SPOTLIGHT -
Behind doctors' social networking Web sites
From top-dog Sermo to upstarts like Ozmosis.com and iMedExchange.com, the number of networking sites dedicated to physicians have proliferated recently.
How to make your practice more "green"
A few steps toward eco-friendliness could improve your practice - and your world.
Study: Web diagnoses often lead to "cyberchondria"
Have you recently visited with a patient suffering from "cyberchondria"?
Tech firm launches speech recognition for iPhones
Speech recognition has come to the iPhone.
EHRs could lower malpractice insurance costs, study says
Could adding an electronic health records system to your practice cut your malpractice insurance costs?
More insurers rating quality of doctors' care
Insurers are rating the quality of your care. Do you know what they're saying?
From PQRI to P4P?
If the federal government has its way, a quality reporting initiative from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services could pave the way toward establishing a pay-for-performance system.
Health-care IT: Georgia to launch consumer-focused "transparency" health Web site
Georgia plans to unveil in December a consumer-focused "transparency" health website that will contain quality and cost information on the state's hospitals.
Health-care IT: Study questions value of costly imaging technology
Though the use of computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging has skyrocketed in the last decade, the benefits of the technology's increased availability are not clear, according to a new study.
Legislation: FTC delays enforcement of ID theft regulations
Last month many physicians received a reprieve from the federal government ? and most probably didn?t even realize it.