Robert Pearl, M.D., Contributor

Generative AI will transform medicine as we know it. In the same way the iPhone become an essential part of our lives in what seemed like no time, ChatGPT (or whatever generative AI tool leads the way) will alter medical practice forever and for better.

To understand why drug prices are rising rapidly while drug innovation lags, it’s helpful to look at how biopharmaceutical research and development (R&D) has changed. This evolution has led to a conglomerate of monopolies.

Market consolidation limits competition, choice and access to goods and services, all of which drive up prices. But there’s another—often overlooked—consequence.

No one physician can effectively treat the totality of patient problems in the 21st century. Thus, healthcare leaders must undo the myth that medicine is an individual sport.

Republicans and Democrats are divided on just about everything. Yet, here are three healthcare policies that could gain bipartisan support and prove beneficial for American patients in 2023.

In today’s fee-for-service healthcare system, quantity is rewarded with far greater gusto than quality. This article gives leaders a way to change the payment model for the benefit of patients and physicians.

Cost, quality and access were always seen as tradeoffs in healthcare. You could have two but only at the sacrifice of the third. This article explains that leadership and technology are keys to unlocking all three improvements.

To achieve excellence in healthcare, leaders must be able to change people’s minds, generate emotion and maintain courage in the face of adversity. Putting the anatomic pieces together, success will be determined by how leaders use their brains, hearts…