Irrespective of where a patient resides, having easier primary care access might be key to improving chronic disease management and detection for patients with hypertension, according to new research...
Two studies published in the September 2022 issue of Health Affairs give credence to the expanded scope of practice for advanced practice providers, like nurse practitioners and physician assistants,...
Veterans seeking medical care through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) have experienced long and disparate patient appointment wait times across various healthcare settings, even after...
Yelp will be posting new consumer-facing notifications on its business pages meant to quell medical misinformation or misleading medical information about crisis pregnancy centers and abortion access,...
With an aging senior population, the US medical industry is increasingly focused on home healthcare as a means to not only cut costs but also improve the patient experience.
Medicare defines home healthcare as, “a wide range of...
It’s easy for a patient to become overwhelmed visiting the clinic or hospital. Even the patient intake process is rife with chaos and complexity, asking patients to manage a litany of forms and permissions that can, at best, be a lot...
The University of Tennessee’s College of Nursing was recently awarded a $3.7 million grant by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to fund a project which aims to boost...
The United States overdose epidemic continues to worsen, but most patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) lack potentially life-saving medication access, according to new findings published in the...
Inflation is creating healthcare affordability problems, with more people of color than White folks saying the rising cost of healthcare is limiting patient care access, according to recent polling...
For many Houston adults, high out-of-pocket healthcare costs have deterred them from accessing care, according to new survey data collected by Sesame via Pollfish.
The nation's fourth-largest city...
Doctor’s offices have about four chances to meet patient experience expectations before a healthcare consumer picks a new provider to visit, with around three-quarters of patients mentally...
Patient access to care is worse for American men than it is for men in any other similarly developed nation, a trend researchers from the Commonwealth Fund attributed to poorer public health and high...
As more states consider expanding nurse practitioners (NP) scope of practice, a recent poll conducted by Morning Consult on behalf of CVS Health found that most patients want broader NP authority so...
The shadows of historic racist policies such as redlining continue to impact present-day health outcomes, leaving Black people to bear the burden of health inequities, according to a recent analysis by...
The rising cost of healthcare and increases in patient financial responsibility continue to be a burden for older adults, with between a quarter and a third of folks over age 50 saying they need to go...
Disproportionate geographic barriers to cancer care access beleaguer Native Americans, a study led by Washington State University researchers has found.
The study, published in the journal Value...
New research conducted by Cedars-Sinai shows disparities in access to cancer care for racial and ethnic minorities diagnosed with advanced liver cancer, as they did not receive early access to the...
Women, as well as Black and Hispanic populations, have faced longstanding health disparities in patient access to opioid treatments like buprenorphine, a Mayo Clinic study published in JAMA Network...
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a significant decrease in preventive care access, with the impact on cancer screening being especially notable as millions of patients missed their care, according to a...
It’s going to take more than the federal healthcare price transparency tool to revamp the patient financial experience, as patients continue to avoid care because of healthcare affordability...
