino physicians as population increases

Celida Lizarraga doesn’t remember seeing many doctors who looked like her when she had to translate for her parents during medical visits. The 17-year-old said...
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Only Physicians Should Participate in Federal Diabetes Program, Says AAFP

The AAFP told a federal agency recently to be careful of moving too far in its proposal to expand the number of clinicians who...
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How a hurricane brought a hospital team closer together

It turns out that South Carolina is having a busy hurricane season. Recently, Charleston County was under a mandatory evacuation in anticipation of Hurricane...
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More doctors needed in rural areas as demand for health care...

The demand for doctors around the country continues to increase, but it's rural communities right in Wisconsin that are the most under-served. High rates of...
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Why do hospitals feed their staff so poorly?

I recently visited a friend who works at Google and was pleasantly surprised by the Bay-area tech giant’s health-promotion efforts. Its crowded cafeteria offered...
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Doctors see potential revenue boost under Medicare changes, telehealth

Primary care physicians stand to earn additional revenue starting Jan. 1 under Medicare's new fee schedule for care coordination of chronically ill patients and...
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GOP May Thwart Obamacare’s Huge Pay Raise For Doctors

A huge pay raise under the Affordable Care Act for primary care doctors who treat the nation’s poor covered by Medicaid health insurance is...