Is bigger always better?
July 3, 2020
You’ve read some of our coverage regarding consolidation of health care delivery systems. It started locally, but has grown nationally. A recent piece in the
You’ve read some of our coverage regarding consolidation of health care delivery systems. It started locally, but has grown nationally. A recent piece in the
Your primary care provider, be it an MD, DO, PA-C, or ARNP, is probably glad to see you for a preventative care visit. Annual physicals
You have probably seen recent news coverage about off-label uses of anti-malarial drugs to treat or prevent coronavirus. Setting aside the extreme scenario we find
This pandemic is providing routes for machine learning (artificial intelligence) to expand its presence in emergency medicine, radiology, and critical care. You may have read
A couple of recent pieces caught my eye about the puzzling drop in non-COVID conditions being treated at hospitals around the country. Heart attacks, strokes,
We have all had to make substantial changes to our daily lives due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We have had to replace personal meetings with
Consolidation is not new to health care. The most obvious example is of a hospital buying small clinics to expand its footprint. Those campaigns are
Washington law requires that health care providers maintain a license to practice medicine. So does every other state. This means the state reviews applications and
You may have read our previous coverage regarding the aspergillus infections acquired at Seattle Children’s Hospital. You may have also seen Tyler Goldberg-Hoss’s interviews related
Pharmacists at large chains are complaining of understaffed and chaotic workplaces. They are being squeezed between difficult to meet performance metrics and safely doing their