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President Donald Trump should name hedge fund manager Steve Cohen as Secretary for Veterans Affairs instead of Trump's personal physician Ronny Jackson.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
The move advances two growing trends: Minnesota’s “big health” players investing in startups and nontraditional providers offering the perhaps the most traditional of healthcare services that has been abandoned by mainstream providers: the house call.
Patients with previously treated advanced renal cell carcinoma have a new treatment option with cabozantinib — a kinase inhibitor shown to improve overall survival compared to everolimus, as a Cleveland Clinic researcher noted at ASCO 2016 over the weekend.
Derrickson defended a recent, controversial study about teledermatology and its methodology, noting that “our clients regularly secret-shop us,” and he predicted more of the same was coming.
League of Women Voters: Congress should not miss this historic opportunity to enact comprehensive health care reform legislation.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Patients' familiarity with brand-name drugs suggests that direct to consumer advertising works. What patients don't realize is that generic drugs may work just as well, and at a lower cost.
National Nurses United says Ohio Hospital Compare is missing important information about patient safety. The union wants people to know how many patients nurses are caring for at one time.
Conflicting reports show that higher hospital costs may or may not result in better outcomes for patients. Sometimes, cost depends on the kinds of patients a hospital services. Sometimes it all depends on how data is construed and interpreted.
Dr. Romona Bates reviews a new iPhone app for surgeons called i-Surgery Notebook.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
The Happy Hospitalist suggests a small alteration in hourly rounding by nurses could help improve nursing and physician satisfaction by "99.99999999999 percent."
Health-care investor Albert Waxman says the need to substantially trim the crippling U.S. health care inflation rate is getting lost in the shuffle and offers six steps to cut costs. He writes: "We can still cover the uninsured if we refocus reform on creating true value for health care spending and align patient, provider and payer incentives around good medicine."
Happy Hospitalist thinks that stickers encourage kids to go to the emergency room. "Perhaps instead of a hospital sticker, children in the emergency room would all get a saline injection in their shoulder," he writes.
The number of lecture hours in medical school are shrinking, points out third-year student George L. Anesi. The good professor will adjust by teaching the framework -- not just listing the causes -- of a disease. "One of the more challenging feats is for physicians and researchers who have understood anemia or cancer or heart failure for decades to figure out what was it that made them understand in the first place," he writes.
The Happy Hospitalist was determined not to be bullied into ordering an unreasonable therapy for something that wasn't medically indicated. As a result, the patient asked for his name - and he doesn't think it's going to be for a Christmas card.