Healthcare workers can’t retire | Doctors disfavor Medicare for All | All eyes on for-profit nursing homes

Almost half of individuals employed in healthcare expect to keep their noses to the grindstone into their late 60s if not beyond. 

U.S. physicians favor the idea of a two-tiered healthcare system, one in which a single-payer option peacefully coexists with private coverage. Their least favorite model? Single-payer Medicare for All.

Even after receiving $7.5 billion in federal COVID relief and billions more from the Paycheck Protection Program, nursing homes are still hurting financially. Should the field’s for-profit players have their hands out with the rest?

Several large hospital systems in Southern California appear to have been dodging their duties to uninsured COVID patients.

The largest pharmacy chain in the U.S. is staffing up for fall and winter. It’s also calling for regulation that would allow pharmacy technicians to administer vaccinations in all states.  

With their broad reach across all demographic categories, social media platforms are connecting healthcare influencers and stakeholders across every area of activity in which one might hold a stake. Of course, that’s a good thing and a bad thing.

The analysis focused on more than 241,000 patients with diabetes.

The quality issue could force more than 12,000 patients into canceled exams.

Twelve-hospital St. Luke’s University Health Network plans to implement the Chicago-based company’s US and IT workflow solutions across its entire system. 

Analyzing the scientific literature on medical AI published over the past 46 years, researchers in the U.K. have found the U.S. far ahead of the field for sheer quantity.