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By MICHAEL MILLENSON A few years ago, I was upgraded to First Class on a flight from California back to Chicago. Not long after I settled in, a tall, muscular man easily four inches taller than me walked up to my aisle seat in the first row and prepared to sit by the window. I envisioned […]
The deal to produce clinical summaries under the Mayo Clinic name for Google searches symbolizes the medical priesthood’s acceptance that information technology has reshaped the doctor-patient relationship. More disruptions are already on the way.
The deal to produce clinical summaries under the Mayo Clinic name for Google searches symbolizes the medical priesthood’s acceptance that information technology has reshaped the doctor-patient relationship. More disruptions are already on the way.
After 15 years of asking consumers around the world about who they trust and why, Edelman CEO Richard Edelman offers advice on boosting trust and why it helps earnings and innovation.
After 15 years of asking consumers around the world about who they trust and why, Edelman CEO Richard Edelman offers advice on boosting trust and why it helps earnings and innovation.
The biotech industry cheered President Obama’s proposed $215 million Precision Medicine Initiative, but the varying results and genetic basis of three DNA-based tests to predict breast cancer recurrence show the gap remaining between branding and real …
The biotech industry cheered President Obama’s proposed $215 million Precision Medicine Initiative, but the varying results and genetic basis of three DNA-based tests to predict breast cancer recurrence show the gap remaining between branding and real …
Joe Kiani, the Iranian-born entrepreneur who built Masimo Corp., is behind a Patient Safety Movement that hopes to use the clout and charisma model of the Clinton Foundation to eliminate preventable medical errors by the year 2020.
Joe Kiani, the Iranian-born entrepreneur who built Masimo Corp., is behind a Patient Safety Movement that hopes to use the clout and charisma model of the Clinton Foundation to eliminate preventable medical errors by the year 2020.
Hospitals have zealously followed the rules that protect doctors and others from being infected by patients with the HIV virus. But many are much more lax about protecting patients from a hospital-caused infection called CLABSI that is deadlier than ma…