A majority of U.S. adults — 52 percent — rated the quality of healthcare as either “only fair” or “poor,” with 68 percent indicating it is at a crisis point/has major problems in Gallup’s “Health and Healthcare survey” for 2023.
They don’t teach empathy in medical school. A physician’s bedside manner evolves through experience and is inspired by one’s personal ability — and desire — to read a patient’s emotional cues. Some have a knack for it; others focus on the medicine with…
Overland Park, Kan.-based emergency room physician Gautam Jayaswal, MD, pleaded guilty to ordering millions of dollars’ worth of unnecessary genetic tests and orthotic braces as a part of a telemedicine fraud scheme, the Justice Department said May 9.&…
Envision Healthcare, a private equity-backed physician services company and ambulatory surgery center operator, plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as early as this weekend, The Wall Street Journal reported May 10.
Children’s hospitals and other pediatric healthcare providers are working to identify and dismantle discriminatory care practices that fuel racial health disparities, according to a May 9 article from The Commonwealth Fund.
Despite tightening budgets, many health systems are still investing in technology to enhance the digital patient experience. Froedtert Health in Milwaukee is one of those systems.
Recent reports on healthcare-associated infections and hospital performance might give the impression that hospitals have “taken their foot off the gas” on patient safety. “This couldn’t be further from the truth,” the American Hospital Association’s s…