July 27, 2011Wednesday EHRsHouse of Delegates Meaningful use House: Formularies must be compatible with electronic health records Insurers and pharmacies should be required to make this information readily available electronically.
July 26, 2011Tuesday CMEHouse of Delegates Virtual learning AOA House calls for more study of nonlive, online CME Concerns include the quality of recorded courses and attendance erosion at CME meetings.
July 12, 2011Tuesday House of Delegatesleadership Teamwork AOA leaders open Board meeting citing profession’s strength, influence The osteopathic medical profession’s voice in Washington, D.C., is stronger than ever, says AOA President-elect Martin S. Levine, DO, MPH.
July 1, 2011Friday medical missions Hands-on care Mission accomplishments: OMT, respect for traditions earn DOs goodwill abroad In the 10 years that Dixie Tooke-Rawlins, DO, has been going on medical missions, she has seen suspicions give way to trust.
June 22, 2011Wednesday EHRs ‘Waiting for the perfect EHR’ EHR holdouts: Concerns still keeping some DOs away, but with good reason? Anxieties about cost, reliability, patient privacy weigh on some DOs. But one expert says many worries have been addressed in recent years.
June 2, 2011Thursday disaster medicinevolunteer Helping hand VCOM-VC volunteers deliver supplies to tornado-struck clinic in Alabama Three days after a tornado struck Birmingham, six students and two deans loaded a truck with medical equipment and drove south.
May 31, 2011Tuesday students Next generation Enticed then turned off by medicine, Student DO of the Year comes full circle New DO once had seen too many physicians “whose behavior didn’t match my philosophy of how to treat people.”
May 27, 2011Friday accountable care organizations Unattractive option? Physicians rebuff Medicare’s new accountable care organizations DOs cite program’s financial risks, administrative burdens: “Physicians are not going to go for this.”
May 17, 2011Tuesday EHRs Lessons learned Slow Internet connection dead-ends Web-based EHR for rural DO After months of searching for an EHR, Oklahoma practice pulls plug after two months.
May 5, 2011Thursday DO Day on Capitol HillMedicare ‘Don’t be shy’ White coats in Congress: Hundreds of DOs, students meet with U.S. lawmakers More than 600 DOs, osteopathic medical students and others took part in the AOA’s annual DO Day on Capitol Hill.