Agile implementation process. Credit: BMC basic care (2024). DOI: 10.1186/s12875-024-02500-7 Between 2015 and 2019, excessive alcohol consumption resulted in over 140,000 deaths and a potential loss of 3.6 million years of life each year in the United States, making it the fourth leading preventable cause of death in the country. Despite these horrifying numbers, only […]

Image credit: CC0 Public Domain The possible sale of Palmetto General, North Shore Medical Center and other Florida hospitals has been postponed. Steward Health Care System has again pushed back the deadline and sale hearings for all of its hospitals in Florida, including in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. The move could give the healthcare giant […]

Image credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study of patient electronic health records found that doctors are more likely to use negative language when describing visits to black and Hispanic patients than to white patients, which researchers say could lead to bias and unequal treatment of patients. The study entitled “Investigating linguistic differences in electronic […]

Image credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Faced with an extremely competitive market in one of the fastest-growing cities in the country, UF Health is trying to attract patients in a new way: with a combination emergency department and urgent care center. Over the past year and a half, UF Health and Intuitive Health, a private equity-backed […]