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| Sep 1, 2026 | Morning Show Season 4’s Deepfake Science Was Right: Voice Cloning Now Sounds Real | By Roger Satterfield
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| Aug 5, 2026 | ‘Big Short’ Michael Burry warns of ‘a 1987-type fall’ |
Despite the recent string of strong earnings reports filed by various big tech firms, Michael Burry doubled down on his bearish stance in a recent Substack post, even warning the stock market might soon face ‘a 1987-type fall.’
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| Jun 8, 2026 | Bob Kevess, MD Examines Healthcare Coordination Strategies That Improve Continuity of Care | Share
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| Mar 12, 2026 | Microsoft launches Copilot Health to help consumers understand their medical data
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Copilot Health became available today through a waitlist open to U.S. adults. Microsoft plans to expand a... |
| Jan 6, 2026 | Designing Trust-Centered Digital Health Systems for Sensitive Patient Interactions | Digital health tools now shape many of the most sensitive moments in the patient experience. Individuals use digital platforms to report concerns, describe symptoms they hesitate to discuss in person, and provide feedback that carries emoti... |
| Oct 20, 2025 | Bass Elected to the National Academy of Medicine | Joseph Bass, MD, PhD, the Charles F. Kettering Professor of Medicine, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM).
Joseph Bass, MD, PhD, the Charles F. Kettering Professor of Medicine, has been elected to the National Academy... |
| Oct 10, 2025 | Beyond Bias: 5 Strategies for Clinicians to Deliver Equitable Mental Health | Michelle DeCoux Hampton, PhD, RN Associate Dean of Operations, Samuel Merritt University, College of Nursing
Two 20-year-old males were evaluated at an urban emergency department (based on composite cases). They both experienced hallucinati... |
| Aug 11, 2025 | Can magnesium really help you sleep better – or just give you weird dreams? | Listen
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| Oct 23, 2024 | NQF President & CEO Dana Gelb Safran Elected to National Academy of Medicine | National Quality Forum (NQF) logo
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Election to the Academy recognizes outstanding professional achievement and is one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine
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| Sep 26, 2024 | CHC: Creating Healthier Communities Elects Daniel Dawes to its National Board of Directors | Dr. Daniel Dawes joins CHC to ensure that all communities have access to the resources they need to thrive.
Public health trailblazer Dr. Daniel Dawes joins CHC to address the barriers and drivers of health and ensure that all communities h... |
| Aug 2, 2024 | Responsible AI in Medicine for Underserved Populations | Dr. Steve Miff, President and CEO of Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI)
Artificial intelligence (AI) is making a tangible difference in healthcare today. It’s not about science fiction or flashy gimmicks. It’s not about deep fak... |
| Jul 14, 2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Stephanie Harrison: Americans are getting our ‘pursuit of happiness’ all wrong. There’s a simple fix. | This belief is further amplified by the difficulties of living in our Old Happy culture. We have no social safety net and are the only developed nation that does not offer a paid family leave policy, even though years of research has found ... |
| Jun 26, 2024 | CHAI Releases Draft Responsible Health AI Framework | What You Should Know:
– Today the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) released a draft framework for responsible health AI with an invitation for public review and comment.
– The framework, consisting of an Assurance Standards Guide, provides co... |
| Jun 25, 2024 | Breast and Cervical Cancer Initiative Sees 137% Increase in Clinical Services in Atlanta Communities | In Atlanta, Black women are 39% more likely to die from breast cancer and Hispanic women are 30% more likely to die from cervical cancer than women of other races/ethnicities.
The CHC: Creating Healthier Communities collaboration addresses ... |
| Jun 12, 2024 | Health | Tips for beach safety in the sun, sand and sea | ____
Lois Lee, MD, MPH, FAAP, Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Injury, Violence and Poison Prevention, is a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Boston Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics and... |
| Jun 5, 2024 | Costs of Care names Dr. Vineet Arora as Chairperson of the Board of Directors | Dr. Vineet Arora
Dr. Vineet Arora, Herbert T. Abelson Professor of Medicine and Dean for Medical Education at The University of Chicago Medicine, Pritzker School of Medicine, has been named Chairperson of the Board of Costs of Care.
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| May 9, 2024 | Nurse Burnout: How Digital Transformation Can Be the Antidote | Connie Moser, Chief Executive Officer, Navenio
The COVID-19 pandemic has catalyzed a profound transformation within the healthcare sector, revealing an urgent need to modernize and enhance the way care is delivered. Amidst the global crisis... |
| Apr 8, 2024 | The National Academy of Medicine Unveils Draft Code for Responsible AI in Healthcare | What You Should Know:
– The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) is taking a pioneering step towards ensuring the ethical and safe use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare.
– A new report, “Artificial Intelligence in Health, Health C... |
| Feb 22, 2024 | Health | Do we simply not care about old people? | Judith Graham | KFF Health News (TNS)
The COVID-19 pandemic would be a wake-up call for America, advocates for the elderly predicted: incontrovertible proof that the nation wasn’t doing enough to care for vulnerable older adults.
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| Jan 20, 2024 | Embracing the Inevitability of Aging With a Health System That Supports Doing So Gracefully | As the United States experiences demographic shifts, accelerated aging is becoming a notable trend with profound implications for various sectors, including healthcare, social services, and the economy. The aging population in the U.S. is e... |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Care Guidance: The Human-Enabled Tech Solution for Clinical Staff | Craig Parker, JD, CPA and CEO, Guideway Care
Hospitals, health systems and group practices nationwide are finding value and effectiveness by partnering with an outsourced care guidance resource to extend clinical staff and strengthen care m... |
| Sep 27, 2023 | EIT Health Awards 12 Elder Care Start-ups up to €50K | We are proud to announce the latest Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awardees. These awards are part of the Healthy Longevity Global Competition, which champions ground-breaking innovations focused on enhancing health and vitality in later life.
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| Jul 20, 2023 | Mass. General totes up its waste in a move to tackle climate change | On an August Thursday in 2021, deep into the pandemic, two Massachusetts General Hospital doctors stood gowned, gloved, bootied up and ready in a retrofitted lounge on the 21st floor of Phillips House, a 20-single-room, inpatient area with ... |
| Mar 9, 2023 | Commission for Case Manager Certification commends strength of social workers during National Social Work Month | MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (PRWEB) March 09, 2023
The Commission for Case Manager Certification applauds social workers this National Social Work Month for their contributions to improving health care outcomes and announces a new affiliation to sup... |
| Mar 8, 2023 | Healthcare Worker Burnout Is Rampant- Here’s What Should Be Done | WEST HILLS, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 12: Monique Hernandez, a nurse at Riverside Community Hospital in ... [+] Riverside, CA, Xochitl Gonzalez, a patient care tech at Los Robles Hospital in Thousand Oaks, CA, and Mary Blackman, a former nursing... |
| Mar 2, 2023 | Humana And UnitedHealth Want To Invest More Deeply In Housing | Sometimes the best “merger-like” news doesn’t make the headlines. |
| Feb 24, 2023 | Fixing U.S. public health will require a health-systems revolution — and for physicians to take a backseat | A classic warning in public health goes like this: “A society that spends so much on health care that it cannot or will not spend adequately on other health enhancing activities may actually be reducing the health of its population.”
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| Jan 11, 2023 | Predictions for the longevity industry in 2023 | Abby Miller Levy Contributor
Abby Miller Levy is the managing partner and co-founder of Primetime Partners. She formerly served as the SVP of strategy and growth at SoulCycle and founded Thrive Global with Arianna Huffington.
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| Dec 2, 2022 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Anjana Susarla: Lifting COVID misinformation ban was dangerous move by Twitter | By Anjana Susarla
Twitter’s decision to no longer enforce its COVID-19 misinformation policy, quietly posted on the site’s rules page and listed as effective Nov. 23, 2022, has researchers and experts in public health seriously concerned ab... |
| Dec 1, 2022 | Africa: Twitter Lifted Its Ban On Covid Misinformation - Research Shows This Is a Grave Risk to Public Health | Twitter's decision to no longer enforce its COVID-19 misinformation policy, quietly posted on the site's rules page and listed as effective Nov. 23, 2022, has researchers and experts in public health seriously concerned about the ... |
| Nov 14, 2022 | Renewing Covid's Status As A Public Health Emergency Was The Right Call. Here's Why | CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images |
| Nov 1, 2022 | National Academy of Medicine to Host SYNERGY Event Aimed at Envisioning a Future HealthScience System | Dr. Michael McGinnis on "...working to facilitate the alignment of science, informatics, incentives, and culture to accelerate progress. The vision is now clearer, but advances in practical execution depend up on the sorts of discussio... |
| Oct 28, 2022 | How motivational interviewing can improve health workforce well-being | The National Academy of Medicine launched its National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being in early October. Citing years of research defining the causes and effects of burnout in health professions, internationally recognized leaders in h... |
| Oct 24, 2022 | Tech Moves: Madrona hires former Bezos technical advisor; Seattle Children’s names COO | Wei Gao (left) and Anna Baird. (Madrona Photos)
— Seattle-based firm Madrona Venture Group appointed Wei Gao as venture partner and Anna Baird as operating partner.
Gao was most recently chief operating officer at Hopin, a London-based even... |
| Sep 30, 2022 | How the Inflation Reduction Act can help decarbonize the health care industry | The climate crisis — the greatest threat to human health in history — is often framed “in ways that pay little attention to its health dimensions,” as the authors of The Lancet’s annual “Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Ch... |
| Sep 1, 2022 | Economic instability, loneliness, food insecurity block seniors from accessing care, survey finds | The top three social barriers for seniors accessing healthcare are economic instability, loneliness and food insecurity, according to a survey released Monday.
The study by Medicare Advantage insurer Alignment Healthcare surveyed 2,601 adul... |
| Aug 23, 2022 | SDoH: Today’s Health Systems Are Ill-Equipped to Meet SDOH Demands
| Gary Druckenmiller Jr., General Manager of PRM at Innovaccer
Today’s youth understand the role SDoH plays in their health outcomes. But health systems are woefully ill-equipped to meet this growing demand. That needs to change. And with the... |
| Aug 1, 2022 | Keeping climate provisions in the budget reconciliation act is a key step toward protecting Americans’ health | Last week’s surprise agreement between Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) makes the pending budget reconciliation act —now called the Inflation Reduction Act — perhaps the most important health care... |
| Jun 26, 2022 | AI is transforming medicine: Here’s how we make sure it works for everyone | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
What if your doctor could instantly test dozens o... |
| Jun 23, 2022 | Addressing the Mental Health Impact of the COVID Pandemic on Healthcare Workers | Eric J. Hall
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No. 4 in Series: Spiritual Care Association Committed to Developing Resources, Tools for Chaplains to Become Better Educated in Mental, Behavioral Health Issues NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, June 23, 2022... |
| Jun 22, 2022 | Health care has a carbon problem. Health tech can help fix it | As climate change threatens the health of the planet — and everyone living on it — health care leaders are beginning to taking notice. As well they should: the health care industry is one of the world’s biggest sources of carbon emissions.
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| May 23, 2022 | New Surgeon General Advisory Sounds Alarm on Health Worker Burnout and Resignation | During Mental Health Awareness Month, Surgeon General’s Advisory Highlights the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Workers, Who Already Faced Crisis Levels of Burnout Prior to the Pandemic
There is a Projected Shortage of More than ... |
| May 4, 2022 | Raising Clinical Outcomes and Engagement Through Healthcare Equity: What Health Plans Need to Know | Anne Davis, VP of Government Markets & Strategy at Wellth
Structural racism and poverty are correlated with a higher incidence of obesity among Black Americans (49%). Social drivers of health, which impact a disproportionate number of n... |
| Apr 22, 2022 | HHS Launches Pledge Initiative to Mobilize Health Care Sector to Reduce Emissions | June event hosted by the White House will highlight private sector commitments
Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in partnership with the White House, is issuing a call to action for health care stakeholders to commit... |
| Mar 28, 2022 | HHS’s failure to address the health harms of climate crisis constitutes environmental and institutional racism | The 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination against recipients of federal funding, including those covered by Medicaid and Medicare, along with actions that have racially disparate impacts. The Department of Health and Human Services... |
| Mar 14, 2022 | Breaking The Rules Of Healthcare: Following The Science | Surgeons looking at magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scans during brain surgery. getty |
| Jan 4, 2022 | Shifting the healthcare labor paradigm with efficient, on-demand models | Burnout, stress and overload have crippled healthcare workers for a decade. The pandemic only shined a brighter light on an already rapidly spiraling HR nightmare; a staffing crisis across the system’s most critical roles.
Overworked staffe... |
| Nov 15, 2021 | It’s time for individuals — not doctors or companies — to own their health data | Health data should be like a mountain stream, flowing in a single direction with a clear purpose: improving health and medical outcomes. Instead, it’s a complex puzzle that only data scientists and physicians can meaningfully put together a... |
| Nov 5, 2021 | I worry that burnout can’t be reversed and has fundamentally changed me as a doctor and a person | It took me four months to write this sentence.
I wanted to capture my feelings as a doctor in training who has been bludgeoned by the Covid-19 pandemic the last year and a half. But I’ve been too burned out to write about burnout.
It first ... |
| Oct 15, 2021 | The National Academy of Medicine’s climate crisis effort must turn words into action | With little fanfare and even less notice, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) recently launched its Action Collaborative on Decarbonizing the U.S. Health Sector.
During a kick-off event, speakers made clear that the time for action is no... |
| Sep 29, 2021 | HealthTech startup Wider Circle bags $38M in Series B funding to scale its tech-enabled neighborhood health programs to the national level | Medical care is estimated to account for only 10-20 percent of a person’s health, according to research from the National Academy of Medicine. The other 80 to 90% can be broadly attributed to social determinants of health (SDoH) which affec... |
| Sep 27, 2021 | Adtalem Global Education : Chamberlain University Launches Actionable Framework to Expand National Focus on Increasing Diversity in Nursing | Chamberlain University Launches Actionable Framework to Expand National Focus on Increasing Diversity in Nursing
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| Sep 27, 2021 | Building resilience and well-being: keys to avoiding the worst of a looming shortage of health care workers | During the marathon of Covid-19, nurses and other health care workers have faced unprecedented levels of work stress as the world approaches two years of this global pandemic — and that stress isn’t easing anytime soon. Health care systems ... |
| Sep 20, 2021 | Consumerism is driving a bold new vision for home healthcare | Healthcare provided in the home, which was previously considered a care delivery option primarily for seniors and rural patients, is now evolving into an expectation among healthcare consumers of all stripes.
Today, consumers want healthcar... |
| Sep 14, 2021 | Patient care is displaced for good. Can our tech keep up? | Covid-19 has broken down the traditional walls of healthcare and turned our idea of what it means to visit a doctor’s office or hospital upside down. It accelerated a nascent trend in displacing care delivery from traditional outpatient and... |
| Aug 19, 2021 | Soda Health launches to tackle health inequities by paying for food, OTC meds | Photo: ljubaphoto/Getty Images |
| May 26, 2021 | How to Bolster EHR Efficiency and Access to Offer Better Patient Care | Dessiree Paoli, Senior Solution Marketing Manager at Interlace Health
Over the past few decades, technology has advanced health care in incredible ways. Between robotic surgery, training through augmented reality, and the use of wearables t... |
| Apr 28, 2021 | After 40 years, medical schools are admitting fewer Black male or Native American students | In what some are calling a “persistent failure” of medical schools to improve diversity, a comprehensive new analysis going back 40 years shows the number of students from the most underrepresented groups in medicine — Black males and Nativ... |
| Apr 1, 2021 | 3M COMPANY
3M : Launches Analytics Platform that Integrates Social and Clinical Risk Data to Improve Population Health | SALT LAKE CITY, April 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- 3M Health Information Systems has introduced a new technology platform that allows health care providers and payers to prioritize care and allocate resources for high-risk individuals and patien... |
| Apr 1, 2021 | 3M Launches Analytics Platform that Integrates Social and Clinical Risk Data to Improve Population Health | |
| Feb 23, 2021 | Can You Trust Digital Health Firms To Trust You? | When you're alone and scared, even the "pseudo-compassion" of an AI chatbot can provide comfort, but ... [+] building lasting trust requires much more.getty |
| Jan 13, 2021 | Lessons From Covid-19 Can Prepare Us For The Next Pandemic | SARS-CoV-2 emerged as the perfect biological storm.Eva Marie Uzcategui Trinkl/Anadolu Agency |
| Oct 15, 2020 | EIT Health names winning longevity innovations | EIT Health, together with seven global collaborators representing nearly 50 countries and territories, today announced the winners of the inaugural round of Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards. The awards are part of the Healthy Longevity Glo... |
| Mar 10, 2020 | If Covid-19 gets bad, triage will be needed. Are we ready for that? | The emergence of a new infectious disease that rapidly spreads around the world, like Covid-19, makes disaster planning experts move into overdrive. Lessons learned over the last decade can help cope with the spread of the novel coronavirus... |
| Jan 6, 2020 | A reality check on Artificial Intelligence: Are healthcare claims overblown? | Even the Food and Drug Administration which has approved more than 40 AI products in the past five years says “the potential of digital health is nothing short of revolutionary.”
Yet many health industry experts fear AI-based products won’t... |
| Oct 21, 2019 | EIT Health invites start-ups to join global competition targeting improvements in healthy longevity | Kurt Höller, EIT Health Business Creation Director, said he is happy “to bring our EIT Health Headstart Programme into this Health Global Grand Challenge and to join forces with the National Academy of Medicine and all these great instituti... |
| Oct 7, 2019 | Social determinants of health data and population health | Physicians and nurses have long known what has become increasingly obvious to hospitals, health systems and health plans — social determinants of health (SDoH) have an outsized impact on health outcomes. In fact, research suggests that medi... |
| Jun 6, 2019 | Proposed patent legislation would block research, stifle innovation, and harm patients | In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of innovation when it struck down a patent that gave one company a stranglehold on genetic testing for a common breast cancer gene. Congress appears to be planning to undo that ruling, a move t... |
| May 8, 2019 | The ability to scale: Why just about everyone is talking about SDoH | If you’re in healthcare, you know social determinants of health (SDoH) are a very popular topic these days. It may be tempting to say, “Enough already,” but I urge you not to.
That’s because researchers believe social determinants drive mor... |
| Apr 11, 2019 | Electronic health records are still waiting to be transformed | Early in my career as an ear, nose, and throat physician and surgeon, two different patients came to me with the same set of bizarre symptoms. Certain noises made their eyes move involuntarily, and objects they were looking at appeared to m... |
| Dec 4, 2018 | Betterment Through Automated Benchmarking in the Era of Value-based Care | In the era of value-based care provision, automated benchmarking technology in hospitals enables real-world, reliable data insights for understanding, improving and promoting provider performance.
Value-based healthcare is here to stay. Hos... |
| Oct 24, 2018 | David Beier Appointed to NAM Action Collaborative | David Beier is pleased to be appointed to join public health colleagues in an Action Collaborative established by the National Academy of Medicine to address the challenges of the Opioid crisis. This impressive set of experts come from mult... |
| Aug 3, 2018 | How is Stanford Medicine’s Chief Wellness Officer seeking to reduce physician burnout? (Q&A) | He lives in Portola Valley, Calif., with his wife, a nurse, who works part-time, and their four children, ages 4 to 13.
Dr. Tait Shanafelt (Julie Greicius/Stanford School of Medicine)
Shanafelt’s goal is to address the systemic problems in ... |
| Jun 26, 2018 | Healthcare heats up with Google on FHIR | The list of billion-dollar companies turned healthcare disruptors in 2018 continues to grow. Alphabet recently joined the likes of Apple, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JP Morgan Chase, and Walmart to target the largest sector of the economy. ... |
| Jun 21, 2018 | Medical training programs need to care about physician burnout. Should the rest of us? | The medical profession is waking up to the fact that too many doctors are burned out in their jobs with plenty of public handwringing. There’s no question it’s a big issue for physicians. But should the rest of us care about it?
I’m not sur... |
| Mar 21, 2018 | Shortchanging global health now will cost us later | The White House recently released a report outlining the progress and investments the U.S. has made to make the world safer from the threat of epidemics. But the key to epidemic preparedness and response is the Centers for Disease Control a... |
| Feb 15, 2018 | Collective action needed to stem burnout and restore clinician well-being and resilience | Every day, as people from all walks of life deal with burnout, they often turn to health care professionals for help. Yet the very people who dedicate their lives to keeping others healthy are the ones increasingly suffering from burnout. M... |
| Dec 7, 2017 | The surgeon general and his brother: A family’s painful reckoning with addiction | MECHANICSVILLE, Md. — The path that Dr. Jerome Adams took to the office of U.S. surgeon general begins in this southern Maryland town, where crab restaurants dot the rural landscape, where signs warn drivers to watch out for Amish horse-dra... |
| Sep 22, 2017 | Military medics and corpsmen could help fill the shortage of primary care providers | For more than a century, the United States military has relied on enlisted health care providers — primarily medics and corpsmen — to provide lifesaving care to sick and wounded service members aboard ships, on distant airfields, and on bat... |
| Mar 22, 2017 | The National Academy Of Medicine’s Vital Directions For Health: Forging a Path for our Future | Contributor, Bill Frist – Health is more than healthcare. Smart reform looks beyond the current conversation of repeal and replace. It must include an active and empowered consumer making choices that matter within a modern, connected, know... |
| Sep 22, 2016 | What Is the Value Proposition of Adopting A Behavioral Health EHR? | Editor’s Note: D’Arcy Guerin Gue is a co-founder of Phoenix, with over 25 years of experience in executive leadership, strategic planning, IT services, knowledge leadership, and industry relations — with a special focus on patient engagemen... |
| Jan 14, 2016 | West Africa Ebola outbreak is declared over at last | For the first time in more than two years, all three West African countries at the heart of the worst Ebola outbreak ever seen were declared free of the disease on Thursday, marking a landmark moment in a hard-fought victory.
The World Heal... |
| Nov 6, 2015 | Watch: Meet one of the world’s most groundbreaking scientists. He’s 34.
CRISPR studies by year and country | As the dish of steamed chicken feet clattered onto the table, an impish toddler drummed with her chop sticks. Nobody in the noisy restaurant in Boston’s Chinatown gave a second glance at the man dressed in a polo shirt and jeans enjoying di... |
| The nation hasn’t made much progress on health equity. These leaders forged ahead anyway | This special report is the second of two parts. Read part one here.
When Quinn Capers IV took over as associate dean of admissions at the Ohio State University College of Medicine in 2009, just 13% of the entering class came from racial and... |
| Social determinants of health data and population health | Physicians and nurses have long known what has become increasingly obvious to hospitals, health systems and health plans — social determinants of health (SDoH) have an outsized impact on health outcomes. In fact, research suggests that medi... |
| ‘I fear the long-term effects’: Before his death, a nurse warned of the pandemic’s toll on health care workers | In early 2020, Michael Odell sensed that Covid-19 would hit hard. A young intensive care nurse who traveled to hospitals needing an extra hand, he told his family that demand for people like him was surging.
By April 2, just a few weeks int... |
| Shifting the healthcare labor paradigm with efficient, on-demand models | Burnout, stress and overload have crippled healthcare workers for a decade. The pandemic only shined a brighter light on an already rapidly spiraling HR nightmare; a staffing crisis across the system’s most critical roles.
Overworked staffe... |
| How is Stanford Medicine’s Chief Wellness Officer seeking to reduce physician burnout? (Q&A) | Stanford Medicine hired Dr. Tait Shanafelt as chief wellness officer last year, not so much for the well-being of the patients — but of the physicians.
An oncologist and hematologist by training, Shanafelt, 46, has become a national leader ... |
| ‘If I were a hospital, I’d be reading the tea leaves’: Pressures grow on the health care industry to reduce its climate pollution | Flooding, heat waves, wildfires, and other climate-driven weather extremes in recent years have catapulted hospitals into emergency mode and devastated the communities they serve, with Hurricane Ian’s deadly rampage through central Florida ... |
| The ability to scale: Why just about everyone is talking about SDoH | If you’re in healthcare, you know social determinants of health (SDoH) are a very popular topic these days. It may be tempting to say, “Enough already,” but I urge you not to.
That’s because researchers believe social determinants drive mor... |
| Consumerism is driving a bold new vision for home healthcare | Healthcare provided in the home, which was previously considered a care delivery option primarily for seniors and rural patients, is now evolving into an expectation among healthcare consumers of all stripes.
Today, consumers want healthcar... |
| Healthcare heats up with Google on FHIR | The list of billion-dollar companies turned healthcare disruptors in 2018 continues to grow. Alphabet recently joined the likes of Apple, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JP Morgan Chase, and Walmart to target the largest sector of the economy. ... |
| How to address healthcare’s climate emergency | Is sustainability in healthcare the missing piece in the climate jigsaw? While the focus over the last few years has been on the corporate sector going green, have we all missed the opportunities that are emerging as the global healthcare c... |
| Solving for social determinants: A collaborative approach for the health IT industry | By Geoff Caplea, MD, FAAFP, Allscripts Vice President of Clinical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer
The social determinants of health (SDOHs), or the circumstances in which people are born, live, learn, work, and play, have a profound effec... |
| A reality check on Artificial Intelligence: Are healthcare claims overblown? | Health products powered by artificial intelligence, or AI, are streaming into our lives, from virtual doctor apps to wearable sensors and drugstore chatbots.
IBM boasted that its AI could “outthink cancer.” Others say computer systems that ... |
| The current narrative on healthcare burnout is just plain wrong | We see the headlines every day: healthcare workers are burned out, dissatisfied and leaving the workforce. Surveys show this is currently the number one issue on the minds of hospital CEOs. Staffing shortages negatively affect patient safet... |
| Patient care is displaced for good. Can our tech keep up? | Covid-19 has broken down the traditional walls of healthcare and turned our idea of what it means to visit a doctor’s office or hospital upside down. It accelerated a nascent trend in displacing care delivery from traditional outpatient and... |
