FRIDAY, May 31, 2019 (HealthDay News) — Reading the notes your doctor makes during your visit appears to be good medicine. An online survey of 20,000 adults treated at three U.S. health systems that have made clinical notes available to patients for several years finds that those who actually read them may be more likely… Read More »
Banner Health, a health system based in Phoenix, Arizona, wanted to focus its resources on the patients who would most benefit from early interventions that would reduce future utilization and improve outcomes. THE PROBLEM The tricky part, of course, was predicting which patients were most likely to need those interventions, and the cost savings the… Read More »
Little Hand ImagesGetty Images Nobody knows how to get under a patient’s skin better than Dr. Pimple Popper. In a new Instagram video published on Saturday afternoon, dermatologist Dr. Sandra Lee, MD—otherwise known as TLC’s Doctor Pimple Popper—extracts a cluster of blackheads from inside of a patient’s ear canal. (And if you happen to be… Read More »