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BlueCross Selects Woods as Memphis Market President

Mar 09, 2018 at 01:45 pm by admin

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has named Kevin Woods as Memphis market president. He will be responsible for building and supporting key relationships with west Tennessee b.... Read More

Deadlines Near for MIPS Performance Period Reporting

Mar 09, 2018 at 01:44 pm by admin

Deadlines are fast approaching for submitting data for the 2017 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) performance period. The key dates are: March 1 if you plan to subm.... Read More

Regional One Names Imad Abdullah Chief Legal Officer

Mar 09, 2018 at 01:34 pm by admin

Regional One Health has named Imad Abdullah chief legal officer. As the principal attorney and general counsel for the health system, he is responsible for managing all aspect.... Read More

Bluff City Medical Society's 2018 Officers Announced

Mar 09, 2018 at 01:32 pm by admin

Persico Wofford, MD, was introduced as the new president of the Bluff City Medical Society during a Executive Committee dinner last month. The new slate of officers for 2018 a.... Read More

Opioids Head Lawmakers' List Of Critical Healthcare Issues

Feb 08, 2018 at 09:54 am by admin

Associations, Providers Weigh in with Their Agendas Of all the healthcare issues on the table at Tennessee's legislative session currently taking place in Nashville, the stun.... Read More

Murrmann Embraces Rise Of Integrative Medicine

Feb 08, 2018 at 09:39 am by admin

A lifelong seeker of reasons and causes, Susan G. Murrmann, MD, FACOG, has found in integrative medicine not an answer but a way to find more answers to better serve her patie.... Read More

Lending a Hand, and a Heart, to Children

Feb 08, 2018 at 09:35 am by admin

Le Bonheur's Commitment to Transplantation Is Richly Rewarded Umar Boston, MD, a pediatric cardiovascular surgeon at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, has done approximately 100.... Read More

Transformed by Skilled Leadership, UTMG Moving in Right Direction

Feb 08, 2018 at 09:31 am by admin

The New UCH 'Financially Strong and Growing' Several years and what he described as "a lifetime ago," Drew Botschner arrived in Memphis to oversee what he thought would be a t.... Read More

Get with the Guidelines: Blood Pressure Edition

Feb 08, 2018 at 09:25 am by admin

ACC, AHA Redefine Hypertension This past November, the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association redefined the way clinicians and the public should think.... Read More

Balancing the Yuck and the Yum

Feb 08, 2018 at 09:20 am by admin

West Tennessee Offers Just What One Cardiovascular Surgeon Wants Ask Ted Wright, MD, what would cause him leave a major academic medical center and move to West Tennessee and.... Read More

UTHSC Selects First User of Innovation Lab

Feb 08, 2018 at 09:17 am by admin

Monica M. Jablonski, PhD, professor in the Department of Ophthalmology in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has been select.... Read More

Primary Care Specialists Joins Regional One Health

Feb 08, 2018 at 09:15 am by admin

Primary Care Specialists, a provider in the area of family medicine, has joined the Regional One Health family. Transitioning to Regional One Health means the physicians and n.... Read More

Study Reveals Tennessee's Physicians Impact on State's Economy

Feb 08, 2018 at 09:12 am by admin

Physicians add opportunity, growth and prosperity to the Tennessee economy by creating 175,831 jobs and generating $29.1 billion in economic activity, according to a new repor.... Read More

Patel Named Chair of UTHSC Department of Dermatology

Feb 08, 2018 at 09:12 am by admin

Tejesh Patel, MD, FAAD, has been named chair of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine's Kaplan-Amonette Department of Dermatology. Patel, who p.... Read More

New OBGYN Practice Plans February Opening

Feb 08, 2018 at 09:09 am by admin

Three Memphis physicians who were associated with McDonald Murrmann Women's Clinic plan to open an OBGYN practice in East Memphis this month. Drs. Kyle Martin, Helen Lee and A.... Read More