Medical practice is under siege by a barrage of unrelenting rules, regulations and requirements that have little bearing on achieving the best outcome for the patient. A research center collaboration launched by The Physicians Foundation and Weill Cornell Medical Center...

Despite looming physician shortage, Dr. Lawrence Braud, board member of The Physicians Foundation, tells U.S. News & World Report there’s hope that this crisis can be solved.

Lawrence Casalino, MD, Ph.D., director of the Physicians Foundation Center for the Study of Physician Practice and Leadership at Weill Cornell Medicine (CPPL) shares the new Center’s goals and research focus in a Q&A with Medical Economics.

Prior authorizations, among other sources, are a top third-party interference for physicians, according to the Medical Economics Annual Physician Report. Ripley Hollister, MD, board member of the Physicians Foundation, explains how third-party interferences contribute to physician burnout.

How bad is the problem of physician burnout? Nearly half of physicians say that they often or always feel burned out, according the Physicians Foundation 2016 Survey of America’s Physicians: Practice Patterns and Perspectives. Read more via Becker’s Hospital Review.

Walker Ray, MD, and Tim Norbeck, president and CEO of the Physicians Foundation, discuss via Forbes new studies that indict the U.S. healthcare system directly and, by inference, America’s physicians.