Patient engagement and shared decision-making has been shown to improve patient understanding of their own healthcare, yet so few healthcare organizations have implemented a type of decision aids. Now, a Pennsylvania woman is proposing the idea of serving as a concierge liaison for Lancaster General Health/Penn Medicine.

Tenet Healthcare and HCA Holdings, two of the largest hospital operators in the U.S., announced surprisingly strong profits and increases in hospital admissions for the first quarter of 2016.

The former president of the North American operations for the Starbucks Coffee Company, John Richards, has moved into the healthcare space as the CEO of The Joint Corp.

Imaging company Health Images and the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO), both based out of Denver, have announced that Health Images will now be sending radiology results performed at its 12 locations into the CORHIO health information exchange (HIE). 

A study published by the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management has conducted the first empirically based clinical model of compassion based on the analysis of the Straussian theory when applied to advanced cancer patients.

InformationWeek, an online magazine examining technology in the business world, included 17 healthcare companies in its Elite 100.

A recent op-ed from the Journal of the American Medical Association examines the healthcare industry’s progress in patient safety since a groundbreaking report from 2001.

Humans have won, at least temporarily, the latest battle in man versus machine. Johnson & Johnson ceased selling its anesthesiology robot.