Lawmakers and hospitals are divided on providing free care for tax breaks
Nonprofit hospitals in the U.S. provided $16 billion in charity care in 2020, according to health...
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Walmart to close 51 in-store health clinics, shut down telehealth service
Walmart will shut down scores of health centers as well as its telehealth business due to the...
Read MoreAlmost half of patients ‘rarely or never see the same GP’
Almost half of patients hardly ever or never see the same GP, a poll has found. The survey of […] – Click here to read the full story from www.telegraph.co.uk
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Women are less likely to die when treated by female doctors, study suggests
In a study of people ages 65 and older, 8.15% of women treated by female physicians died within 30...
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UnitedHealth paid ransom in Change Healthcare cyberattack, says patient data was compromised
UnitedHealth Group on Monday said it paid ransom to cyberthreat actors to try to protect patient...
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Will the Change Healthcare case finally make providers do a business impact analysis?
In the wake of UnitedHealth’s admission that the Change Healthcare attack will cost it $1.6...
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Continued Medicare reimbursement declines could threaten access to physicians
by Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute Percentage change in total Medicare physician fee...
Read MoreAI enhances physician-patient communication
As one of the first health systems in the country to pilot the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) […] – Click here to read the full story from www.sciencedaily.com
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Doctors underutilize next-gen antibiotics to fight resistant infections in U.S. hospitals
NIH scientists find clinicians still rely often on older and toxic medicines. Scanning electron...
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AI beats doctors in accurately assessing eye problems
Thirunavukarasu found that the AI model GPT-4 significantly exceeds the ability of non-specialist...
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