As researchers and scientists wait out the pandemic, lessons for restarting their labs can be learned from previous disasters that put a halt to research. The devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has reached every part of the globe and every industry. Countries such as France, Italy, New Zealand, and the UK have implemented some...
Stanley Andrisse, PhD, MBA, has a remarkable story that has taken him from a prison cell to Johns Hopkins University. He knows firsthand the effects of burnout and how to overcome it. He shares his tips on avoiding burnout and how he achieves an ideal work/life balance, as well as his own amazing journey. Stanley Andrisse,... A novel way to reach even more patients, clinicians, and researchers is to take your endocrinology skill into the business world. Here we highlight an ENDO 2020 session that will show attendees how industry could be a viable route for researchers and physicians alike. Last year, at ENDO 2019 in New Orleans, three entrepreneurs at...
It helps to be able to “talk the talk” and make the business case as well as the clinical case for new expenses. Healthcare is one of the sectors where technical innovation is taking place at a break-neck pace. A practice that is slow to adapt will be slow to catch up to an everchanging...
In his session at ENDO 2019, Jeffrey Boord, MD, MPH, proposed the use of clinical pharmacists in primary care practices to help manage patients as well as overcome clinical inertia. Clinical inertia is one of the issues that can be a deterrence to optimal care for diabetes patients in a primary care setting, which, according...In Living Color: Extending Your Practice’s Reach Via Telehealth
The advent of smart phones has enabled patients to avoid lengthy travel and made languishing in waiting rooms a thing of the past as telehealth has become more and more common in endocrinology practices. Telehealth can help manage the kind of chronic conditions, such as hypothyroidism or diabetes, that are considered hallmarks of endocrinology. Such...
CMS Retracts Detrimental Changes to Evaluation and Management Services
Last night, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its proposed 2020 Physician Fee Schedule rule, which will change payment policies under the physician fee schedule and other Part B payment policies. We are pleased to announce that CMS decided not to finalize several changes introduced in its 2019 rule for 2021 payment...
Sharing & Caring: Endocrine Society Hosts Primary Care Collaboration Roundtable
The Endocrine Society last Wednesday hosted stakeholders representing each of the nation’s major primary care associations for a roundtable aimed at identifying the best ways to collaborate – sharing resources and supporting one another in order to improve patient care. Representatives from six medical associations – the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the American...
