VUMC division chief heading west
Posted on November 19, 2009 at 8:16 am
D. Brent Polk, chief of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center division of pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition named after him, will next spring decamp to SoCal to chair the department of pediatrics at USC.
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notifyMD adds sales exec
Posted on November 12, 2009 at 8:32 amRay DeArmitt has joined Nashville-based doctor answering service notifyMD as executive vice president of sales. DeArmitt has more than two decades of industry experience and has spent time at big names like Allscripts and Emdeon. Don Mundie with The Buffkin Group handled DeArmitt’s placement.
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CHS recruits Alabama sports medicine group
Posted on November 3, 2009 at 10:30 amTrinity Medical Center, a 534-bed Birmingham hospital run by Community Health Systems, has recruited a 22-person sports medicine and orthopedics practice. The doctor running the group – who also is medical director of the new United Football League and Major League Soccer – already is looking to expand across Alabama.
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Sy.Med gets Windows 7 friendly
Posted on November 2, 2009 at 11:11 amSy.Med Development has released a new version of its physician credentialing software, Sy.Med OneApp, that’s compatible with Microsoft’s newly-released Windows 7. The company works with more than 750 clients and 165,000 health care providers in 49 states.
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AmeriChoice and Meharry partner for telehealth
Posted on October 27, 2009 at 7:51 amMembers of AmeriChoice by UnitedHealthcare of Tennessee who live in rural or underserved areas will have access to the physicians of Meharry Medical Group via a telehealth network announced Monday. The agreement with Meharry Medical College is an expansion of AmeriChoice’s telehealth program with Community Health Network.
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A more rigorous look at the looming physician shortage
Posted on October 26, 2009 at 8:26 am
A group of researchers that includes Vanderbilt professor Peter Buerhaus has compared projections of the number of physicians in the work force and concluded that widely used forecasts may be overly optimistic, especially when it comes to older doctors.
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A few more docs
Posted on October 21, 2009 at 7:18 amThere were slightly more medical school applicants and available first-year slots in 2009 than the year before, but the ratio of applicants to seats was flat at roughly 2:1, says the Association of American Medical Colleges. However, there were about 350 more first-year students in ‘09 thanks to some new schools and expanded programs.
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BlueCross needs to give docs ID protection
Posted on October 15, 2009 at 8:16 amA BlueCross BlueShield Association employee “broke protocol” and transferred personal information belonging to 800,000 doctors to a laptop. The computer was left in a car that was later stolen.
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George Allen steps down as Vandy neurosurgery leader
Posted on October 12, 2009 at 7:55 amFrom Carol Bartoo:
Allen is stepping down after more than 25 years as chair, effective Jan. 1, 2010, and Reid Thompson, M.D., professor of Neurosurgery, has been named to succeed him.
“George Allen hired Reid Thompson with the idea of this leadership succession plan,” said R. Daniel Beauchamp, M.D., chair of the Section of Surgical Sciences. “Once Reid got here and started working, it was clear he would be such a leader and could take on the role, so that it would be a very smooth transition.”
Thompson was trained at Johns Hopkins and completed a research fellowship in neuro-oncology there, before heading to Stanford University where he completed a fellowship in cerebrovascular surgery. From 1997 to 2002, he was at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he directed neurosurgical trauma and co-directed vascular neurosurgery.
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Baptist starts surgicalist program
Posted on October 7, 2009 at 11:26 am
Baptist Hospital today announced the launch of a surgicalist program, its fourth inpatient care management program. Surgical hospitalists are general surgeons based in the hospital, helping to speed the care of emergency department patients. Baptist also has hospitalist, obstetric hospitalist, and intensivist programs. According to the Society of Hospital Medicine, the hospitalist field is the fastest-growing medical specialty in the country.
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Hospitalist certification plan on the way
Posted on October 2, 2009 at 7:44 am
The American Board of Medical Specialties is drawing up plans for a broad program that would help physicians become certified hospitalists, or doctors who work exclusively in a hospital setting. Brentwood-based Cogent Healthcare, one of the hospitalist market leaders, is on board.
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Centennial docs launching Franklin practice
Posted on September 21, 2009 at 8:03 am
Dr. Gabriela Morel and Gordon Davis will later this fall open the doors to Southern Pediatrics in Cool Springs. The two MDs now ply their trade at Centennial Pediatrics’ Brentwood and Smyrna offices.
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Health care price transparency won’t hurt a bit
Posted on September 17, 2009 at 6:42 am
With the help of a few others in the industry, Robert Hendrick at change:healthcare shoots down the argument that price transparency will damage the financial prospects of physicians and hospitals.
But will knowing the price put healthcare providers out of business? Not likely. In fact, knowing the price seems to be working wonders for Wal-Mart and…oh…just about every other business model in the U.S.
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Happy MDs abound
Posted on September 4, 2009 at 6:45 am
Four out of five doctors tell the Center for Studying Health System Change they’re satisfied with their careers. Other tidbits from the survey: 44 percent of MDs last year received some form of performance-adjusted salary and four out of 10 didn’t provide any charity care.
The most surprising number? A whopping 62 percent of docs responded to the survey.
HT: The Journal’s Health Blog
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HCA a doc magnet in West Florida
Posted on August 7, 2009 at 6:53 amThe Nashville-based hospital giant has recruited more than 100 physicians to its West Florida division in the last year.
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