Academic medical centers have a great deal of influence in different areas of healthcare, as they have a three-pronged focus of patient care, medical research and clinician education. This sets them ...

Ochsner Health's Healthy State initiative targets social determinants to improve Louisiana's health outcomes, showing early success in smoking cessation and cancer screening rates. Workforce ...

Tandon researchers found that medical specialists can’t keep up with rapidly growing populations in larger cities, resulting ...

St. Michael Medical Center has become a medical hub on the West Sound. Not only is the Silverdale facility providing care for residents in Kitsap but – as the only hospital on the peninsula offering ...

Strategies such as preventive screenings in the overall population and personalized therapy approaches for patients with cancer have been widely accepted as effective by oncologists. However, these ...

Hospitals across the country face a unique combination of pressures and competition right now. Population health and the proliferation of value-based reimbursement and risk-sharing structures are ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has once again shown that “one-size-fits-all” doesn’t really work in public or population health. (Photo: Getty) The Covid-19 pandemic has once again shown that ...

The Beebe Healthcare hospital in Sussex County, Delaware. A feasibility study says no single health care system in the county — Beebe Healthcare, Bayhealth or TidalHealth — has enough resources on its ...

Next 10 years promises two Dell Medical School hospitals, more specialists advancing care, plus a focus on technology and primary care to prevent disease and make health care more cost effective.

Key points Ontario’s recently passed Bill 33 will require publicly assisted colleges and universities to have clearly outlined, merit-based admission policies.[1][1] Although this sounds reasonable, i ...