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Going to so-called safety-net clinics could mean being subject to different standards of care than those in other health care delivery settings. Learners who understand social determinants of health might be able to help patients navigate the system and access community resources.

What's known as the chilling effect means immigrants are not using health services to which they are entitled. Clinicians and students can act to help safeguard immigrants’ rights.

Patients’ immigration concerns can be addressed when clinicians adopt a public health approach to caring: wearing buttons, distributing brochures, inviting experience sharing, and directing patients to needed resources.

Artificial Intelligence reduces administrative tasks, helps with a first triage, allows for remote monitoring, and much more. Family practice needs it. It’s time!

Stanford Children’s Health and NYU Langone Health have both automated communications and workflows with the aim to improve patient treatment and outcomes.

From entertainment to early warnings, smartphones, tablets and mobile computers improve communication and care at healthcare organizations.

Artificial intelligence can lead to the automation of important but highly inefficient tasks that comprise the healthcare revenue cycle.

People with behavioral health conditions — that is, mental illness and/or substance use disorder — often experience poor health overall. They are less likely to receive preventive care, have higher rates of major chronic illnesses, and often experience a lower quality of care for their physical health needs. Those with a diagnosis of serious mental […]

Technological advances threaten to make a crushingly unequal system even more so.

Presenting all, including expensive, options to all patients means advocating not only for individual patients, but also for a just health care system.

A so-called neural network analyzed the medical records of 600,000 hospital patients in China, diagnosing their conditions as accurately as doctors did in some cases.

Primary care should not be something people buy at the drugstore or find online but rather a trusted source in both sickness and wellness.

A doctor has developed an advance directive specifically to plan for medical care in the event of dementia.

Although undocumented immigrants contribute to the pool of available organs and to the US tax base, they are not eligible for organ transplantation in most US states.

Machine-learning systems could be a boon to medicine. But they also can be hacked to mislead, researchers are discovering.

On Sunday, the Grammy-nominated rapper was shot and killed outside Marathon Clothing, a clothing store he owned in Los Angeles. He was 33.

The California senator received 218,000 contributions, and 98 percent were under $100.

The rapper remained a regular presence at the strip mall that houses the clothing store he owned in South Los Angeles.

A video-game developer decided to confront his son’s devastating illness using the medium he knows best.

A doctor with metastatic lung cancer confronts his own transition to full-time patient.

When we knew for certain that Jane was about to die, she told me the whereabouts of her unpublished poems.

If any business needs a dose of creativity, it’s health care. A systematic assessment of the industry’s innovation ills suggests some remedies and offers a framework for thinking about the obstacles to new ventures in any business.

Make your case, and then be patient.

Landing a promotion often requires great skill in how you prepare, plan and ask for it. Take these key steps to make your ask as strong as possible.

Our three-part Reigniting the Growth Engine series walks through ten strategies to guide hospital and health system leaders on the road to effective long-term revenue growth.

Nonprofit and public hospitals last year showed signs of stable profitability—with revenue growth outpacing expense growth for the first time since fiscal year 2015, according to a preliminary analysis released Thursday by Moody's Investors Service.

I recently published some cost comparisons between the Tesla Model 3 and various Honda Accord trims. As I implied at the time, these models shouldn't even be in the same discussion since the Model 3 is a much better vehicle (safer, quicker, more advanced tech, better handling), but the fact is that they do compare when it comes to 5 year cost of ownership. However, when I published the previous comparisons, I didn't include the cost of interest if you took out an auto loan to finance the purchase

Shedding its past, this forward-looking city has impressive (and free) museums, cool cafes and a cable system to whisk you up the hillsides.

In the Colombian capital: a gallery scene that celebrates local artists, a rapidly evolving food and bar culture, and much else to explore.

Employees who fake positive emotions such as smiling to customers are more likely to drink heavily after work, said a recent study.