Medscape Business of Medicine Podcast
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Latest medical news and features from Medscape Business of Medicine
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Healthcare Gone Missing: The State of the Union Address | Henry R. Black, MD, and Roxana Mehran, MD, talked with Medscape after the 2012 State of the Union address about why healthcare was missing and what that portends. | 1/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An ACO Visionary Talks Implementation, Healthcare Reform | Dr. Elliott Fisher of the Dartmouth Institute discusses the ins and out of ACOs and more. | 1/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dosing Errors in Kidney Patients: A Common UK-US Enemy | In this UK-US Skype conversation, Lynda Szczech and Donal O'Donoghue discuss their common enemy -- system problems and dosing errors in patient with kidney disease. | 12/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Better Ways to Get Payment From Self-Pay Patients | Getting payment from patients can be challenging, and it gets even worse when a new year starts and patients are grappling with deductibles. But there are numerous opportunities to increase the amount of self-pay you can bring in. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Find and Cut Wasted Time From Each Patient Visit | Doctors can speed up the patient visit without rushing or sacrificing quality. This lets a physician see more patients each day. Here's how to analyze the patient visit workflow. | 12/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Should Gay Doctors Reveal Their Orientation to Patients? | A religious radio host recently exhorted parents to avoid gay doctors. An ethics expert talks about patients’ right to select their physicians and doctors’ rights to be open about their lives. | 11/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Three Challenges That ICD-10 Brings to Doctors | ICD-10 will have a huge impact on physicians' daily lives and revenue. It's important to make the transition smooth and be ready, or the practice could end up losing significant money when billing. | 11/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Boosting Profits: How to Increase Staff Efficiency | Sometimes the wrong staff members are inadvertently doing the wrong things. Hidden office inefficiencies can cost a practice money. Here's how to solve that problem. | 11/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Small Practices Can Prosper Even Now - Here's How | Despite challenges to small- and medium-sized practices, there are ways to tap into the unique advantages of smaller practices and ask yourself questions that can bolster your profits. | 11/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Will the New ACO Rules Affect Doctors' Daily Practice? | CMS Administrator Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, and Richard J. Gilfillan, MD, Acting Director, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, discuss the final ACO rules and how they will affect doctors. | 10/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Will New Tests Promote Abortion of an 'Undesired Sex' Fetus? | New noninvasive tests that screen for genetic disease in a fetus can also tell the baby's sex in the seventh week. This could lead to gender selection, but doctors don't need to go along with it. | 10/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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$$$$ Reward if Bachmann Proves Vaccine Causes 'Retardation' | Bioethicist Arthur Caplan, PhD, offers $10,000 if GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann proves that taking the HPV vaccine for cervical cancer has led to "retardation," as she recently claimed. | 9/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Noncompliant vs Noncooperative Patients: Treat Them Differently? | An ethics expert says that patients who refuse to adhere to recommended care differ from those who want to but fall short of their good intentions. The way you deal with each could affect the results. | 9/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Concierge Practice: Unjust for Patients and Doctors Alike | Concierge medicine is gaining in popularity, and physicians claim that doctors are entitled to practice the way they want and patients enjoy this. Ethics expert Art Caplan, PhD, says it's an unfair arrangement. | 8/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Senator Coburn on Medicaid: Let the Market Decide | Tom Coburn, one of 3 physicians in the US Senate, discusses the realities of Medicaid in today's healthcare system and the struggles faced by healthcare providers and patients. | 6/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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E-Prescribe by January -- Here's How | Donald M. Berwick, MD, of the CMS provides specific advice and resources for implementing e-prescribing into your practice. | 6/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Should Prisoners 'Redeem' Themselves by Donating Organs? | A murderer on death row wants to donate his organs, but does that provide prisoners with an undeserved emotional reprieve? Other issues are also critical. | 4/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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HHS Unlocks Health Data to Empower Public Health | HHS Chief Technology Officer Park describes their goal of developing useful, fun, and powerful apps and tools so healthcare professionals and consumers can enjoy using data to improve healthcare. | 3/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Call to Address the Cancer Drug Shortage | As shortages of cancer drugs worsen, Dr. Maurie Markman advocates that healthcare clinicians lobby elected representatives to resolve the shortages and prevent compromises to patient outcomes. | 3/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sen. Tom Daschle: The Rocky Road to the Affordable Care Act | Senator Tom Daschle reveals the highs and lows of the battle behind the Affordable Care Act and how it could have been done differently. | 3/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Are You Prescribing Unapproved Drugs? | Some drugs that are currently on the market have never been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). | 3/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Use Social Media and EHRs for Better Care: Video Profile | This video profile from Health 2.0 shows how Enoch Choi, a family physician, employs electronic health records and social media to improve his practice. | 2/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Safe Use of Drugs Requires Reports From Clinicians | The Safe Use Initiative is taking aim at adverse drug events and seeks input on safety issues encountered by frontline clinicians. | 2/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Separating Docs From Industry -- A Witch Hunt? | Frank Veith, MD, believes that the initiative to separate physicians from industry is excessive and can lead to harm for patients. What do you think? | 2/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is the CMS Rule for the ESRD Quality Incentive Program Adequate? | Jeffrey Berns, MD, discusses the new metrics for the ESRD Quality Improvement Program from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and asks whether they are sufficient for a wide spectrum of patients. | 2/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stop Hounding Patients to Give Up Their Privacy | Many people think that privacy of medical treatment should not apply to everyone. An ethics expert tells why privacy protects all of society. | 2/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Not a 'Death Panel': Call it 'Quality of Life' | Even if you don't get paid for it, here's what you need to make clear to your patients about end-of-life planning. | 2/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is Healthcare a Right or a Privilege? | Dr. John Marshall asks: If health insurance is a choice that individuals can opt not to have, who pays for the care of the 40 million people in the United States who have no healthcare insurance? | 2/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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FDA Commissioner: "Safety Science" Key to Drug Regulation | Dr. Margaret Hamburg talks with Dr. Eli Adashi about the complex role of the US Food and Drug Administration in approving new drugs while still ensuring their safety. | 2/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is the CMS Rule for the ESRD Quality Incentive Program Adequate? | Jeffrey Berns, MD, discusses the new metrics for the ESRD Quality Improvement Program from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and asks whether they are sufficient for a wide spectrum of patients. | 2/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Obama Didn't Say -- An Alternative Viewpoint | Thomas Ahlborn, MD, responds to the State of the Union message and expresses his concern and offers alternative solutions for healthcare issues that President Obama did not address. | 1/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Obama Didn't Say -- The Supportive Position | Robert Morrow, MD, stressed what Obama left out and is encouraged by the future implementation of many positive changes, particularly for primary care. | 1/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Science in One Room, Homeopathy in the Next? | Paul A. Offit, MD, attended a recent medical meeting where scientific presentations appeared side-by-side with exhibitors touting Oscillococcinum, a homeopathic remedy for influenza. | 1/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Autism and the MMR Vaccine, Revisited | BMJ outs Andrew Wakefield as an "elaborate fraud." Paul A. Offit, MD, offers his perspective on the lessons we should learn from this saga. | 1/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bevacizumab: Is Cost the Elephant in the Room? | Dr. Kathy Miller says that drug approval in the United States jumbles issues of cost and benefit and that a discussion is long overdue to determine what we want from medicine and how to pay for it. | 1/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Double Espresso vs Prostate Cancer | Andrew Vickers, Medscape's biostatistician, strolls down Brooklyn sidewalks swigging multiple cups of coffee and asking, "Am I preventing advanced prostate cancer?" | 12/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Which Drugs Would You Charge to Your Credit Card? | Dr. John Marshall addresses the issue of how to define the value of drugs and proposes a scorecard by which regulators would have multiple targets to define the worth of drugs for approval purposes. | 12/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why Do Patients "Disrespect" Doctors? | When physicians make patients feel like it's "business first, patient care second," they may lose their patients' respect, says Dr. Gerald Chodak. | 12/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EHRs Create Startling New Moral Quandaries | As more physicians use EHRs, more ethical issues arise, including patient privacy issues. Also, is it unethical not to use computer technology? | 12/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Watch Out! New Problems Coming Your Way | In the next 5 years, new ethical dilemmas will confront doctors. Dr. Arthur Caplan describes these upcoming issues. | 12/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Something Old, Something New -- ACOs Are Lumbering Down the Aisle | Robert Morrow, MD, recalls Risk Sharing, a decade old initiative that reminds him of the new Accountable Care Organizations -- and he's worried. | 11/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Your Malpractice Advisor: Legal Risks From Your Answering Service | A malpractice attorney describes the malpractice dangers that can arise from your answering service and tells doctors what they need to do to prevent them. | 11/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Do Physician Payments Bias Their Treatment Recommendations? | If a given diagnosis were covered by 1 lump sum, would physicians recommend less expensive treatments more often? Dr. Gerald Chodak examines the issue. | 11/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Compassionate Disability Allowance: Advocating for the Seriously Ill Heart Patient | Dr. Ileana Piña reports on her experience representing the AHA at a Social Security Administration hearing where she advocated for compassionate disability allowance. | 11/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The 3 Key Parts of EHR Meaningful Use -- Prescribing, Sharing, and Measuring Quality | Ileana Piña talks about electronic health records and clarifies meaningful use. | 11/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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End-of-Life Ethics: Family Members, Conflict, and Politics | Physicians often deal with end-of-life conflicts that involve the patient, the family members, and politics. There are certain key principles to keep in mind. | 11/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Are Higher Health Costs in the Interest of Health Insurers? | Robert Morrow, MD, has his own take on why health costs are going up -- and he focuses on private insurers. | 11/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rework but Do Not Repeal Healthcare Reform | Flawed as the Affordable Care Act may be, it provides important healthcare benefits to patients, which Dr. Kathy Miller worries may be lost if the law is repealed. | 11/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 48 Episodes |
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