April 18, 2024 - Even in the best-performing states, racial health disparities have left their mark, with new reporting from the Commonwealth Fund showing serious differences in life expectancy and preventable deaths between races/ethnicities. Overall, Black and American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) people in the United States are more likely to die from...

April 16, 2024 - Clinician empathy could be a key pain reliever for patients experiencing chronic pain, with a recent study in JAMA Network Open outlining how greater perceptions of empathy from their physicians were linked to lower reported pain levels. To be clear, empathy doesn’t have the same physiological effects as taking ibuprofen or other pain...

April 16, 2024 - The Light Collective, a patient advocacy organization focused on promoting the patient voice in the health IT space, wants to make sure the industry centers the patient in its frenzy for adopting AI standards. In response to the insurgence of AI, healthcare and technology leaders have formed multiple initiatives to write out AI codes of conduct....

April 15, 2024 - If you’re a clinician with your inbox open for patient portal secure messaging, you need to make sure you have a good inbox management strategy in place. Coming up against strong patient demand for secure direct messaging and unabating levels of administrative burden and provider burnout, healthcare practitioners need to consider the...