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Family medicine residency training programs this year attracted 101 more U.S. medical school graduates than in 2009, while internal medicine saw smaller growth in its primary care programs, according to National Residency Match Program.

Family and general internal medicine doctors each generate more than $1.6m in net revenue on behalf of their affiliated hospitals, according to a new study.

The Little Clinic, which operated in 8 states, reported that it would close 30 locations and exit 5 U.S. markets, according to an industry firm.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a monumental step toward providing Americans with affordable coverage, but there are uncertainties, according to the American College of Physicians.

Anemia increases the risk of death in patient who have had a heart attack and coronary angioplasty, according to new research.

From 1999 to 2009, compensation in academic practices continued to trail that in private practices, according to an MGMA survey.

Ask what you are getting for your practice in terms of your future as an employee and your exit strategy.

Home telemonitoring plus active medication management by a nurse practitioner resulted in greater reductions in A1C than did a monthly care coordination telephone call in patients with type 2 diabetes in a study reported in the March issue of Diabetes Care.

Your patients with chronic disease may use the Internet less than your other patients and also may remain more strongly connected to you and other offline sources of medical assistance, including friends, family, and books, compared with your other patients.

A new white paper released by the Department of Health and Human Services? Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology highlights five options and recommends additional research in relation to consumer consent possibilities for electronic health information exchange.

Remote monitoring reduced the median time to clinical decision compared with standard in-office follow-up for patients with cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators or implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, according to results of the prospective Clinical Evaluation of Remote Notification to Reduce Time to Clinical Decision trial recently released during the American College of Cardiology annual meeting.

The United States ranks in the bottom half among comparable countries in almost every metric used to measure the adoption of health information technology, according to the National Broadband Plan recently delivered to Congress by the Federal Communications Commission.

Whether you should rent or buy a place to live while you're a resident or on short-term assignment depends on the length of the position and whether you have long-term plans to stay in the area when it's finished.

If you're considering looking for a business loan for your practice now or in the future, you may want to consider your options.

Most physicians enter medicine as an ethical profession through which they can help people and earn a good income.

The rule of thumb for fair market value hasn't applied for some time, if ever.

Most people should consider purchasing term insurance.

If a borrower consolidated his or her school loans while still in school, then the borrower is eligible to reconsolidate those loans with loans that were obtained after the original consolidation.

The leader of the AAFP believes the healthcare reform bill is flawed but does benefit independent primary care physicians.

Almost half of Michigan residents who lacked insurance delayed seeking needed care, but so did 17 percent of those with health insurance.

Is your office space performing at its best? Try experiencing it the way your patients do, through the waiting room.

In 24 of 43 U.S. states, the two largest health insurers had a combined market share of 70 percent or more, according to an AMA survey.

The physician leader of a growing ob-gyn practice reported that electronic health records have become a mandatory recruiting tool to land physicians out of residency.

Goodwill value as an economic term, measured in dollars, is completely different from sociologic goodwill that you describe.

Although the practice of primary care medicine has always been fraught with change, at no time in history has what happens from here been more important.

Two physicians' groups urged changes to the CMS' proposed definition of meaningful use of an electronic health record in the days before the rule's public comment period closed in mid-March.

Know how to process diagnostic tests out of the office, as well as discussions with a patient's family when a patient is not present.

In my years of medical practice, I have learned how to approach patients with an appreciation for diversity.

In patients with type 2 diabetes at high risk for cardiovascular events, combination lipid therapy with fenofibrate and simvastatin does not reduce rate of cardiovascular events, compared with simvastatin alone.

I was surprised that no family member accompanied Howard for his major surgery.