The phenomenon of taking five or more medicines at the same time has become so common that it now has its own term – polypharmacy – and there is no doubt that it increases the risk of dizziness, confusion, and loss of balance.
As patients take to social media, in all its ungated glory and promotion of misinformation, how can they be certain that what they are getting is accurate? What voices can they trust?
Zelis highlights how employers, payers, and consumers are integrating digital tools to manage healthcare costs.
Now is the time to solve the industry’s identity crisis, and it can only be done through a combination of phishing-resistant and adaptive MFA, fine-grained access control, and standards-based interoperability.
OSHA and NIOSH recommend that all hospitals develop comprehensive violence prevention programs. Here are some action items that provide a framework for building a legally defensible program.
These day-to-day issues are directly responsible for rising rates of clinician burnout, exacerbating the serious shortage of doctors and nurses facing the US in the next decade.
Innovations in biomarker science, particularly in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and blood, are expanding Alzheimer’s testing beyond specialty care.
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
The patient's voice should be an entry point and not a barrier to better compliance and health outcomes. A nurse practitioner outlines a protocol for a frank exam-room exchange that sustains cultural humility.
Some of the most powerful scenes aren’t the dramatic saves, but the quiet moments when clinicians connect with patients amid the chaos. Healthcare teams deserve access systems that allow for more of those moments.
Digitization has certainly cut down on the paperwork glut in healthcare. But if that’s the extent of technology’s impact on the patient experience, it’s clearly not enough.
To give patients the care they deserve and improve healthcare’s return on investment, PCPs can harness intelligent, clinically fluent AI – not to replace or override physicians or give them what tech companies think they need, but to support them in pragmatic ways.
Enterprise EHR boosts scalability, interoperability, and governance for large healthcare systems.
This is not a debate about care models or physician preferences. It is a contest over who will control the referral pathways and the revenue streams that originate at the front door of healthcare.
Over the past 15 years, financial and administrative barriers – most notably step therapy mandates and prior authorization requirements – have repeatedly forced patients through suboptimal or ineffective treatments before they can try another therapy, have tied the hands of healthcare professionals and patients alike. Now there's a possible solution.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S., yet with Americans lacking access to preventive heart screenings, we’re stuck in a cycle of treating symptoms rather than preventing disease
More therapeutic options times more data per option times the same number of clinical hours equals something that breaks. The practices that will thrive when the next wave of longevity therapeutics arrives are the ones that have already solved this.
The future of surgery will be shaped less by what our tools can do than by how well our systems help humans think when it matters most. The question is no longer whether the OR will evolve. It’s who will lead the transition