Category: Opinions

January 23, 2020

The severity of the rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak in China that’s claimed more than a dozen lives is still unknown, and the extent of its spread will only be clearer after the Lunar New Year holidays, said David Roche of […]

January 17, 2020

Charlie Blakey had a sense he was sleeping poorly since he often would wake up tired and hear from his wife how loudly he breathed during the night. So he jumped at the chance when his employer, Southern Co., an […]

January 13, 2020

As the decade turned and the 2020s began, news headlines made it seem as though the healthcare revolution was already underway. One banner boasted “2020: Another Year of Radical Change in Healthcare,” mirroring similar stories claiming that innovations and technologies […]

January 13, 2020

A survey conducted by The Harris Poll has uncovered key gaps in American’s knowledge of eye health, and what they don’t know is putting them at risk of vision loss. With the number of people affected by potentially blinding eye […]

January 9, 2020

Medication prices in the US have gone from wild to insane; from expensive to outright unaffordable. But a tripling in prices could save us all a lot of money. Here’s how that would work. It’s a policy known as external […]

January 9, 2020

Walgreens Boots Alliance sees the physician inside or attached to its drugstores as key to the company’s long-term survival as a community healthcare provider. Though two partnerships Walgreens has to strengthen the drugstore chain’s relationships with physicians remain in testing […]

January 8, 2020

Much is made of the cost of drugs in the U. S., a topic that is in the crosshairs of both political parties. Particularly galling for Americans is that drugs are cheaper around the world than they are here. As […]

December 30, 2019

Amazon is quietly talking to health insurance companies about new ways to integrate its online pharmacy services into their medical plans and employer health benefits. The online retail giant, working under the PillPack by Amazon pharmacy brand rolled out in […]

December 20, 2019

New research suggests that AI may already be offering – or at least seems well-positioned to offer—help with reducing physician burnout levels in addition to freeing up some of their time.­ The survey, which reached out to more than 900 […]

December 19, 2019

Based on what side of the political aisle you’re sitting, it’s likely you think Wednesday’s impeachment of President Trump was the worst thing ever to happen to any White House, or one of the most massive election liabilities for the […]

December 16, 2019

With a combined market cap of more than $2 trillion, technology giants Google and Apple are placing big bets on disrupting the $3.6 trillion healthcare industry. Earlier in the year, Apple CEO Tim Cook repeated a claim that “there will […]

December 13, 2019

Babies born to mothers who used opioids during pregnancy represent one of the most distressing legacies of an opioid epidemic that has claimed almost 400,000 lives and ravaged communities. In fact, many of the ongoing lawsuits filed against drug companies […]

December 13, 2019

Stay in school, kids. Except, of course, when there is projectile vomiting. And over 100 people are sick. And there is a norovirus outbreak. In such a situation, stay away from school, kids. Today, Leschi Elementary School in Seattle, Washington, […]

December 12, 2019

It was a promise Matt Perrin wasn’t able to keep. “I’ll never take away your independence,” he’d told his mother, Rosemary, then 71, who lived alone on Cape Cod, Mass., in a much-loved cottage. That was before Rosemary started calling […]

December 6, 2019

Since 2009, federal legislation has awarded billions of dollars to physicians and hospitals that make health information technology part of their practice. While many highlighted the downsides of digitization, the providers who unlock its full potential know very well that […]