The American Medical Association passed a resolution during its 2018 Annual Meeting, which took place June 9-13 in Chicago, to commission a study examining how venture capitalists' and private equity firms' investment in physician practices affects the healthcare industry.
Integration & Physician Issues
To improve access to care and relieve clinician burden, healthcare is beginning to explore conversational artificial intelligence (AI) to automate certain interactions with patients. But where quality of care is imperative, what is the proper use of conversational AI (such…
Los Angeles police on June 14 raided the home of George Tyndall, MD, a former University of Southern California gynecologist accused of sexually mistreating patients, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Aaron E. Carroll, MD, associate dean for research mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis and a New York Times contributor, wrote in a recent op-ed the National Institutes of Health's medical research grant system needs to…
Windell Davis-Boutte, MD, dubbed the "dancing doctor," filed an objection June 14 to the Georgia Composite Medical Board's decision earlier this month to suspend her medical license, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
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A spokesperson for El Camino Hospital Los Gatos in California confirmed the removal of a physician from the hospital's work schedule last week after a cellphone video posted on social media reportedly showed the woman mocking a 20-year-old emergency room…
An emailed memo from Walter O'Donnell, MD, a longtime physician at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital, brings to light the tension between some physicians at the hospital and its parent company, Boston-based Partners Healthcare, according to the Boston Globe.
The organic produce grown at the Allegheny Mountain Institute Farm at Fishersville, Va.-based Augusta Health not only provides patients and community residents with healthy options—it’s essential for immunocompromised patients, according to the News-Leader.
Bullying in healthcare is happening far more frequently than what is seen through the public eye — and for physicians, and medical students in particular, these behaviors can harm mental well-being, physical health and patient care, Mikkael Sekeres, MD, a…
Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital officials plan to remove 31 gold-framed portraits of some of the hospital's department chairs — most of whom were white — June 14 as part of the institution's initiative to ramp up its diversity efforts,…