• Grade: Needs Improvement

    Report card highlights deficits in children’s physical activity

    Remember when P.E. was the ‘easy A’ in school? Evidently that’s no longer true.

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PEDIATRICS FOCUS

  • Grade: Needs Improvement

    Report card highlights deficits in children’s physical activity

    Remember when P.E. was the ‘easy A’ in school? Evidently that’s no longer true.

    By CINDY SANDERS


HEALTHCARE EXCHANGES FOCUS

  • Tech Box: The Use of Technology in Transforming Healthcare

    The medical record is as much a part of a patient’s identity as their bank account. It is trusted to the medical system much like one trusts one’s bank account to the banking system. While protected in the hands of the providers under law, many others can obtain it with patient permission and for business purposes. But what is new is how valuable it is under the Accountable Care Act for many reasons, some having little to do with improving patient care and more to do with doing business.

    By Scott R. Fowler, JD, MD
  • Exchange Rate

    An early analysis of the federal health exchange

    After a very rough start, the federal health exchange managed a healthy rebound before the March 31 general signup deadline. Similarly, state exchanges have hit some glitches but are also now up and running.

    By CINDY SANDERS

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PEDIATRICS FOCUS

  • Grade: Needs Improvement

    Report card highlights deficits in children’s physical activity

    Remember when P.E. was the ‘easy A’ in school? Evidently that’s no longer true.

    By CINDY SANDERS


HEALTHCARE EXCHANGES FOCUS

  • Tech Box: The Use of Technology in Transforming Healthcare

    The medical record is as much a part of a patient’s identity as their bank account. It is trusted to the medical system much like one trusts one’s bank account to the banking system. While protected in the hands of the providers under law, many others can obtain it with patient permission and for business purposes. But what is new is how valuable it is under the Accountable Care Act for many reasons, some having little to do with improving patient care and more to do with doing business.

    By Scott R. Fowler, JD, MD
  • Exchange Rate

    An early analysis of the federal health exchange

    After a very rough start, the federal health exchange managed a healthy rebound before the March 31 general signup deadline. Similarly, state exchanges have hit some glitches but are also now up and running.

    By CINDY SANDERS

Guest Writers

  • The Literary Examiner

    Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival

    by Sean Strub; c.2014, Scribner; $30.00 / $34.99 Canada, 420 pages
     

    In the early 1980s, when AIDS was barely understood, Sean Strub decided something: he’s gay and had engaged in risky behavior, but he didn’t want to be tested. In his book Body Counts, he writes about HIV, House and Senate, and how they set the course of his life.

    By TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER
  • Enjoying East Tennessee

    Clinch River Adventures

    During a time when most of us are looking for a true way to UNPLUG, getting back to simpler things is becoming more popular than ever.

    By LEIGH ANNE W. HOOVER
  • Breathing Easier

    Mountain States’ Black Lung Program provides relief for victims of the disease

    Coalworker's pneumoconiosis, commonly known as black lung, is a devastating disease caused by prolonged exposure to coal dust.

    By JENNIFER CULP
  • Legal Matters: Profit and Loss: The Top Ten Things Providers Need to Know

    Part III: Statistical Sampling and Extrapolation = Million Dollar Debts

    This article is the third installment in a series which explores the top ten health law issues and their potential financial consequences on a provider’s practice.

    By Diana L. Gustin, London & Amburn, P.C.


FEATURED PROFILES

  • Tri Cities Physician Spotlight: Melissa Keene, MD

    As part of the continued efforts of Niswonger Children’s Hospital to improve the pediatric patient care they offer to the Tri Cities and surrounding regions, Melissa Keene, MD, heads up the pediatric hospitalist program established this past year.

    By BRIDGET GARLAND
  • Tri Cities Healthcare Leader: Laurie Kaudewitz, RNC-OB, MSN

    Laurie Kaudewitz is a self-described Yopper—i.e. she grew up in the upper peninsula of Michigan and is proud of it!

    By BRIDGET GARLAND
  • Knox/Chatt Healthcare Leader: Trish Reed

    Running a healthcare practice is difficult enough these days. Running one that treats children brings a whole new set of challenges, but the doctors and staff at GI for Kids, PLLC, are more than ready to tackle them, says Trish Reed, nurse manager.

    By JOE MORRIS
  • Knox/Chatt Physician Spotlight: Dr. David Devoid

    When Dr. David Devoid joins GI for Kids this summer, a lot more is going to change than where he practices medicine.

    By JOE MORRIS

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