Meet the press: media-savvy physicians help educate the public while enhancing their own images

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Many physicians enjoy contacts with the press, and they believe that their practice benefits from exposure to the media. Hospital public relations departments may assist doctors who want to conduct seminars or give interview on subjects that concern them. Also, reporters are usually receptive to calls from doctors. Physicians should accept the limitations on their knowledge and resist the temptation to answer questions on topics outside their expertise.

Methods, Physicians, Medical professions, Public relations

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Help coming on new office lab rules

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Physicians should not do anything to comply with new rules implementing the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments as of Mar 9, 1992. The rules, published Feb 28, 1992, will be open for comment until May 1992, and will probably be modified. Sometime in 1992, the government will send physicians category notification and registration and payment instructions. The regulations will be then be phased-in over a period of years.

Editorial, Laws, regulations and rules, Medical laboratories, Biomedical laboratories, Medical offices

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Patient insurance information not quite a swipe away - but it's coming

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Swipe cards could give doctors quick, easy access to clinical and financial information about their patients, but there are still hurdles to large-scale swipe card programs. Those hurdles include disparate state policies, a need for data standards, and insurers' capabilities. Eleven states' Medicaid programs already use the technology, however, and more swipe card programs are under development.

All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing, Magnetic Plastic ID Cards, Usage, Information services, Patients, Identification cards, Magnetic stripe cards

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