November 5th, 2011 by Berci in Announcements
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There is a new social campaign being launched right now on Webicina.com that curates the medical resources of social media in 80 topics in 18 languages:
We receive hundreds of suggestions from empowered patients and medical professionals every week about which social media resources should be included in our selections, and we thought we must find a way to let them know how much we appreciate their help.
So now we kindly ask you to tell us your story about how social media helped you improve your health management or helped you get better in your specialty in order to win grand prizes.
As we curate resources in basically all the social media platforms, you can tell your story in any platforms from Twitter and Facebook to blogs and Youtube. Your submissions will be Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at ScienceRoll*
November 4th, 2011 by Happy Hospitalist in Research
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Want to know if your hospitalist compensation package is on par with other hospitalist groups around you? I have previously written about the results of the hospitalist salary compensation survey for 2010, 2011 (SHM and MGMA). The parabolic rise appears to have no end in site. Hospitalist demand continues to grow as witnessed by the rapid expansion of hospitalist subsidy/support payment for 2011, despite poor economic conditions.
Here’s another look at an exceptional 2011 Hospitalist Salary Survey done by the folks at Today’s Hospitalist. If you are a hospitalist, you owe it to yourself to stay well informed about what you are worth in the market place. As shown in the SHM/MGMA survey, hospitalist compensation Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at The Happy Hospitalist*
November 4th, 2011 by DavidHarlow in Health Policy, Opinion
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The final Accountable Care Organization regulations are out, the initial flurry of commentary is out (including my own ACO webinar with simultaneous #ACOchat tweetchat – available for replay; slides here : “ACOs, Bundled Payments and the Future of Health Care“), and we can now all catch our collective breath and contemplate the draft vs. final ACO regulation comparisons, the meaning of this new, final set of regulations, guidances and statements from CMS, FTC, DOJ, OIG, and IRS on ACOs and Medicare Shared Savings Programs, and all of the attendant antitrust, antikickback, Stark, and other fraud and abuse matters, and of course tax issues.
So, now that these final regulations are out, and the mythical characteristics of the ACO will soon be dispelled (see under: unicorn), I propose a new animal kingdom metaphor for discussion of Accountable Care Organizations:
The Camel’s Nose is in the Tent.
The definition of a camel, as those of you who tuned into my ACO webinar already know, is Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at HealthBlawg :: David Harlow's Health Care Law Blog*
November 4th, 2011 by Dr. Val Jones in Announcements
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Dear Medical Bloggers – Better Health is pleased to be hosting Grand Rounds on November 8th, 2011. Please submit your best post to us via email to dryden.epstein@getbetterhealth.com
Put “Grand Rounds Submission” in the subject line. Give us the link to your blog and the permalink to the post that you’d like us to feature – along with a brief description of the post.
There is no theme – as usual, we’d like to know what’s on your minds first and then if a theme shines through the submissions we’ll run with it!
We look forward to reading your posts!
Val Jones & Dryden Epstein
November 4th, 2011 by KerriSparling in True Stories
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A few weeks ago, I posted a photo and part of an email from a reader who had made an insulin pump-shaped cake for their daughter’s birthday. In that magical way of the Internet (where cats haz a cheeseburger and lovely little bean people talk about diabetes), another family with a kid pumping insulin caught the post, and baked up a little bolus of their own.
So, to kick off Diabetes Month here, I connected with Gwyneth’s mom, and Gwyneth emailed me her perspective on what it’s like to mark her first diaversary, which is TODAY. At the start of Diabetes Month. How’s that for timing? Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Six Until Me.*
