Birmingham Medical News

Re-opening Practices during the COVID Pandemic

Aug 17, 2020 at 10:49 am by steve

"We do everything a little different now," Jennifer Perry, Norwood Clinic administrator, says. When Alabama shut down in March to slow the spread of COVID-19, the multi-specia.... Read More

Updating IT Policies for Work-from-Home Users

Jul 23, 2020 at 12:08 pm by steve

About half of American workers have been forced to work from home by Covid-19, and it appears the shift may become the new norm. In April, nearly one in five CFOs surveyed by.... Read More

Beware the Pitfalls of Collaborative Tools

Jul 23, 2020 at 09:15 am by steve

At the beginning of 2020, the video-conferencing platform Zoom was seeing 200 million daily meeting participants on average. That was before Covid-19 struck. Now, with remote.... Read More

UAB Undiagnosed Diseases Program Finds New Genetic Variant

Jan 17, 2020 at 03:56 pm by steve

For most of her life, a young woman had been a medical mystery. At age five, her lower limbs began to show impairment. The cause eluded physicians. As an adult in her 20's, sh.... Read More

Co-management Agreements

Jan 17, 2020 at 03:49 pm by steve

The absorption of physician practices by hospitals and health systems has soared the past decade. According to the Physicians Advocacy Institute, hospital acquisition of pract.... Read More