hospitals

Health Tech By Rebecca Robbins

FDA issues rare emergency authorization for an algorithm used to inform Covid-19 care

Health Tech By Erin Brodwin

With ‘nutrition labels’ and an anthropologist’s eye, Duke pioneers a new approach to AI in medicine

First Opinion By Panagis Galiatsatos and Erica Johnson

Medicine for the Greater Good: one hospital’s way of supporting its nearby communities of color

Health By Andrew Zaleski

As hospitals look to prevent infections, a chorus of researchers make a case for copper surfaces

Health Tech By Rebecca Robbins

Federal judge dismisses lawsuit over patient data sharing by Google and the University of Chicago

Health By Pratibha Gopalakrishna

How common is burnout among physicians? It depends on how it’s defined

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Drug and device makers paid teaching hospitals $832 million in 2018, creating potential for conflicts of interest

First Opinion By Jeffrey S. Flier

Hospital CEOs, med school leaders shouldn’t sit on for-profit health care company boards

First Opinion By Leah Binder

Infections acquired in health facilities are a big problem. National reporting can help fix it

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Drug makers seek to curtail discounts paid to hospitals as part of a controversial federal program

First Opinion By Hayley B. Gershengorn

ICU capacity is more about the clinicians than the number of beds

Health By Juliet Isselbacher

Nearly half of low-income communities have no ICU beds in their area

Health Tech By Rebecca Robbins

Hospitals deploy AI to send patients home earlier — and keep them there

Special Report By Rebecca Robbins and Erin Brodwin

An invisible hand: Patients aren’t being told about the AI systems advising their care

Health By Alexander Spinelli

How should hospitals respond to bias from patients? Experts offer a playbook

First Opinion By Jennifer Canvasser, Kurlen Payton, and Elizabeth Rogers

In the NICU, both parents are essential and need to be at their child’s bedside

Health By Eric Boodman

From Houston to Miami, hospitals running short of remdesivir for Covid-19 patients

Hospitals By Sharon Begley

In a new hospital ranking, doing good counts nearly as much as doing well

First Opinion By Michael L. Millenson

Hospitals must treat infection control as a priority, not a profit center

Health Tech By Rebecca Robbins

An experiment in end-of-life care: Tapping AI’s cold calculus to nudge the most human of conversations

First Opinion By Peter Pronovost

To make progress against Covid-19, processes must serve people, not a ‘labyrinth of bureaucratic rules’

On the Front Lines By Eric Boodman

In the Covid-19 death of a hospital food worker, a microcosm of the pandemic

Health By Elizabeth Cooney

Ignoring cancer care now may trade one public health crisis — Covid-19 — for another, NCI chief warns

Health By Elizabeth Cooney

‘We have a job to do’: Cancer patients and their doctors carry on with clinical trials during Covid-19

Health By Ruth Hailu

A reckoning for health care professionals: Should they be activists, too?