The world of healthcare has moved from simple, to complicated, to complex, requiring leaders who work together, collaborate, and compromise to solve problems. For many physicians, the problem is that they’ve never received leadership training. Most of their training is around taking individual tests and written or oral exams. These...
The gold standard of medical research, the randomized controlled trial, has been taking a bit of a beating lately. An entire issue of the journal Social Science and Medicine was recently devoted to it, with many articles pointing to shortcomings. Others have argued that randomized controlled trials often can’t address the questions that patients and...
Congrats to SANDY CARTER #23 selected to join Business Insider's list of the 39 most powerful female engineers of 2018. These are women with engineering backgrounds who are running big business units at important companies, are building impressive up-and-coming technologies, or acting as leaders and role models in the tech...
The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2018, The New York Times Company). Research suggests that access to care has greatly improved, and that quality of care has generally improved. The Medicaid logjam appears to be breaking. When the Affordable Care Act first invited states to make more low-income people eligible for Medicaid,...
As millions of consumers and providers add data to patient EHRs, a multitude of data will become available for the greater good. Researchers can anonymize the data and combine it with a large database containing vast amounts of information about the health of the population at a community level, nationally,...