Continuing medical education
10:38 am
September 23, 2013
The American College of Physicians announced Monday the release of its ACP Smart Medicine, a web-based clinical decision support tool, developed specifically for internal medicine physicians. It contains 500 modules that provide guidance and information on a broad range of diseases and conditions.
09:23 am
July 24, 2013
Starting in 2015, doctors in Massachusetts will have to show health IT meaningful use proficiency as a condition for medical licensing, leaving some doctors not fully participating or complying with the federal incentive program worried.
12:39 pm
June 12, 2013
As in many fields, it's taken for granted that a physician's education never really ends. But when it comes to continuing medical education, many healthcare stakeholders believe that the current system is, in a nutshell, broken.
01:25 pm
May 01, 2013
For the first time ever, Karen Rheuban, MD, won't be attending the American Telemedicine Association's International Meeting & Trade Show. But she has a good reason.
09:38 am
July 01, 2012
The mHealth Alliance is joining forces with a global consortium of organizations and vendors to push mHealth as a means of improving child health in developing countries.
01:10 pm
June 06, 2012
Toward the end of last month, Mike Sevilla, MD, spoke to a crowd of 100 people at the Connecting Healthcare + Social Media Conference, about why physicians ought to be on social media. Although multiple such outlets exists -- Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn -- none have appealed quite so strongly to physicians as Twitter.
10:47 am
April 12, 2012
Harvard's Joslin Diabetes Center and Dallas-based Phytel will collaborate to study the value of current assessment methods for continuing medical education (CME) programs.
11:54 am
April 11, 2012
Researchers at Stanford University have designed an interactive case-based online activity to help clinicians prevent and treat sepsis, a life-threatening infection that takes more than 200,000 lives each year.
10:40 am
March 16, 2012
Researchers at Stanford University have designed an interactive case-based online activity to help clinicians prevent and treat sepsis, a life-threatening infection that takes more than 200,000 lives each year.