Year: 2019
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Reducing Physician Burnout Focus of New Study at UAB
BIRMINGHAM – A program to study and reduce physician burnout amongst residents will be introduced at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, along with three other hospitals around the nation. The five-year, $1.8 million grant is funded by the American Medical Association. UAB’s Tinsley Harrison Internal Medicine Residency Program shares the grant with Johns Hopkins…
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The Delivery and Confidentiality Challenges in Rural Health Care Explained
Medical practices in rural settings face a host of concerns, such as how emergency protocols may differ from urban areas, difficulty in finding nurses (according to a recent Friday Letter from the Alabama Hospital Association, registered nurses are the third most in-demand jobs), and difficulty in finding appropriate training for staff. In small towns/rural settings,…
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Get To Know Charlotte Meadows
1. While you have been active around Montgomery for quite some time, can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Primary occupation? Interests? Hobbies? I grew up in Montgomery and graduated from Jeff Davis HS before going to Auburn for college. I married Allen in 1986 who, at the time, was a pediatrician in…
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Alabama Medicaid Updates: Don’t Miss This Information!
Promoting Interoperability with Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) The Alabama Department of Public Health Meaningful Use team recently added new functionality where Eligible Providers who are currently participating in the PI Program can access the PDMP registry and run reports to show that they are actively engaged with this Specialized Registry during the reporting period.…
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Medical Association Endorses Refinements to Improve MACRA
Since the enactment of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, many organizations have worked with Congress and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to promote a smooth implementation of the two payment models. Although MACRA is an improvement over the flawed sustainable growth rate payment model, its implementation has been flawed. The Medical…
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How to Have it All with Kre Johnson, D.O.
TRUSSVILLE – Dr. Kre Johnson knows what it’s like to be stretched so thin at work and at home to the point at which more than a few things begin to fall through the cracks. It’s something most of us can relate to. Not having enough time to devote to family, friends and clearing the…
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Report: Overall Cancer Mortality Continues to Decline
The latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer finds that, for all cancer sites combined, cancer death rates continued to decline in men, women and children in the United States from 1999 to 2016. Overall cancer incidence rates, or rates of new cancers, decreased in men from 2008 to 2015, after…
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Curry Named Local Governor of National Doctors’ Group
BIRMINGHAM — William A. Curry, M.D., has been named governor of the Alabama Chapter of the American College of Physicians, the national organization of internists. Dr. Curry is a professor of medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and associate dean for Primary Care and Rural Health at the UAB School of Medicine. The Board of…
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New Study Inspires Researchers to Hit the Road
A new $21.4 million RURAL study will examine rural, southern U.S. communities to find out why people there have more disease, shorter lives. Traveling in a mobile examination van, researchers will examine 4,000 study participants over the course of six years in 10 rural counties across Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Vasan Ramachandran, who leads the Framingham…
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