Category: Modern Healthcare

Cleveland Clinic has a lofty goal for a new building on its main campus: to revolutionize healthcare education as we know it.

A growing number of health systems are increasing their research on patients in order to better understand what they want and expect as consumerism takes hold.

In the lead-up to 2018 midterms, Democrats appear poised for inroads on Republican-controlled legislatures and governors’ mansions, which could push the states to make the healthcare compromises that Washington can’t.

New research has found that patients who spent more time with therapy dogs increased their risk of contracting the superbug MRSA — a warning to hospitals that haven’t examined their policies surrounding the popular programs.

Home healthcare programs are proliferating as health plans and at-risk providers look for ways to keep patients out of the hospital or from returning after being discharged.

Trump’s Medicare Part B drug cost plan could move forward, particularly if Democrats win control of the House.

Observers are divided over whether the Trump administration’s moves to allow states to sidestep certain aspects of the Affordable Care Act will ultimately harm the marketplace and the vulnerable people who shop for coverage there.

Several heavy hitters deliver their earnings results this week, including insurers Aetna and Anthem, both of which are expected to build on positive results from the prior quarter.

Northwell Health is poised to open what it’s calling the world’s largest medical sterilization center this month. The $80 million facility will clean 22 million instruments per year.

The abuse and misuse of the patent system by drugmakers needs to stop, and patients and consumer advocates deserve more say in the patent system.