There is little evidence that healthcare consolidation improves patient care or lowers healthcare costs, experts told lawmakers at a hearing this week. The speakers, economic and health policy experts from Harvard, Duke University and Carnegie Mellon, don’t expect healthcare’s drive for mergers to slow down, however.
A female patient treated by a female doctor is less likely to be admitted to a restricted intensive care unit, where beds and other resources are limited, according to a new study. The research is touted as first-of-its kind proof that gender bias affects treatment decisions—but stopped short of delving into the consequences.
Penn Medicine has launched a Center for Connected Health, which features 50 full-time employees and pulls together several telehealth programs geared toward urgent care, ICU patients and those with chronic illnesses. The new center comes at a time when…
A study that looked at new physicians in New York state had discouraging news for female doctors. Researchers found that not only have differences in pay persisted between newly trained male and female doctors, the gap has grown over time. The biggest difference in starting pay was among dermatologists, as male doctors earned $79,815 more than women.
The FDA plans to use approximately $400 million to create a Center of Excellence on Digital Health, which would house the agency’s new precertification program, and develop analytic and natural language processing tools to integrate real-world data fro…
A New York surgeon was sentenced to 13 years in prison for the submission of millions of dollars in false and fraudulent Medicare claims; Despite efforts to detect and treat depression during primary care visits, a study found that only one-third of pa…
Hospital patients are still interested in chaplain services, even as fewer people identify as religious; seniors may recover from surgery more quickly if they mentally and physically “train” for it; plus more healthcare news from around the web.
No-show patients are an annoying and costly problem for practices, but the community-based Elmont Teaching Health Center in Long Island, New York, is making headway. And “if it works here, it can work anywhere,” one of the center’s physicians, Peter A. Guiney, D.O., tells FierceHealthcare.
Newly confirmed Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told the House Committee on Ways and Means Wednesday morning that the Trump administration’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2019 makes significant and strategic investment in health programs, boosting discretionary spending by 11% and increasing funding for the National Institutes of Health and Food and Drug Administration by millions.
To many people, Valentine’s Day is a day for romantic gestures—or at the very least, a hearty helping of chocolate. But to healthcare influencers, academics and reporters on Twitter, it’s also a time to break out their best witticisms for #HealthPolicyValentines.
