Hospital/physician relations
Ambulatory healthcare businesses, which include outposts like doctors offices, dentists offices, outpatient centers and clinics among others, added 18,500 jobs in the month.
Clinicians will also be able to bill, and be paid, more appropriately when they spend more time with their patients.
The announcement comes on the heels of a failed merger bid between Southcoast and Care New England, which would have created the third largest health system in Massachusetts.
2015 survey found 15 percent of pediatric residents at Stanford had experienced, witnessed mistreatment of medical residents by patients or families.
ASU plans to build a 150,000-square-foot medical facility that will house Mayo's new medical school, as well as a medical technology innovation accelerator and biomedical engineering research labs.
More than 65 million ED mental health visits reported, substance abuse behind 41 percent of them, results show.
30 percent of all health spending, $750 billion, is wasted on fraud, administration and needless procedures, estimate says.
Spending was driven by increases in drug unit prices rather than an increase in the volume of drugs used, report says.
Previously, he served one year as president-elect, four years as speaker and three years as vice speaker of the AAFP's governing body, the Congress of Delegates.
As many as 1.4 million seniors survive a stay in the ICU every year; most go home, with varying degrees of disability.