Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, federal policymakers have enacted 31 changes to enable greater access to telehealth. In a hearing this week, members...
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As a family medicine practitioner, Dr. Dillon Miller, medical director at Blue Ridge Medical Group in Blue Ridge, Georgia, was faced with challenges erupting...
According to a study commissioned by the security software vendor Avira, 71% of Americans say they won’t use COVID-19 contact-tracing apps, with many...
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit us off guard. The need to fight the virus has been urgent and all-encompassing and, as a result, medical focus has been largely...
For more than three years, at DZD (Deutsches Zentrum für Diabetesforschung), the German Centre for Diabetes Research, we have been using graph software to help...
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights moved to roll back protections for transgender people under Section...
As consumerism has become a powerful force in the healthcare industry, the patient experience has become more important than ever. Patients want to be treated...
As it has in so many other areas of the U.S. healthcare system, the coronavirus crisis has highlighted some fundamental challenges with regard to...
Overuse or misuse of antibiotics in hospital settings is a global problem, fueling one of the most serious public health threats: antimicrobial resistance. An...
This past week, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma said she “can’t imagine going back” to making...
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic plaguing countries worldwide has created unprecedented change for the global economy, especially healthcare institutions at the...
U.S. Reps. G.K. Butterfield, D-North Carolina, and Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., introduced new legislation this week that would provide for permanent Medicare...
SIR SIMON STEVENS ON BLACK LIVES MATTER NHS chief executive Simon Stevens, internally shared a personal message on Black Lives Matter with all NHS England and...
A recent estimate by consulting firm McKinsey suggests that $250 billion in healthcare spending could shift to virtual care models in the wake of the COVID-19...
Editor’s note: This story will be continually updated, with new vendors added to the list. As health systems work to meet the imperatives of quality...
Healthcare is at an inflection point. Machine learning and data science are becoming key components in developing predictive and prescriptive analytics. AI...