Jeff Bendix, Senior Editor

Bob White, COO of The Doctors Company, describes how large malpractice awards affect claims in similar cases.

Bob White, COO of The Doctors Company, says malpractice award amounts have been rising much faster than inflation, which drives up insurance premiums.

Bob White, COO of The Doctors Company, explains what’s behind recent increases in physicians’ malpractice insurance rates.

What services is telehealth best suited for?

The subspecialties with the highest starting salaries, and highest incomes after 10 years, for men and women in adult medical subspecialties.

After 10 years women’s median earnings are 9% less than men’s.

The results are published online in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

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Annual financial cost is more than $1 trillion.

Impacts of the pandemic on patients, physicians, and pharmacists.

Two letters ask that pandemic-era flexibilities become permanent.

There have been 3,705 health care data breaches involving at least 500 records have been reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights, between 2009 and 2020.

Fewer than half of American adults receive vaccinations for influenza and pneumonia.

Findings emphasize importance of care in terms used to describe patients.

Researchers suggest thinking in terms of “pitfalls” would improve process.

First-time visits up sharply, study finds.

Shawn Purifoy, MD, is director of a family medicine clinic in rural Malvern, Ark., population 11,000.

But protection against hospitalization and death remain strong.

Nearly 14 million Americans now covered through ACA marketplace plans.

In Nebraska and Iowa, information on housing, transportation and other non-clinical needs is being exchanged electronically.

More than three decades after law’s passage, myths about people with disabilities and how to treat them persist.

But mask-wearing still vital to slowing spread of disease, agency says.

Nearly 25% of physicians and 40% of nurses say they may leave their jobs due to stress and burnout, study finds,

The prevalence of insulin pump use for Black beneficiaries increased from 3.9% to 4.6% between 2017 and 2019.

Two possible explanations for declining contentment with live video calls as a form of care delivery.

Pandemic’s impact could worsen gender divide in income and career prospects, study finds.

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The process of acquiring personal health data is difficult and time consuming, especially for someone who is already ill.

Medicare spending down due to patients’ COVID-related concerns.

The platform was created to make it easy for ill patients to obtain all their health data.