“Siri, am I getting sick?” is a question many may be ask their technological assistants. These interfaces—including Amazon Echo, Google Home and Siri—could one day be capable of being users' own at-home doctor.

Less than a week after leaving her old post as HHS Secretary, Sylvia Burwell has found a new job: president of American University.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a CMS rule on requiring dialysis companies to disclose all charitable premium assistance they provide to patients. 

Basing physician compensation on a pay-for-performance model “simply doesn’t work,” according to a Vox article written by Harvard Medical School population health professor Stephen Soumerai, ScD, and University of Pennsylvania health IT researcher Ross Koppel, PhD.

When it comes to repealing all of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), primary care physicians are even less supportive of the idea than their patients, according to a new survey published in the New England Journal of Medicine. 

The Board of Trustees of Partners HealthCare voted Tuesday to name David J. Roberts, M.D., as the next president of North Shore Medical Center (NSMC)

The rates of opioid related deaths increasing 200 percent since 2000. In order to gauge exactly how bad the epidemic has become, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released findings in opioid-related statistics by state.

Keeping patients engaged in their own care is easier said than done. Once a patient leaves the doctor’s office, the physician has no way of knowing how committed a patient is until the next appointment. With the integration of patient engagement technology, physicians are giving patients an opportunity to improve care.