Physician burnout continues to impact the overall sustainability of the U.S. healthcare system. In this paper, the American Medical Association (AMA) presents key findings from their 2025 national physician well-being survey. Findings include year-over-year national trends across key indicators such…
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Women’s health is too often treated as a narrow benefit category, defined by maternity and annual screenings. The result is a system in which underdiagnosis is the norm, not the exception. For every one woman diagnosed with a serious condition,…
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Filling an open physician role costs more than $500,000. Yet only 39% of healthcare organizations have a formal retention policy and most aren’t using retirement benefits as the differentiator they could be. The problem is that traditional 401(k) plans offer…
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Patient expectations keep climbing while clinical teams absorb a steady load of nonclinical requests, repeated questions and unclear bedside communication. Moving satisfaction scores without adding headcount has become one of the hardest problems in hospital operations. Penn Medicine’s Clifton Center…
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Four in ten U.S. adults have skipped doses, delayed refills, or left a prescription unfilled because of cost, and six in ten now worry about affording their medications. Affordability is usually framed as a patient access issue, but it’s also…
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For years, healthcare has treated physician practice as a binary choice. Become employed by a health system or remain independent. Join private equity or stay private. The debate has shaped countless boardroom discussions and physician recruiting conversations. It has also…
From navigation tools to surgery systems, here are eight orthopedic and spine systems, devices and implants that have received FDA clearance, as reported by Becker’s since April 27:
Orthopedic surgery spends a great deal of time worrying about its future workforce. Will there be enough surgeons? How will programs recruit talent? Can the specialty keep pace with growing patient demand? For Amiethab Aiyer, MD, division chief of foot…
A trial led by the University of Oxford found that resurfacing the kneecap during total knee replacement is likely the most cost-effective approach for patients and healthcare systems, according to a June 18 news release from the university. Here are…
A hybrid surgical approach for treating lumbar spondylolisthesis and multilevel spinal stenosis was associated with a 9.1% reoperation rate in a retrospective case series published June 12 in the Journal of Neurosurgery. The study evaluated 33 patients who underwent a…
