Opinion

The new bill looks to change how healthcare is financed for people who do not have insurance through their employer, and would eliminate the mandate requiring all Americans to carry health insurance.

While the widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) among healthcare providers is here, the dramatic boost in efficiency across the healthcare system that was supposed to accompany this shift has yet to be fully realized.

Earlier this month, federal judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled against the proposed $54 billion merger between Anthem and Cigna, the second- and third-largest commercial health insurers in the country.

Yes, white women voted for Trump in large numbers as well, but, across the country, the Republican leadership primarily relies on the votes of white men. For now, this is the group that is most powerful when it steps up.

For over a decade, we have seen the steady rise of consumerism in healthcare. Far more than an emerging trend, it is now something that will dramatically alter the U.S. healthcare delivery system...for the better.

Waves of predictions about the health IT industry roll in at the end of every year. But how accurate were they in 2016?

Physicians have mixed feelings about Donald Trump’s nominee.

For physicians, this sort of uncertainty is business as usual.

Afraid for the future of primary care

Physicians can violate federal law simply by replying to a negative review

A look at apps that can help physicians in the transition to value-based Medicare reimbursement

A small crack is developing in the long-standing federal prohibition against the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ (HHS) involvement in efforts to improve matching patients with their medical records

Focus on patients not payers

Navigating opportunities & landmines

Physicians can boost revenue by learning how to correctly use procedural codes unveiled in 2017

Team-based care led by doctors are outperforming the competition, but for how long?

The future perhaps?

Small practice physicians need to build a strategy to prepare for success in this growing model of care, expert says.

By expanding healthcare network, MU Health Care assists small practices in making technological care connections.

Experts urge developers to learn from the mistakes of EHRs

What can be done to make the software safer for patients?

How allowing patients to read notes can strengthen the bond for a physician.

Two former CMS administrators discussed the future of healthcare reform as well as the agency they once oversaw at HIMSS17.

All-oral sofosbuvir-based therapy proves a significant advance for hepatitis C virus patients.

Researchers say theirs is first national study with a large population to examine possible link.

Patients are torn between whether they want their physicians to use technology or not.

The statistics are clear: Physicians are burned out, miserable and trying to get out of the clinical practice of medicine, and women physicians are leading the pack at twice the level of burnout as their male colleagues.

Researchers find callers to a national health center were most concerned about the safety and components of vaccines based largely on old information.

Study provides new insight on isolating and suppressing immune cells that could play a vital role in inhibiting other immunotherapy efforts against cancer.

What the proposed changes mean to physicians.