Our medical care system does not deal well with chronic illnesses; it really concentrates on and is best at treating acute illnesses or trauma – as it has done for the last century and more. But more and more illnesses today are chronic and complex, lasting a patient’s lifetime and bearing very high costs. And […]
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Poorer people have a harder time getting a doctor's appointment in Canada, a new study suggests - even though the country's universal health insurance pays doctors the same amount regardless of the type of patient they see....
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
By Oleg Pavlov, Ph.D. and Vladimir Gotlieb, M.D., M.B.A. Facing offshore competition, local medical schools have been lobbying the state Board of Regents, which supervises all educational activities in New York, for tighter limits on the use of state teaching hospitals for clerkships by offshore medical students. Evidence shows that foreign-trained doctors are competent and […]
Nearly 73 percent of Americans visited a medical provider in 2010, but they went significantly less often than they did 10 years ago. A new report of Census Bureau data (PDF) issued yesterday examined relationships between Americans’ health statuses, insurance coverage, demographic characteristics and use of healthcare services using data from the Survey of Income […]
Our care is generally good in the United States but not as good as it could be nor as good as it should be. There are multiple problems to consider. First, ours is a medical care system not a health care system. We focus on disease once it has occurred but give relatively little attention […]