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The use of home use medical devices will ramp up as telehealth takes off, according to a report from British medical research company InMedica.

Healthcare reform can "catalyze healthcare innovation that improves quality and reduces cost, if only investors, policy-makers, and companies rise to the challenge before us," according to a new report by healthcare venture capital firm Psilos Group.

The non-profit National Quality Forum has formed the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) to guide its ongoing work in health information technology.

One in five consumers rated their interest in accessing personal health records through a secure Internet connection as high, said they would switch physicians to obtain access, and indicated that they would be very likely to use a mobile communication device to access them, according to the third annual Deloitte Center for Health Solutions Survey of Health Care Consumers.

The estate tax will come back into effect on January 1, 2011.

Autonomous motivation is a potential intervention target for increasing adherence to self-monitoring in a weight-loss program and weight loss itself, according to new research.

More than 43 percent of primary care providers received some form of additional compensation for on-call coverage, according to a new survey.

Higher nut consumption is linked to lower serum cholesterol levels, especially among individuals with higher baseline low-density lipoprotein cholesterol or lower body mass index, according to new research.

Discover whether there's a rule requiring a 401(K) deposit by a certain date.

The proposed use of immediate annuities seems to be gaining popularity as a cure for battered retirement funds.

Starting in 2013, the Medicare tax will increase from 2.9% to 3.8% for couples earning more than $250,000.

After nearly a year of intense negotationas, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as healthcare reform, has become law. The question you're probably asking is, "What does this mean for me, my practice and my patients?

When dealing with wrathful patients, consider some humble insights on interacting with them that may be helpful.

Physicians suggest the health reform overhaul does not address the day-to-day frustrations you face running a practice and will only add to the bureaucracy with little financial benefit.

Understand how to bill inpatient services.

Older women receiving an annual large dose of vitamin D3 may have an increased risk of falls and fractures, according to researchers from the University of Melbourne in Geelong, Australia.

Learn about exemption for regular and Roth IRAs.

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine will launch the first three-year medical degree approved by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education.

Understand more about the exemption from Social Security tax and how it interacts with the Medicare tax.

Nearly one in 10 internists originally certified between 1990 and 1995, including 17 percent of general internists and 4 percent of internal medicine subspecialists, are no longer working in general internal medicine or one of its subspecialties about a decade after their original certification, according to a survey.

It's no secret that the workload for primary care physicians is increasing and that the current shortage of PCPs is predicted to escalate during the next 10 to 15 years.

Nurses who are interrupted while administering medication appear to have an increased risk of making medication errors, according to a new report.

Choosing primary care over a specialty career costs physicians an estimated $2.7 million in potential lifetime earnings and wealth, according to an analysis.

An estate is liable under a lease.

A bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that would require all physicians and hospitals to publicly disclose prices met opposition in the first hearings earlier this month.

The increasing prevalence of electronic health records should help address the issue of illegible medical records in the future. If you write notes by hand, however, you must take the time to ensure that your medical records are legible, accurate, and specific. We share pointers to help you communicate with other healthcare professionals and create a good legal document for evidence should one be needed.

In more than half of elderly patients seen in primary care with a complaint of dizziness, cardiovascular disease is a contributing factor, and adverse drug effect is a contributing factor in about one-fourth of patients, according to research.

Electronic health record systems can help medical practices improve their design and payment structures, according to one doctor?s examination of his five-physician internal medicine practice, published in the April 29 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.