Many Medicare Patients Travel 50-Plus Miles for Neurology Visits Telemedicine can improve access to care, researchers argue Sep 15, 2023
Flu-Like Symptoms, Then Amputation; Docs Charge for Emails; Wait List for Psilocybin Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by Bվ staff Sep 15, 2023
The Wrath Toward Contract Management Groups Is Right Where It Needs to Be Emergency medicine is facing a reckoning Sep 14, 2023
Smart Inhaler for Asthma Misses the Mark for Boosting Adherence But patients on intervention had better asthma control at study end Sep 12, 2023
Stuck in the Sticking Place If you want primary care doctors to fix what's ailing our patients, give us the resources we need Sep 11, 2023
Physician Assistants Also Feel Post-Pandemic Burnout Symptoms had some PAs saying they intended to leave their clinical posts sooner rather than later Sep 11, 2023
Why One Hospital Hired an AI Prompt Engineer Boston Children's found a "unicorn-type candidate" for its newest clinical tech hire Sep 06, 2023
AI May Influence Who Can Get or Prescribe Pain Medication New tech can have unforeseen consequences if it improperly flags patients or doctors Sep 03, 2023
Mandatory Retirement Age for Physicians: Yea or Nay? Ron Harman King says age alone is arguably a poor indicator of skill Sep 03, 2023 video
NYU's Customized ChatGPT; JAMA's AI Goals; AI Projects to Ease Clinician Workload A monthly roundup of AI innovation and research in healthcare Aug 31, 2023
AI-Aided Colonoscopy Flops for Advanced Neoplasia Detection in Trial Meta-analysis turns up similar findings, though increased ADR overall Aug 28, 2023
CMS Facing Challenges Attracting Practices to Value-Based Payment Models Specialty practices say the current models often don't work for them Aug 28, 2023
We Use ChatGPT in Medical Practice -- And You Can Too These tools can make us better physicians Aug 28, 2023
Overcoming Inertia What's the best way to start making changes, large and small, to our healthcare system? Aug 28, 2023
Wrong-Eye Surgery Suit; Baby-Killer Nurse's Life Sentence; $1.4B COVID Relief Fraud A weekly roundup of healthcare's encounters with the courts Aug 24, 2023
Kaiser Permanente's National Expansion Faces Wide Skepticism Health system is promising better, cheaper care Aug 20, 2023
Questions You Should Be Asking About How Your Physician Group Works Some of the wrath toward CMGs may be misdirected Aug 19, 2023
Should Patients Be Able to Hide Parts of Their Medical Record? A proposed rule would let them do so, with the doctor's permission Aug 18, 2023
Doc Suspended for COVID Misinfo Sues, Cites Freedom of Speech Meryl Nass, MD, of Maine, filed a legal complaint against the state's medical board Aug 18, 2023
Bigger Is Not Better in Healthcare Mergers and acquisitions are not a recipe for success in our field Aug 18, 2023
Big Bump in Starting Salaries for Specialists Aging population, rise of 'market disruptors' usher in double-digit jumps for some docs Aug 15, 2023
A 'Few Bad Apple' Docs Spread COVID Misinformation on Social Media Findings are still "extraordinarily damning," one doctor says Aug 15, 2023
AI Beat Clinicians at Figuring Out Difficult Diagnoses GPT-4 may help with diagnoses that have been missed by clinicians, study author says Aug 14, 2023
The Dreaded Cocktail Party Conversation Telling fellow party-goers you're a doctor comes with its own set of hazards Aug 14, 2023
America's Growing Lack of Trust in Medicine Eric Reinhart, MD, on the U.S. and its "horrific public health" Aug 09, 2023 video
Shouldn't Nurses Run the Business of Healthcare? We need more nurses on the front line, but we also need them leading change in business Aug 08, 2023
Former Chief of Surgery Sues Ohio Hospital for Defamation Doctor accuses Adena Health of defamation for claiming he lied to local media Aug 07, 2023
One Size Doesn't Fit All for Automated BP Measurement Cuffs, Trial Finds "Strikingly inaccurate" readings with ill-fitting cuffs, especially on larger arms Aug 07, 2023
It Shouldn't Take Another Pandemic to Invest in Digital Health We should expand, not restrict, the use of digital solutions Aug 06, 2023
Petition to End Maintenance of Certification Rallies More Than 10K Signers Physicians push back on "burdensome, costly" program Aug 04, 2023
When It Comes to Eye Care, AI Couldn't See Straight ChatGPT gave bogus and even potentially harmful answers to retinal disease questions, study shows Aug 04, 2023
CMS Announces New Dementia Care Model for Medicare Patients Aims to provide more coordinated, ongoing care Jul 31, 2023
No-Shows Have Got to Go! We need to improve no-show rates, but overbooking is not the answer Jul 31, 2023
Could AI Cause Burnout in Medicine? Some concern that new technology could be more of a problem than a solution Jul 29, 2023
Remote Urine Drug Screening Feasible for Opioid Use Disorder, Study Shows More than 80% of patients completed screening in the first 30 days Jul 28, 2023
The Wild West of Online Testosterone Prescribing Online "low T" clinics thrived during the pandemic, but changing rules could bring them down Jul 28, 2023
Oncologist Turns Burnout Into a Musical Writing musicals is a "way to get back in touch with why we all went into medicine" Jul 27, 2023