Archive for March 15th, 2009

The March/April 2009 Issue of Health Affairs concentrates on the topic of Stimulating Health Information Technology. Although I am not a subscriber to Health Affairs the issue looks to have some great articles on health information technology and the current changes in the field.
Included in the issues is a report from the field article by [...]

A study recent came out showing that specialists are providing a greater proportion of primary care services to patients.
According to the Annals of Family Medicine, “Researchers looked at more than 1 billion ambulatory visits to U.S. office-based specialists in 2002-04 and found that 46.3% of visits were for routine follow-up and preventive care of patients [...]

Hospitalists are here to stay, for good.
MedPage Today reports on a NEJM study, not surprisingly concluding that “hospitalists now account for nearly 40% of inpatient Medicare claims for general internist services, up from less than 10% in 1995.”
That’s a lot.


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