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Rheumatology Research Foundation Helps Train Tomorrow’s Top Doctors

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A passion to improve the clinical reasoning skills of future doctors led Maria Dall’Era, MD, associate professor of medicine and director of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Lupus Clinic, to create a revolutionary application for smartphones and tablets that could modernize medical education. With funding from the Rheumatology Research Foundation’s Clinician Scholar Educator…

Plan Now to Attend the 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

Plan Now to Attend the 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

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Where can you network with more than 16,000 professionals in the field of rheumatology? Where you can hear about promising research and best practices from industry leaders? How can you find out about new treatments and technologies on the horizon? You guessed it—at the 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting, to be held Nov. 11–16. As if…

Mesoblast Cell Treatment Shows Promise in Rheumatoid Arthritis

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(Reuters)—Mesoblast Ltd. on Monday said its experimental stem-cell treatment led to significant improvements of symptoms and disease activity in patients whose rheumatoid arthritis had stopped being helped by widely used biotech medicines, according to data from a mid-stage trial. Treatment with the Australian company’s mesenchymal precursor cell (MPC) product, MPC-300-IV, was deemed well tolerated with…

E-Health, Telemedicine Pose Challenges, Offer Benefits for Patients with Arthritis

Lisa Rapaport  |  

(Reuters Health)—As more and more sick patients are going online and using social media to search for answers about their health, it’s raising a lot of thorny ethical questions for doctors. “The internet and ready access to vast amounts of information are now permanent aspects of how we live our lives, including how we think…

Banner Health Says Hackers May Have Gained Access to Patient Data

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(Reuters)—Banner Health, a non-profit organization that runs a chain of hospitals, says hackers may have gained unauthorized access to patient, physician and beneficiary data. Phoenix-based Banner said it was notifying 3.7 million patients, health plan members, food and beverage customers, physicians and healthcare providers about the attack, which occurred between June 23 and July 7….

How to Leverage Patient Satisfaction

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Medicare and other insurers are using patient satisfaction to determine provider payment. But according to one expert, rheumatologists who look at their practice with a critical eye, listen and ask their patients the right questions may improve their patient relationships and their practice…

The ACR Continues Fight to Block Medicare Part B Demo Project: Rule Expected in Fall 2016

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The ACR will seek Congressional action if the Medicare Part B demonstration project proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is not significantly altered by the agency. Today, Medicare Part B generally pays physicians and hospital outpatient departments the average sales price of a drug, plus a 6% add-on, minus reductions required…

Proposed CMS Physician Fee Schedule May Offer Slight Increases

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All eyes are on the new physician fee schedule proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which will be finalized this year and go into effect Jan. 1. The ACR is reviewing the proposal and will be providing comments and recommendations to CMS. And many rheumatologists have payment and coding questions: Will…