Physician Issues
Issue Brief: Physician Quality Payment Program
President Trump yesterday nominated as U.S. surgeon general Jerome Adams, M.D., an anesthesiologist who has served as health commissioner for the state of Indiana. “Dr. Jerome Adams has served with distinction and has been a tireless champion of patients and public health during his tenure as…
The strategies that are empowering health care leaders to drive the transformation of America’s health care will take center stage July 27-29 at the 25th annual AHA Leadership Summit in San Diego.This year’s meeting will explore opportunities for advancing care coordination and quality and patient…
Sens. Bill Nelson (D-FL), Dean Heller (R-NV) and Charles Schumer (D-NY) last week introduced a Senate companion to the AHA-supported Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act (S. 1301), legislation that would add 15,000 Medicare-funded residency positions to alleviate physician shortages that…
AHA letter to Senator Bill Nelson expressing support for Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2017 (S. 1301).
The AHA’s Physician Leadership Forum will host a complimentary webinar June 8 on “The Art and Science of Storytelling to Engage and Inspire Health Care Teams.” For more information or to register, click here.
Physicians and nurses may be better at predicting survival than functional outcomes for critically ill patients, according to a study published yesterday by the Journal of the American Medical Association. Physicians and nurses in five intensive care units were asked to predict hospital survival,…
The AHA’s Physician Leadership Forum will host a free webinar March 17 on “Preventing Physician Burnout - What Hospital Leaders Can Do to Make a Difference.” For more information and to register for the webinar, from 2-3 p.m. ET, click here.
This week, the CDC launched a suite of new opioid prescribing guideline resources for providers, including a mobile app and video series. This is a follow-up to their CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain, launched last spring, to encourage safer and more effective pain management.
The rapid pace of change in health care, from delivery redesign to risk-based payment models to increased data reporting and interoperability, has clinician attention divided among many competing priorities and challenged to meet changing requirements while improving care delivery for a more…