Embrace Retail Clinics?

From Forbes.com:
…expand primary care options for patients. Patients with sore throats and ear infections can be treated quickly, effectively and inexpensively by nurse practitioners in retail clinics, which have begun operating in increasing numbers around the country.
Some states and physicians’ groups have tried to block these clinics’ expansion out of mistaken fears that they break [...]

Physicians Who Use EHRs Pay Fewer Malpractice Claims

From the American Academy of Family Practice:
Physicians who say they can’t afford to purchase an electronic health record, or EHR, system may want to evaluate new research that suggests physician practices that use EHRs have fewer paid malpractice claims.
The study, Electronic Health Records and Malpractice Claims in Office Practice, was published in the Nov. 24 [...]