My journey through the healthcare system has typically been from the perspective of a home health provider, ensuring smooth transitions for patients after they are discharged from hospitals or skilled ...

Let’s be honest: HealthCare used to be more personal. Your doctor knew your name, maybe even your dog’s name. You’d sit across from them and make real eye contact, they’d put pen to paper, not a ...

Understanding precedes intervention. Patients’ anxiety often grows from personal or familial suffering or loss. Common origins include the following: When patients express fear, especially fear rooted ...

The past 20 years have marked a pivotal shift in how healthcare providers approach care. Scientific progress in genomics and molecular biology has helped expose a fundamental truth: No two people are ...

Panelists discuss how patient perspectives on new therapies center around clinically meaningful outcomes and survival while balancing individual risk tolerance, with some patients willing to accept ...

Health care is about many things — understanding and treating disease, practicing medicine, developing new drugs, inventing new medical devices. But at its core, it is about one thing only: the ...

As a health policy professional who has spent nearly two decades working in health care quality measurement—much of it at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and private payers—I (Ma) ...

The start of the legislative session is just around the corner. Beginning in December, the Missouri Senate allows senators to ...