During a busy shift in the emergency department not long ago, I tried something new: I walked out of the double doors and into the waiting room. For a physician, the waiting room is an uncomfortable ...

Missed appointments remain one of the most persistent (and costly) challenges in patient engagement. Even as healthcare organizations use more appointment reminders, online scheduling and other ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A “Patient’s Rights and Responsibilities” document can establish expectations. Reasons for termination may ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Development of rheumatoid arthritis, or another such inflammatory disease, often brings with it a mental toll.

April 19 (Reuters) - Many cancer patients who'd had problems with their treatment never said anything to the doctor they thought was responsible - and almost none formally reported the problems to the ...

Are Cost-of-Care Conversations Best Practice? A Qualitative Study of Oncologists' Attitudes and Practice Fiscal distress or “financial toxicity,” in which patients experience challenges in paying for ...

Between July 27, 2016, and July 27, 2020, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) received a total of 107,728 medical device reports (MDRs) related to implanted spinal cord stimulators (SCSs), ...

Experts discuss how health care organizations can address the "missing patient" problem in our health system. This is the second article in a series on value-based care and the four challenges health ...

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, patient collections were already crucial for the financial health of hospitals and health systems due to their proportion of total collections. But volume reduction from ...