APRIL 2015


37 EDUCATION Seeing the light


TMA considers the educational and workforce benefits of resident moonlighting.


BY AMY LYNN SORREL 45 LAW


Medical board wages war over telephone treatment


In a case working its way through Texas courts, Teladoc argues that a face-to-face meeting is unnecessary for new patients.


BY KARA NUZBACK 57 PROFILE


End-of-life care: the long conversation


TexMed keynote speaker Ira Byock, MD, a palliative care specialist, calls the issues surrounding end-of-life care “a public health crisis.”


BY AMY LYNN SORREL


« 51 PRACTICE MANAGEMENT


HIEs and the gateway to better care


A proposed health service enterprise gateway would connect to local health infor- mation exchanges and give physicians a single place to exchange data with all state health agencies.


BY KARA NUZBACK


“We need to rewrite the future of health care because where it’s


heading right now isn’t looking very good for physicians or patients.” Page 17


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