Staff News Writer

Patient-centered care means incorporating patients’ perspectives, experiences and opinions into how you run your practice. Meaningful patient engagement can help achieve better quality, better outcomes and lower care costs.

The country’s graduate medical education (GME) system’s problems received national attention last year after the long-awaited report from the Institute of Medicine called for transitioning the current system to a transparent, performance-based system.

A recent JAMA study investigated the reasons behind hospital readmission following surgery.

A recent article in The New York Times discusses doctor-patient communication and how one hospital designed a strategy to improve it.

Accountable care organizations (ACO) are promising for the future of health delivery system reform, and more supportive and flexible policies for ACOs would encourage more physician participation, the AMA and other health care organizations told the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

There are liability issues physicians should consider when engaging in the practice of medicine using telemedicine technologies. An expert in legal medicine gives his take on the potential liability climate resulting from use of telemedicine and outlined key steps physicians can take to minimize potential risk.

Osteopathic medical students met their match—75 percent of graduating DO students who participated in the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) Intern/Resident Registration Program successfully matched to osteopathic residencies.