Slideshows

FDA warns physicians, patients about false claims of devices that can lead to inaccurate data about blood glucose.

Where does your state rank?

Employees on the front lines of health care say bias is pervasive, both against patients and themselves

Facts about how we handle illness, and why a trip to the doctor isn’t part of the plan

Areas to focus on health by quitting tobacco usage.

Study provides insights into the trends shaping the health care workforce - how many apply to you?

Study examines factors that create well-being in communities – and some states are lacking.

Gallup poll ranks 23 professions for honesty and ethical standards.

What are the biggest financial challenges facing the health care industry? Mortenson, a builder and developer of health care facilties recently surveyed 100 industry professionals from leading health care provider organizations to find out what keeps them up at night.

Software Advice’s 2023 Physician Compensation Survey examined the prevailing trends in physician salaries, and what it reveals about private practice employment is surprising.

Bipartisan Policy Center issues guidance on best ways to use emerging technology.

It’s not too late to help your patients make 2024 the year of eating for health and wellness.

Study examines factors that create well-being in communities

Unique challenges of rural and underserved areas require special payment consideration by CMS.

Here are six things to watch for more development as technology evolves this year.

The annual hospital employee benefits survey from Aon shows that hospitals are bolstering pay and benefits to combat turnover. Data shows that 62% of hospitals reported increased turnover among nurses, 41% experienced higher departures among non-physician clinical positions and 22% said that physicians are leaving more often than the prior 12 months. Hospitals reported that turnover happens most often among medical professionals with tenures of one to three years. According to the report, here’s what hospitals are doing to try to retain medical professionals:

The American Board of Medical Specialties released its 2022–2023 ABMS Board Certification Report overviewing trends in certification and specialties. Here are the key findings:

Americans pay more, but that could change when Medicare begins negotiating prices.

If you practice here, your patients are getting a bargain.

Here’s the cost of getting into the exam room.

Share these with your patients who want to improve their well-being next year.

Medical-themed presents may be just what the doctor ordered to add holiday cheer.

It's time for some good-natured holiday health care gift-giving and we did some window shopping for you. Take a moment, take a breath, and scroll through 10 potential winners.

Health care is rapidly changing, and will offer options in 2053 that are just science fiction today. The pull stats throughout this slideshow describe what an Prescribe survey found are patient expectations for health care in 2053.

What stands out about the physician tools of 2023 is how many of them are updated versions of old tech. But it’s the new ones ­— the computer, and everything it brought with it ­— that have transformed the profession.

Many of the popular tools of the physicians of the past have gone out of fashion (others haven’t) but they live on as symbols of the doctor.

A survey ranks metro areas by factors important to retirees.

Research findings on how medical practices use social media may come as a surprise to many.

Commonwealth Fund lists 18 states where the largest percentage of the population has medical debt.