Primary care physicians spend a significant amount of time on work in their electronic health records, even when they decrease the number of appointments they schedule with patients, according to new ...

Fewer people in the United States can reach hospital-based obstetric care within a reasonable drive than a decade ago, according to a new national study led by the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care ...

Team creativity can be measured in primary care, according to a new study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Primary care teams are essential to high-quality, patient-centered ...

Switching the sound of a hospital beep to a more “musical” one can improve patient care — and avoid “alarm fatigue” Getty The beeping alarms used in hospitals have been “widely criticized” for going ...

A new study challenges the popular claim that medical interventions improve trans-identifying people’s mental health. Rather, the study argues, nonmedical factors like social support and coping style ...

The study found that most survey respondents felt they would recover faster if cared for at home, rather than in the hospital, and that they felt safe being treated at home. Hospital-level care ...

Increased telehealth utilization wasn’t linked to more low-value services at primary care clinics, according to a study published this week in JAMA Network Open. The research found no association ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Medical mistrust continues to be a major issue in the care of patients with multiple myeloma — particularly ...

Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the ...

In the United States, the incarcerated population is aging. About 15% of incarcerated adults, or approximately 175,000 people, are now 55 years or older. As the incarcerated population ages, cancer ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Health care contact days for older adults with metastatic cancer increased by up to 29% from 2008 to 2019.