Featured Report: Researchers find $56K pay gap for female docs

Researchers find $56K pay gap for female docs

Modern Healthcare.com Sep,02,2013 by:+Rachel Landen Though the gender earnings gap has been narrowing across most professions, sharp salary inequities persist among physicians, according to a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Researchers analyzed data-occupation, hours worked, annual earnings, age, sex and race-from the March Current Population Survey to identify trends in male and female pay among physicians, other healthcare professionals and workers overall. Adjusting for differences in hours worked and years of experience so as not to overstate the earnings gap, they sampled more than 1.3 million people, including 6,258 physicians and 31,857 other healthcare workers, across three time periods (1987-1990, 1996-2000, 2006-2010). Read More

Mobile health oversight: Stability will come with clarity, not rush

MobiHealthNews Sep,04,2013 by:+Dan Haley In 2011 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released draft guidance seeking to clarify its intentions with regard to regulation of mobile health information technology ("mhealth IT"). The Agency solicited and received public comment. Thereafter began a nearly two-year waiting game that continues to this day and has more than a few mobile health stakeholders clamoring for final guidance to provide "clarity" and, by extension, confidence to potential mobile health investors waiting impatiently on the sidelines. Read More

How do we move from cost-increasing to cost-reducing technology?

FierceHealthIT Sept,03,2013 by:Susan D. Hall In computing, Moore's Law says costs fall by half every two years as capability improves, yet in healthcare, technology sends bills soaring. In 25 years, healthcare could account for a third of the economy and consume 30 percent of the federal budget, according to a series of stories introduced in Technology Review. Read More

EHR Incentive Program Healthcare Professionals Did You Know? Non-hospital-based physicians and other eligible professionals can obtain incentive payments of as much as $44,000 under Medicare or $63,750 under Medicaid. Under both Medicare and Medicaid, eligible hospitals may receive millions of dollars for implementing and meaningfully using certified EHR technology. About two-thirds (65 percent) of hospitals and 32 percent of office-based physicians plan to enroll in meaningful use programs by the end of 2012 in order to receive the maximum incentives, according to survey results announced Thursday morning. Fewer federal dollars will be available to hospitals and doctors that wait to adopt EHR technology, and failure to meaningfully use EHRs starting in 2015 will result in Medicare penalties. Watch this video about how to register for the EHR Incentive program. EHR Incentive Program Registration Do you need help with HIPAA and HITECH? Then download and Read our HIPAA Guide for for Doctors and Small Clinics that contains HIPAA security regulations and check lists that you can use to start your EMR network.

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