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Health Courts and Mediation Alternatives
https://reachmd.com/programs/clinicians-roundtable/health-courts-and-mediation-alternatives/5808/Though tort reform has been an elusive goal for some state lawmakers and Congress, health reform will bring grants to come up with alternative medical liability reform initiatives. But meanwhile, some medical providers have developed their own answers. Max Brown, Vice President and General Counsel tMedicare 101 for PAs: Understanding Billing
https://reachmd.com/programs/partners-in-practice/medicare-101-for-pas-understanding-billing/5782/Medicare and physician assistants both entered the healthcare field in the 1960s, but despite their similar ages, physician assistants don't always understand Medicare. Complicated rules and seeming inconsistencies can lead physician assistants to make billing errors — and avoiding these errors is mNew Benefits for Children Under the Healthcare Reform Law
https://reachmd.com/programs/focus-on-childrens-health/new-benefits-for-children-under-the-healthcare-reform-law/5698/As the health reform law breaks down hurdles to medical care coverage until it is fully implemented in 2014, the nation's children will be among the first benefactors during the first year of the law's implementation. Ron Pollack, founding executive director of Families USA, a Washington-based advocAMA House of Delegates: Strategies for Better Care Coordination
https://reachmd.com/programs/advances-in-long-term-care-medicine/ama-house-of-delegates-strategies-for-better-care-coordination/5675/There's often a disconnect in the continuity of care, creating inefficiency and increased healthcare costs. How can our healthcare system better coordinate transitions of care, especially for patients with chronic conditions? How can we create a system that incentives better coordination of care andWhat's the Wait Time in the ED? A PA Helped Create an App For That
https://reachmd.com/programs/partners-in-practice/whats-the-wait-time-in-the-ed-a-pa-helped-create-an-app-for-that/5670/When patients go to the emergency department for a non-life-threatening emergency, it seems impossible to predict how long the wait could be to see a medical provider. But now patients in New Britain, Connecticut, can plan their care by checking their iPhone. Physician assistant Jeremy Allen talks wEvidence-Based Medicine: Bringing Together the Art and Science of Clinical Practice
https://reachmd.com/programs/proto-dispatches-from-the-frontiers-of-medicine/evidence-based-medicine-bringing-together-the-art-and-science-of-clinical-practice/5515/Evidence-based medicine is a movement that assumes care will be better, safer, and more cost-efficient when physicians base clinical judgments on solid empirical science instead of clinical observation and experience. But who creates such guidelines, how good is the evidence underlying them, and whyThe Benefits of Therapeutic Exercise and Physical Activity in Long Term Care
https://reachmd.com/programs/advances-in-long-term-care-medicine/the-benefits-of-therapeutic-exercise-and-physical-activity-in-long-term-care/5387/As people are living longer than ever before with a variety of chronic conditions, modified physical activity can help older patients regain or retain functionality. Indeed, physical therapy is also essential to the recovery of patients who have undergone elective or emergency surgeries. What distinThe Vision for a Healthy and Fit Nation
https://reachmd.com/programs/focus-on-childrens-health/the-vision-for-a-healthy-and-fit-nation/5297/Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin has two new priorities: to combat childhood obesity and to encourage all Americans to put their health histories online. So how do practitioners get involved in these new government initiatives? Rear Admiral Michael Milner, assistant surgeon general and chief of tTicking Time Bomb: Limiting Antibiotic Resistance in Long Term Care
https://reachmd.com/programs/advances-in-long-term-care-medicine/ticking-time-bomb-limiting-antibiotic-resistance-in-long-term-care/5284/Multi-drug resistant organisms (MRDOs), such as Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), due to antibiotic use are of significant concern. Not only hospitals, but also long-term care facilities, are particularly susceptible to the impact of antibiotic resistance. Dr. Paul Drinka, clinicalFDA: Product Confusion with Maalox Total Relief and Maalox Liquid Products
https://reachmd.com/programs/FDA-Drug-Information-Updates/fda-product-confusion-with-maalox-total-relief-and-maalox-liquid-products/5280/The FDA has issued a public health advisory regarding serious medication errors that have arisen when consumers used Maalox Total Relief, the upset stomach reliever and anti-diarrheal medication,by mistake, when they had intended to use one of the traditional Maalox liquid antacid products.