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Issue Date: April 15, 2000
nternet Is Helping Physicians Treat Patients More Effectively, Koop Says
"The most important advice [to give to young doctors regarding the Internet] is not to be antagonistic toward the Internet. It will not separate doctors from patients as many people say technology does. Physicians who use the Internet properly can bind their patients closer to them by working in tandem to make the decisions that their patients will appreciate."
New Rules Threaten Multisite Groups
"Joint development of ancillary services is frequently one of the driving forces behind practice consolidations. If office-specific accounting were not a viable option for structuring medical groups to support ancillary service development, then many large-scale practice integration projects would never be undertaken."
Eleven Lessons Learned the Hard Way
"Perhaps the most important lesson of all is that a medical practice cannot adapt successfully to a changing environment if its physicians are not willing to make fundamental changes. Maintaining the status quo in a climate of rapid change may not only precipitate an organizational crisis, but also ultimately could result in the decline and fall of the organization."
Author Promotes Consumer-Driven Care
"One of the most important factors in developing a consumer-driven health care system will be the role of the federal government...to ensure that the intermediaries that provide health care information behave responsibly, that consumers have access to reliable information, that providers are held accountable, and that the uninsured have some way of accessing health insurance with the same tax protection of employed people."
Campbell Bill Would Level the Playing Field
"The public is growing increasingly wary and even alarmed because HMOs appear to make so many decisions about patient care. The motives of HMO administrators, their training, and qualifications for making care decisions, judging the appropriateness of care, and defining when and how care should be delivered are in doubt. These are functions doctors are trained to perform and so physicians should be able to define how they can serve as patient advocates most effectively."
California Physician Is Developing Direct Contracting Organization
"Physicians best suited for direct contracting are those whose practices experience high patient volumes, including primary care physicians and specialists, such as cardiologists."
Sheer Volume of Guidelines Suggests Problems Will Follow
"The results of these studies show that the problem of guideline compliance is complicated and will require a concerted effort on the part of cardiologists to solve. The study results also suggest that cardologists should begin to develop solutions because those imposed by managed care organizations are likely to be onerous."
Experts Question Safe Harbors’ Effect on ASCs
"The warning to investing physicians [those who invest in ambulatory surgery centers]is that they are entering a business situation and must think like business people."
Liver Transplant Surgery Exhibits Volume-Outcome Relationship
This article discusses the link between volume and outcomes in surgical procedures, as well as factors physicians should consider when referring patients to particular centers for surgery and treatment.
HIV Database Designed To Enhance Care, Facilitate Research
"Now we're seeing a substantial increase in the sophistication of databases, including the information they hold and how users can manipulate it. As a result, clinical databases are becoming increasingly important for enhancing and improving the quality of medical practice."
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