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Opinion: To improve safety, hospitals should make ‘radical transparency’ real — and accessible

20.05.2022

Covid-19 may be receding, but it’s leaving a quiet menace lurking in hospitals in its wake. In a Perspective essay in The New England Journal of Medicine, four senior physicians …

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Opinion: Turn off the spigot for hospitals’ Covid-19 relief funding

13.05.2022

Hospitals are calling on Congress for more Covid-19 relief even though they had higher profit margins during the pandemic than before it. Congress would be wise to reject these pleas. …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Listen: Get sick, go to the doctor, incur debt, repeat

11.05.2022

Sickness can beget debt, which can then turn around and beget more sickness. That’s the all-too-unfortunate cycle for people across the country who find themselves with overwhelming medical debt, the …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Beyond awareness: The medical system needs to deeply reform its care of people with autism

01.05.2022

I walked into the hospital room of a patient I had been assigned that morning. Noah, an adorable boy with dark, coiled hair, had severe autism. His mom was sitting …

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Health Tech

AI can predict missed appointments. How can hospitals use that data for better care?

28.04.2022

For every five appointments at Boston Children’s Hospital, one patient doesn’t show up. Missed appointments are a common problem at health systems. And they’re a particularly attractive target for machine …

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First Opinion

Opinion: How hospitals and health systems can help patients avoid medical debt

26.04.2022

While the goal of the American health care system is to improve health and well-being, it triggers financial hardship for many people. One in five U.S. households have incurred medical …

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Health Tech

At small and rural hospitals, ransomware attacks are causing unprecedented crises

11.04.2022

At 12:08 p.m. on a Monday, a Sky Lakes Medical Center employee tapped an email link. Within minutes, that click cracked open the Oregon hospital’s digital infrastructure for cybercriminals to …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Private equity, health care, and profits: It’s time to protect patients

24.03.2022

In his State of the Union address, President Biden expressed concern with the growing — and troubling — trend of private equity ownership and operation of nursing homes and the …

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First Opinion

Opinion: The Breen bill to protect health providers is well-intentioned. But it won’t stop burnout

21.03.2022

Both the Senate and the House of Representatives passed a bill to “improve the mental and behavioral health among health care providers” that President Biden signed on Friday. As an …

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