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| Oct 8, 2025 | Doctors with troubled pasts are performing cosmetic surgeries tied to crippling pain and injury | By Fred Schulte, KFF Health News
Not long after California surgeon Andrew S. Hsu landed a job with a cosmetic surgery chain in Georgia, several of his patients suffered disfiguring injuries, and even his new employer had doubts about his co... |
| Jul 25, 2025 | 39-year-old dermatologist spent $180,000 to get licensed nationwide—she made $870,000 last year | Very few doctors can say they practice nationwide, making Dr. Anna Chacon a standout.
There are just over a million licensed physicians in the U.S. as of 2023, and less than 8% of those doctors have licenses to practice in three or more sta... |
| Jun 16, 2025 | AI-Powered Tool BloodGPT Set to Transform Lab Result Interpretation for Physicians and Patients | Share
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In an effort to lift administrative burdens from healthcare professionals and reduce patient anxiety, B2B healthtech startup BloodGPT unveiled its AI-powered platform on June 16, 2025. The technology seeks to s... |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Health | Health care workers push for their own confidential mental health treatment | Katheryn Houghton | KFF Health News (TNS)
States are redefining when medical professionals can get mental health treatment without risking notifying the boards that regulate their licenses.
Too often, health care workers wait to seek counse... |
| May 17, 2023 | See the 19-slide presentation that got General Catalyst to back a startup tackling a $25 billion problem for hospitals | Adonis cofounders Aman Magoon, left, chief product officer, and Akash Magoon, CEO. Adonis This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Adonis was founded last year by two brothers to a... |
| May 10, 2023 | HHS Fact Sheet: Telehealth Flexibilities and Resources and the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency | As the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS or the Department) continues the process of transitioning away from the policies enabled by the COVID-19 emergency declarations, the Department would like to provide clarity regarding the ... |
| Dec 5, 2022 | Carefully crafted digital approaches can improve youths’ mental health care | In the face of a national emergency in child and adolescent mental health, urgent measures are needed to help those in need. Many struggling youths and teens do not receive age-appropriate, timely, and affordable mental health care today.
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| Oct 7, 2022 | Another potential roadblock to wider telemedicine abortion: state medical boards | In the post-Roe landscape, advocates for abortion rights are pinning hopes on telehealth as one way to provide access in states with newly imposed limits. Startups like Abortion on Demand and Hey Jane have expanded their capacity to offer t... |
| Oct 3, 2022 | See the 11-slide presentation that convinced General Catalyst to back a startup building a better system to help insurers track their doctors | The CertifyOS team. CertifyOS This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
A group of Oscar Health alums aims to create tech to tame the chaos of healthcare-provider data.
CertifyOS, w... |
| Sep 27, 2022 | Doctors who knowingly spread Covid-19 lies should be held accountable | The California State Legislature has sent a bill to Gov. Gavin Newsom that strengthens discipline for doctors who knowingly spread Covid-19 misinformation. Legislation like this is sorely needed across the country.
More than two years into ... |
| Jul 25, 2022 | Addressing The Physician Shortage As A Health Care Provider: Recruitment Changes | By Thomas DeRosa, CEO, Physician Retraining & Reentry |
| Jul 8, 2022 | Teladoc expands Primary360 platform as telehealth use drops across the US | The news: Teladoc expanded its virtual primary care platform (Primary 360) to give members better access to more convenient care.
Primary360 members will now receive health plan in-network referrals, same-day medication delivery with digita... |
| Jul 13, 2021 | ‘The party is winding down’: States and insurers resurrect barriers to telehealth, putting strain on patients | Telemedicine is here to stay. But its free-for-all era may be coming to an end.
State-issued emergency declarations and insurer policies that were issued at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and that were meant to encourage the use of tele... |
| Nov 20, 2020 | Using Digital Technology To Deliver Mental Health Care | Revell Horsey is Director of Strategy and Partnerships at PocketSuite. A reformed investment banker, his passion is scaling startups. |
| Aug 7, 2020 | 15 Covid-19 forecasts healthcare leaders must get right | The pandemic forced healthcare systems to the epidemic frontlines. Hospitals scrambled to protect their staff, add ICU beds, secure PPE, take care of Covid-19 and non-Covid-19 patients, shift to virtual visits and reassign staff. The infect... |
| Apr 7, 2020 | USMLE Step 1 Is Now Pass/Fail - Who Benefits From This Big Change? | The USMLE (United States Medical Licensing Examination) Step 1 is a necessary hurdle that medical students must surpass, typically during their second year of medical school. The one-day exam tests students on basic science principles, spec... |
| Dec 19, 2019 | Is Blockchain the Shot in the Arm Healthcare Needs? | This post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Dr. Alex Cahana is head of healthcare and blockchain consulting at Genesis Block.
At the end of ... |
| Feb 16, 2017 | MDLive says it’s first to offer telepsychiatry nationwide | “I think it’s going to be one of the new norms,” Sharp said. “You can’t imagine banking without ATMs or online services anymore.”
MDLive, which started in 2009, now claims more than 1,300 behavioral health practitioners in its network of on... |
| Feb 2, 2017 | With Analyte collaboration Teladoc integrates lab tests into telemedicine | The collaboration, which should be in full swing by April, will allow Teladoc physicians to connect patients with an Analyte technician in their area to collect the blood or specimen sample needed to confirm a diagnosis. Results are electro... |
| Aug 24, 2015 | Morning Read: DaVita acquires dialysis operator Renal Ventures in $415M deal | The Army is testing a drug aimed at preventing hearing loss as part of a Phase 3 trial. A search is on for a company to commercialize the drug. — The Wall Street Journal
AstraZeneca has added a Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Sean Bohen will be ... |
| Feb 19, 2015 | When is it OK for doctors to google patients? | Authors note that the practice can be acceptable in some cases, but that it should be used sparingly. So what are some such situations? They list 10 possible scenarios:
— A duty to recontact or warn a patient of possible harm
— Evidence of ... |
| May 2, 2014 | Telemedicine policy wrangling underscores national adoption challenge | In a phone interview, Jonathan Linkous, the president of the American Telemedicine Association, pointed out that the federation was doing a great service to at least acknowledge telemedicine as part of the practice of medicine.
He added tha... |
| Nov 14, 2013 | State regulations are slowing health care innovation | (Diane Campbell Payne, used with permission)
By Naomi Fried
Naomi Fried, PhD, is chief innovation officer at Boston Children’s Hospital. This post is adapted from her remarks at the Connected Health Symposium on October 24, 2013. She tweets... |
| Mar 5, 2013 | Hospitals stop ignoring bad behavior by doctors and start assigning anger management | For generations, bad behavior by doctors has been explained away as an inevitable product of stress or tacitly accepted by administrators reluctant to take action and risk alienating the medical staff, particularly if the offending doctors ... |
| Sep 26, 2012 | Why patients don’t report medical errors | by Marshall Allen, ProPublica
I was recently browsing through the nearly 200 stories we’ve compiled with our Patient Harm Questionnaire, when I was reminded again of a troubling truth. Many of the people who suffer harm while undergoing med... |
| Aug 10, 2011 | The cost of our medical licensure complex | By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC
You could see the frustration in his eyes as he spoke to his fellow resident.
"I had to fork over eight hundred and thirty five dollars," he said slowly in a disgusted tone, "… and that doesn’t e... |
| Morning Read: DaVita acquires dialysis operator Renal Ventures in $415M deal | TOP STORIES
DaVita HealthCare Partners has acquired dialysis operator Renal Venture for $415 million. DaVita runs 2,210 clinics in 46 states. In addition to 36 dialysis clinics in six states, the deal gives Da Vita Multispecialty Physician ... |
| U.S. States Begin Regulating Generative Artificial Intelligence in Health Care | The health care industry has utilized artificial intelligence for decades, but the recent expansion of AI’s capabilities into generative AI models is raising questions about how and to what extent to regulate the technology.
AI is generally... |
| The social network for doctors is full of vaccine disinformation | Doctors on the industry networking site Doximity are finding their news feed inundated with anti-vaccine comments from fellow physicians.
“You rarely get to the level of microchips in vaccines, but a lot of this stuff is pretty close to it,... |
| With Analyte collaboration Teladoc integrates lab tests into telemedicine | The recent announcement involving Teladoc, a Purchase, New York-based telemedicine service provider, and Analyte Health, a Chicago-based telehealth lab diagnostics company underscores how telemedicine is coming of age.
The partnership has b... |
| When is it OK for doctors to google patients? | As physicians are increasingly asked to embrace patient engagement strategies that could spur more healthful behaviors and better coordination between visits, an interesting, but controversial “blind spot” has emerged: should doctors google... |
| Feeling dismissed? How to spot 'medical gaslighting' and what to do about it | Christina, who lives in Portland, Maine, said she felt ignored by doctors for years. When she was 50 pounds heavier, her providers sometimes blamed her body size when she discussed her health concerns.
One instance occurred weeks after she ... |
| Telemedicine policy wrangling underscores national adoption challenge | The Federation of State Medical Boards’ move to leave out telecommunications in its guidelines for the use of telemedicine has divided the national telemedicine community. But it also calls attention to the enormous challenge of instituting... |
| Hospitals stop ignoring bad behavior by doctors and start assigning anger management | At a critical point in a complex abdominal operation, a surgeon was handed a device that didn’t work because it had been loaded incorrectly by a surgical technician. Furious that she couldn’t use it, the surgeon slammed it down, accidentall... |
| The COVID-19 emergency extension could be a silver lining for some telehealth physicians | The news: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has extended the public COVID-19 emergency through October 13 of this year.
How we got here: Earlier this year, many US adults said that COVID-19 is no longer a crisis —but climbin... |
| Teladoc expands Primary360 platform as telehealth use drops across the US | The news: Teladoc expanded its virtual primary care platform (Primary 360) to give members better access to more convenient care.
Primary360 members will now receive health plan in-network referrals, same-day medication delivery with digita... |
| 15 Covid-19 forecasts healthcare leaders must get right | The annual healthcare budgeting process begins with forecasting future patient volumes, case mix, and revenue. The model baseline is the current year metrics combined with a track record of many years of forecasting. The stakes are high, as... |
| MDLive says it’s first to offer telepsychiatry nationwide | Telehealth provider MDLive said Thursday that it has become the first company to offer telepsychiatry and other virtual mental health services in all 50 states. The Sunrise, Florida-based company recently added practitioners in Mississippi ... |
