Tania Zuniga, MD, specializes in family medicine at Mount Nittany Health. For more information visit www.mountnittany.org.
Tania Zuniga, MD, specializes in family medicine at Mount Nittany Health. For more information visit www.mountnittany.org.
Let me know if you want to actually want to help people, or just your company and stockholders.
Scoring approach would encourage patient engagement, security, information exchange.
Issues expected with implementations are leaving physicians concerned about their futures under the new reimbursement scheme.
8 physicians tell us what one thing they would do to improve the American health care system
Like every patient, I don’t want a burned-out, unhappy doctor who’s enslaved by his computer.
One worry about accountable care organizations is that their growth would lead to the consolidation of physician practices. A new study finds that concern has proven real.
Healthcare has seen a number of life-saving breakthroughs: vaccines, anesthesia, bypass surgery, the balloon catheter, and even decoding the human genome sequence. These have all changed the face of healthcare, transforming how we do things around here. But there’s one breakthrough which we have known is coming for a long time now.
Many physicians and medical researchers consider a patient's socioeconomic background to be as important as medical symptoms in addressing health.
A data-driven analysis of healthcare’s “bright spots”
So out in the varied land of hospital medicine, I have noticed something that I have no clear explanation for.
ainability of the health care workforce. Yet, ways of identifying and promoting resilience have been elusive. Resilience depends on individual, community, and institutional factors. The study by Zwack and Schweitzer in this issue of Academic Medicine illustrates that individual factors of resilience include the capacity for mindfulness, self-monitoring, limit setting, and attitudes that promote constructive and healthy engagement with (rather than withdrawal from) the often-difficult challenges…
While physicians are motivated to improve care quality, new frustrations with the complicated law coupled with change fatigue will bog doctors down.
The Clinical and Patient Benefits of Virtual Care<br>Telehealth has slowly been taking the healthcare industry by storm as more states allow for reimbursement of telehealth services, but physicians, primary care providers, and specialties have been slow to adopt...
"Dismal" trust levels could impede risk-based healthcare and payment models.
In order to change the way care is delivered, an individual outfit needs to have a sufficient percentage of its practice in a value-based world. That balance can be tricky but hospitals won't succeed without it.
Every encounter with a trafficked patient who isn't asked appropriate screening questions is a missed opportunity.
Dr. Gerald MaccioliSociety has rightly focused on the Triple Aim—improving population health, enhancing patient experience and reducing costs—as a framework for optimizing the performan
The ambulatory surgery center industry stands at a crossroads. With most areas of the country saturated with ASCs, net growth has stalled for the first time in recent history. The across-the-board elimination of out-of-network reimbursements has reduced profit margins at most ASCs, putting some facilities in peril and forcing others to take a hard look …
A change in culture requires women physicians to acknowledge that we are different from men and have different priorities.
The phenomenon of ‘point solution fatigue’ affecting physicians, providers, and payers.