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Supreme Court Ruling
I needed a reason to get blogging again. Well, it’s not that I haven’t been offering my opinion out here in cyberspace, but between Facebook, Twitter and writing for Physicians Practice Pearls column, I’ve been neglecting the official blog terribly. Time to change that and no better material than today’s Supreme Court ruling in favor […]
Creating a Life Plan
June 14, 2011
by The Verden Group
by Susanne Madden It’s been a while since any of us at Verden have taken the time to add a blog post. Things have been so very busy and the micro-blogging capabilities of Facebook and Twitter have distracted us from this space. But this topic deserves a little more room. I spend a lot of […]
Posted in: General, Of Interest
ACOs: Are Things Finally Moving in the Right Direction for Physicians?
April 2, 2011
by The Verden Group
by Susanne Madden I was recently a ‘Guest Expert’ for the Sermo community and engaged the physicians there on a discussion about Accountable Care Organizations (or ACOs): Physician Friend or Foe?. The general consensus was that with the advent of this PPACA-based model, hospitals would hold all the power going forward and physicians would lose […]
Using Evidence-Based Medicine Resources
January 26, 2011
by The Verden Group
By Tiffany Lauria Two recently released reports have brought to light an interesting point regarding evidence based medicine- that it may not be as widely used as thought, or should be. In a retrospective cohort study of cases submitted to the National Cardiovascular Data Registry-ICD Registry[1] between January 1, 2006, and June 30, 2009, researchers […]
Looking Forward
January 9, 2011
by The Verden Group
by Susanne Madden Many bloggers have used the New Year as an opportunity to reflect on 2010. It was a big year for health care, certainly, and there is much to write about in looking back. However, I believe that 2011 will be the year that we begin to see and feel the results of […]
HIPAA Patient Privacy Update
December 16, 2010
by The Verden Group
by Jason Lopata Patient privacy concerns continue to be in the headlines recently as more and more opportunities for possible breaches exist in our electronic, and ever more interconnected, world. Importantly for private practices and hospitals alike, a recent hospital survey (published by Press Ganey Associates, Inc., a patient-satisfaction measurement firm) suggested that patients are […]
Posted in: Compliance
From A-B-C to C-A-B
October 26, 2010
by The Verden Group
by Tiffany Lauria ‘Look, Listen and Feel’ is a thing of the past…. After years of drilling ‘Look, Listen and Feel’ into first responders heads as step one of the basic CPR process, the American Heart Association has released their 2010 guidelines which changes the sequence of CPR steps from Airway-Breathing-Chest Compressions (ABC) to Chest […]
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