MMS NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Artificial Intelligence: What it is and how to treat it — NEXT SATURDAY
Join
your colleagues to learn how artificial intelligence (AI) is changing
the medical landscape and where it (and you) will be in five years. Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Clinical Practice: Does Machine Learning Empower or Challenge Physicians? explores the growing and potentially transformative role of AI technologies in health. Presentations include AI: What it is and how to treat it; Machine learning in health care; The Watson story; and Beyond the 'AI, big data, machine learning' hype. The event will be held on May 12 at MMS Headquarters, Waltham; information and registration.
MassHealth ordering, referring, and prescribing requirements — UPDATE
MassHealth
is close to announcing the date that they will begin denying claims
that do not meet the ordering, referring, and prescribing requirements
described in All Provider Bulletin 274.
Check VSTW for updates; we will communicate that date to you as soon as
it is announced. The information in Bulletin 274 is intended to help
billing providers prepare their processes and systems for compliance,
and reduce the impact on them once claim denials take effect. Currently,
78 percent of physicians have registered as either a non-billing or a
billing provider; if you have not yet registered, please do so.
Reminders: Stuff you should click on
Share your expertise with medical students
The
Boston University School of Medicine Integrated Problems course depends
on volunteer physicians to facilitate the small group problem-based
learning sessions for second-year medical students. Your medical
experience and expertise will be invaluable in developing the students’
clinical reasoning skills. Join us for lunch on June 7 to learn more; information and registration. To call in for the presentation, email ckoh@mms.org.
Free financial wellness workshop for physicians — TUESDAY
Need to plan for your financial security in retirement? Join your peers at an in-person class geared to physicians. Physician Finance: Planning for a Bright Future covers retirement,
protecting assets, estate planning, charitable giving, and college
planning. It will be held on May 8, 6:30–8:00 p.m., in Brookline. The
classes are being promoted by the Physicians Insurance Agency of
Massachusetts, an MMS subsidiary, and Baystate MD. Get more information
and register at the link above. Questions? Email Tom Bryant or Meghan
Stanley at piam@mms.org.
The Patient as Watch-Bird: Boston Medical Library — TUESDAY
Health
care policy makers have embraced the idea of activated, engaged
patients as a means of comnbatting inefficiencies in the USD healtrh
care system. Join your colleagues and Nancy Tomes, PhD, SUNY history
professor and author of Remaking of the American Patient, to learn about the history of this concept, and what prevents it from being a magic bullet. The Patient as Watch Bird; Historical Perspectives on Patients' Roles in Health Care Quality Initiatives
is the 14th Annual J. Worth Estes, MD, History of Medicine Lecture at
210 Longwood Avenue, Boston. The event will be held May 8, 6:00 pm; information and registration.
Share your professional news in Vital Signs
Have
you recently received a promotion, award, or another opportunity or
honor? Have you switched jobs lately, opened a new practice, been
elected to a board, or retired? Share your professional news with
colleagues via the Member News and Notes column in Vital Signs. Email vitalsigns@mms.org; include the relevant information and a headshot.
Educational programs and events
View our full calendar of upcoming live CME activities. Unless otherwise noted, all events are held at MMS Headquarters, 860 Winter St., Waltham, MA.
Live CME events
Medical Dental Integration
Tuesday, May 1, 2018, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Artifical Intelligence and the Future of Clinical Practice
Saturday, May 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Directors of Medical Education Conference — Leading and Designing for Change
Thursday, May 17, 2018, 9:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Featured online CME courses
Find additional risk management online CME activities.
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Nearly 700 health care workers in state prisons laid off, forced to reapply
Massachusetts
Partnership for Correctional Healthcare, the Massachusetts company of
MHM Health Professionals, Inc., will lay off 680 employees as a result of losing the state contract to Correct Care Solutions, which takes over as of July 1.
State releases 'Aging in Massachusetts' initial report
Its vision is for residents to "proactively plan for a 100-year life"
in a state where aging is a valued asset and there is equal "access to
health and social supports and disparities are reduced."
Massachusetts Medical Society appoints new president
Alain Chaoui,
a primary care physician on the North Shore, has been named the
president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, which counts 25,000
physicians statewide as members.
Doctor accused of sexual harassment still on the job
The female staffer who says she was assaulted went to court to ask for a Harassment Protection Order.
During the hearing she told a judge that on September 15, 2017, Dr.
Raymond Malapero III grabbed her buttocks near the operating room desk.
A practical plan for fighting overdoses — but not in Mass.
Supervised injection facilities
aren't yet legal, so the one set up in Longwood by a coalition of area
medical students and activists was just a mock-up. Organizers passed out
fliers extolling the benefits, which are pretty straightforward —
keeping people alive, for example, and preventing infections.
Evidence of dozens of deaths 'irrelevant' for meningitis jury
The nine defendants are the lesser-known actors charged in the tragedy involving the New England Compounding Center
during the summer of 2012, when prosecutors say contaminated, expired,
and untested drugs were mislabeled and shipped to doctors, clinics, and
hospitals across the country.
Jury delivers split verdict in case of former Longmeadow gynecologist
The jury found Dr. Rita Luthra guilty of violating HIPAA laws
that protect patient privacy and obstruction of a federal health care
investigation. She was found not guilty of witness tampering.
Black nurses sue Brigham and Women's Hospital
The Haitian-American nurse said she was turned down for that job
because she is black. When another Haitian-American nurse stuck up for
Berthold, that woman said the hospital retaliated against her.
Worcester doctor honored by Mass. Medical Society
Dr. Lynda Young,
past president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, established
Chandler Pediatrics and was chair of the Division of Community
Pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center.
She is a former member of the Worcester Board of Health.
Gates calls for global pandemic preparedness during Boston visit
The
announcement, made at the Massachusetts Medical Society 2018 Annual
Meeting, was made as part of a broader conversation about the threat of global epidemics and the innovation necessary to stop them. Gates was the presenter of this year's Shattuck Lecture.
