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AMA: Physicians Can Opt-out from 2020 MIPS Program

Aug 11, 2020 at 10:55 am by admin

CMS announced that physicians will have the option to opt-out completely or partially from the 2020 MIPS program by completing a hardship exemption application and indicating.... Read More

Cato Johnson Appointed to Tennessee Historical Commission

Aug 11, 2020 at 10:54 am by admin

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare's Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff, Cato Johnson, will serve a five-year term with the Tennessee Historical Commission. Appointed by Go.... Read More

Open Letter from Dr. Wendy Long

Jun 12, 2020 at 01:11 pm by admin

Dear Tennessee Nurses: On behalf of the Tennessee Hospital Association (THA), I appreciate the opportunity to recognize you during National Nurse's Month and thank you for you.... Read More

UTHSC Researcher Awarded $2.1 Million for Hirschprung Disease-Related Research

Jun 12, 2020 at 01:07 pm by admin

Hirschsprung-associated enterocolitis (HAEC) is a life-threatening complication of Hirschsprung Disease, a common cause of intestinal obstruction in newborns. Hirschsprung Dis.... Read More

Penny Asbell, MD, Leads National Ocular Antibiotic Resistance Study, Publishes in JAMA

Jun 12, 2020 at 01:06 pm by admin

The results of a 10-year ongoing study led by Penny A. Asbell, MD, FACS, MBA, FARVO, chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and director of the Hamilton Eye Institute (HEI),.... Read More

New Leadership Team at Baptist Memphis

Jun 12, 2020 at 01:04 pm by admin

Dana Dye, the first registered nurse to serve as CEO of Baptist's flagship and the largest hospital in Memphis retired May 29. Dye left Renown Health -- the largest health car.... Read More

Is Alois Alzheimer Still Waiting?

Jun 12, 2020 at 08:59 am by admin

A fifty-one-year-old female presented to her physician's office with complaints of short-term memory loss and altered behavioral symptoms. After gradual but progressive decli.... Read More

Self-Care on the Front Lines of Coronavirus

Jun 12, 2020 at 08:57 am by admin

With coronavirus dominating news cycles for weeks now, it seems difficult ... if not impossible ... to escape the mounting death toll, case load, unemployment figures and econ.... Read More

From Medicine in a War-Torn Desert to Frontlines of New Technology

Jun 12, 2020 at 08:56 am by admin

OrthSouth's Judith Lee-Sigler, MD, using the latest in treatments Dr. Judith Lee-Sigler, a physiatrist with Tabor Orthopedics, now OrthoSouth, went from medical school at Temp.... Read More

New Study Looks at Cost Impact of OTC Birth Control

Jun 12, 2020 at 08:53 am by admin

On May 9, 'the pill' celebrates 60 years of approval from the Food and Drug Administration. While no over-the-counter option is currently available, a growing chorus of women'.... Read More

Nurses' Roundtable

Jun 12, 2020 at 08:32 am by admin

COVID-19 and should nurses be allowed to practice without physician oversight? Florence Nightingale may be the world's best-known nurse and since 2020 is the 200th anniversary.... Read More

Is Alois Alzheimer Still Waiting?

Jun 02, 2020 at 04:27 pm by admin

A fifty-one-year-old female presented to her physician's office with complaints of short-term memory loss and altered behavioral symptoms. After gradual but progressive declin.... Read More

Protecting Our Medical Supplies from Foreign Dependence

Jun 02, 2020 at 04:24 pm by admin

There is one thing the Coronavirus Pandemic has brought to everyone's attention. The United States is far too dependent upon China and other Asian countries for our drugs and.... Read More

Making Sense of a Quickly Changing Healthcare Scene

Jun 02, 2020 at 04:19 pm by admin

If you have sensed an acceleration of change in the healthcare landscape, you would be correct. The evidence has been many recent events in Memphis and over the last two weeks.... Read More

CMS Issues New Wave of Infection Control Guidance to Protect Patients, Healthcare Workers

Apr 16, 2020 at 11:55 am by admin

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a series of updated guidance documents focused on infection control to prevent the spread of the 2019 Novel C.... Read More