3 Big Changes Coming To American Medicine
U.S. healthcare costs are rising rapidly while American life expectancy has remained stagnant for two decades. Businesses are facing greater economic pressures and looking for ways to flatten the [...]
Poll: You down with GPT?
ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot from OpenAI, is taking the digital world by storm. This month’s reader survey asks about your experiences with the app and your predictions for its [...]
Poll results: Trying to control the ‘tripledemic’
During the holiday season, a trio of viral infections (influenza, Covid-19, RSV) began straining hospitals as cases spiked. With the elderly and young children at greatest risk, last month’s [...]
Poll: Giving the gift of good health
The holiday season came and went. And while thoughts of good will were still dancing in our heads, I asked readers about their healthcare hopes for the future. Here are the results: My thoughts: [...]
POLL: Predicting healthcare policy post-midterms
The midterm ballots had been cast but the results weren’t yet conclusive (as of 11/15/2022 when our most recent poll went live). Amid the uncertainty, last month’s survey sought [...]
Lessons on leadership from hip and knee surgeons
This past weekend, I had the privilege of keynoting the annual meeting of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS) in Dallas. Established in 1991, the AAHKS is the leading [...]
Lessons on lifestyle medicine and physician burnout
I was honored to join the annual Lifestyle Medicine Summit (Oct. 21-30, 2022), a 10-day event that brings together experts in public health, wellness coaching, lifestyle improvement and [...]
Poll: Too old for medicine? Too old for politics?
My latest guest on the Fixing Healthcare podcast was Dr. Zeke Emanuel. Years ago, Zeke wrote a controversial essay for The Atlantic titled “Why I Hope to Die at 75,” citing the physical and [...]
Who has the power to end clinician burnout?
Yesterday marked the third annual Ending Clinician Burnout (ECB) Global Summit, a fantastic online event with a virtuous mission “to bring an end to burnout in healthcare.” For hundreds of [...]
Poll: Addressing healthcare’s biggest threats
In a recent Forbes article series, I described three mega forces soon to hit American medicine (i.e., healthcare inflation, nurse shortage, physician burnout). Like the perfect storm, these [...]
3 Reasons Healthcare Innovations Fail: Lessons From The InnovatorMD World Congress
Funding for digital health startups in the United States hit $38 billion in 2021, up 75% from the year before. With billions and billions of dollars being pumped into hundreds of entrepreneurial [...]
Poll: The new climate, tax & health bill
The congressional package contains significant federal investments in alternative energy and an expanded role for the federal government relative to both healthcare coverage and drug pricing. [...]
