Tag: doctors
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Study finds doctors often overestimate how well they communicate in English as a second langauge
A study appearing in Health Services Research shows physicians who speak English as a second language, an increasing phenomenon in the U.S. and parts of Kentucky, often overrate how well...
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Federal agency is pressured to re-post online database of doctors’ malpractice and disciplinary cases
U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley has joined journalists, academic researchers and consumer groups in calling on the Health Resources and Services Administration to put back online the National Practitioner Data Bank,...
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State senator says U of L doctors used Medicaid funds to pay themselves $4.8 million in bonuses, seeks more oversight
State Sen. Tim Shaughnessy has questioned a $30 million transfer of surplus Medicaid funds to Passport Health Plan board members in 2008 and 2009. Shaughnessy, a Louisville Democrat, says doctors...
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Ky., Ohio, Tenn. and W.Va. join forces to fight prescription-drug abuse amid questions about use of Ky. system
Kentucky has formed a partnership with Ohio, Tennessee and West Virginia to help fight prescription drug abuse, “even as questions linger over how well the state has used its own electronic monitoring...
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Rural hospitals to get federal help for recruiting physicians
Critical-access hospitals will get help recruiting physicians to their rural areas through an expanded loan repayment program that is part of President Obama’s new jobs initiative for rural America. The...
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Switch to electronic medical records not without concerns
Though touted as a way to improve patient care and supported by federal funding, Kentucky physicians have concerns about switching to electronic medical records. Doctors are worried about cost, lost...
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Three Ky. physicians and one nurse practitioner investigated for high numbers of prescriptions for antipsychotic drugs
State and federal officials are investigating three Kentucky doctors and one nurse practitioner because of the unusually high amounts of antipsychotic drug prescriptions they write for Medicaid patients. In 2008...
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New program aims to get more physicians practicing in rural Ky.
A new program in Morehead aims to get more physicians practicing in rural areas and improve access to health care. The Rural Physician Leadership Program is the result of a...
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Kentucky doctors’ offices are the least digitized in the country; increase expected nationwide
Kentucky has the lowest percentage of doctors’ offices who have adopted electronic health record systems, says a survey released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology....