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Dr. Timothy Ihrig, Medical Director of Palliative Care at the Trinity Regional Medical Center within the Unity Point Heath System, offers advice on how to ov...
Health care professionals, patients, and allies across the nation are banding together to promote an understanding of what good medical care can and should be.
Patients sent to rehabilitation facilities to recover from medical crises or surgery too often suffer additional harm from the care they get there, according to research by U.S. health officials.
Computers are occupying more of your physician’s attention as medical practices switch to electronic health records. A new study found patients were less satisfied with the care they received when doctors looked at a screen a lot.
New policy paper sees potential in patient-centered medical home model but urges patience.
Especially in the healthcare community, patients need to establish trust with a medical professional or facility before they place their health in that professional’s hands. In fact, establishing t…
Vanessa Wagster, Support Services Director of Caring Senior Service, discusses the benefits of choosing non-medical home care for a loved one.
Doctors determine if you've reached maximum medical improvement during your treatment following a personal injury, like a car accident. If the doctor determi...
Health care providers should welcome patients’ questions and requests, a nationally known patient advocate and activist on the issue of medical
Understanding systems-level forces is crucial to making health care work for patients. Some medical schools are coming around to the idea.
Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Medical School have developed a new tool that can test patient health literacy using the patient portal.
Vox is running a year-long series on what happens when the health-care system harms patients and how those instances can be reduced — and we want to hear from medical professionals who could speak about it.
Intensive care unit delirium, a fertile area of clinical research and patient care innovation associated with Vanderbilt University Medical Center, is beginning to reshape how commercial electronic health record systems are engineered with regard to intensive care.
All healthcare organizations should have a plan for how they will protect patients’ electronic health information. But for medical practices, many of them without the resources available to large healthcare systems and hospitals, it’s an even bigger challenge.
Patients looking for convenient medical appointments can now see UCLA Health System doctors using their cell phones, computers or tablets. It’s part of an ongoing effort at UCLA and elsewhere to ex…
Non-medical needs related to social determinants of health have a significant impact on the trajectory of patients medical care. Community-based palliative care delivered in the home can help patients address these needs, avoiding costly and unnecessary hospitalizations and emergency department visits, according to a recent paper from Turn Key Health. Social determinants of health include …
A survey finds doctors aren’t spending enough time with patients in the first place. You’re supposed to be able to tell your doctor anything. But how are patients supposed to know what to tell their doctors if the doctors don't ask the necessary questions in the first place? When it comes to sexual health screening, many doctors either missed the class in medical school that was supposed to teach them to ask patients about sexual health questions, or their lack of attention to…