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No one educates young physicians on how to tell your own family that someone is dying or how to balance your grief and sadness with your family's request for medical knowledge.

When a U.S. resident is sent abroad for treatment by a managed car company, does a patient have any available recourse if he or she is a victim of negligence?

Technology has improved medical care immensely in the past two centuries, yet the profession struggles with how to use it most effectively.

A non-profit and a research network at Syracuse University have forged a partnership to develop a database for consumer medical care reimbursement.

Although much attention is being paid to software solutions, gadget and tool providers continue to release new equipment options.

Various areas of coding, including PQRI measures, ophthalmology consults, are addressed

The California office of administrative law rejected a proposal that would have expanded the scope of practice of psychologists and potentially all other health care practitioners.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program has announced the funding of 111 projects in 35 states via $34.9 million in grants designed to expand access to health care services and increase educational opportunities in rural areas via telecommunications, computer networks, and other resources.

Physician smartphone adoption rates will experience significant growth over the next few years, according to the latest physician report from Manhattan Research. Currently, 64 percent of U.S. physicians own smartphones, but this rate will increase to 81 percent in 2012, according to the report.

Companies that work with healthcare organizations and handle private patient information are largely unprepared to meet the new data breach-related obligations included in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act.

Google has launched a Web site, www.google.com/flushot, to help people locate the locations nearest to them at which H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccines are available.

Doctors in the United States and Canada lag behind other countries in the use of electronic health records, according to responses of 10,000 physicians in 11 countries queried for the 2009 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey.

Disability insurance, disability policy cost and tax obligations while training overseas are all addressed

Disability insurance, disability policy cost and tax obligations while training overseas are all addressed

Senate shelved bill that would have cut out the method which CMS uses to calculate physician fees

Get your questions answered on how to become a better manager, and how to cut down on training time for new employees.

Government's fiscal policy can positively and negatively impact economy.

Various areas of coding, including preventive care, smoking cessation, are addressed

Vermont physicians will get thre years' free access to an e-prescribing program thanks to a federal grant

Hand-washing more likely when others are watching

First-year enrollment in U.S. medical schools up 2 percent

AAFP forges partnership to help members and physicians select EHR vendor

Disability insurance, disability policy cost and tax obligations while training overseas are all addressed

HITECH has new requirements regarding business associates and notification of patients regarding breaches of unsecured protected health information.

What to do with presented with requests from insurance companies for more patient information

In the past decade, there was a sharp increase in medical liability premiums, but recently, malpractice insurance has started to level off, indicating a potential new trend.

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The former head of Google Health has launched a new website, Keas.com, in an effort to provide individualized care plans.

The state of Rhode Island has launched a new system for tracking H1N1 flu that uses prescribing data provided by pharmacies throughout the state via a secure electronic link. Enabled by the state's e-prescribing and the digital healthcare infrastructure, the system is believed to be the first of its kind.

A new study published in Health Affairs finds that hospitals that disproportionately care for low-income patients are falling behind in adopting electronic health records.