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Uncategorized Published - 30 October, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Anesthesia Management: 3 ways leaders fail to be trustworthy

How are you affecting the culture of consistency within your organization? Much has been written about trust and leadership. Leaders can’t expect to have followers if they themselves are not trustworthy. Leaders know this. And they know that they want trustworthy employees. Who wouldn’t want trustworthy employees? And yet, leaders typically fail to be trustworthy […]

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Uncategorized Published - 30 October, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Anesthesia Management: Weather May Not Affect Low Back Pain

Weather factors such as temperature, relative humidity, air pressure, and precipitation did not increase the risk for a low back pain episode, and higher wind and wind gust speed had a minimal effect, according to an Australian case-crossover study published in Arthritis Care & Research. “Many patients believe that weather impacts their pain symptoms,” lead […]

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Uncategorized Published - 30 October, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Anesthesia Management:  ICD-10 struggles continue to plague providers

Provider progress in transitioning to ICD-10 has been hampered by the most recent delay–enforced via the passage of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act last spring–according to survey results released this week by the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI). For the survey, conducted in August, WEDI received more than 500 responses, including 324 from […]

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Uncategorized Published - 30 October, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Anesthesia Management:  Do bundled payments stifle innovation, discriminate against high-risk patients?

Although bundled payments are an increasingly common way for insurers to pay for care–and can improve quality and lower costs–some industry experts worry that they could have more negative consequences than benefits. One concern is that since bundled payments focus so singularly on costs, they could discourage experimentation of new drugs, devices and procedures, according […]

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Uncategorized Published - 30 October, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Anesthesia Management: Interstate Medical Licensure Effort Advances

At least 15 states are considering a revised draft of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, which has the support of the AMA. An effort to provide physicians a streamlined path to obtaining medical licensure in multiple states appears to be gaining traction. “There’s momentum,” Humayun Chaudhry, DO, president and CEO of the Federation of State […]

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