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Despite the evolving business model of medicine, physicians must demand abundant time to educate, counsel, and share decisions with patients. The constellation of abundant time, true partnership, and sharing in decisions is the panacea to preventing ...

Primary care physicians are the vanguard to the evaluation of work ability and return-to-work decisions.

October 7, 2020

Health information technology provides critical life-saving functions and consists of connected, networked systems that leverages wireless technologies, which in turn leave such systems more vulnerable to cyber-attacks.

This article presents an analytical review of court decisions in six states and the federal courts to illustrate the techniques used in ascertaining personal goodwill.

In early May 2020, Cassatly Leadership Coaching interviewed 27 healthcare leaders to learn about the impacts of COVID-19 on their organizations, their insights based on recent experience, and their vision for future leadership during uncertain times ...

As the prevalence of diabetes continues to increase, it becomes even more important to focus on increasing adherence rates in patients with diabetes to reduce the incidence of comorbid conditions and ease the burden on the healthcare system.

The complexities facing higher education today call for the employment of varied managerial and leadership strategies in handling healthcare program operations.

July 24, 2020

The new coronavirus doesn’t discriminate. But physicians in public health and on the front lines say they already can see the emergence of familiar patterns of racial and economic bias in the response to the pandemic.

July 17, 2020

Like many health systems, Geisinger, based in Danville, Pennsylvania, cares for a large population of older patients with complex needs. Many of these vulnerable patients are homebound and struggle with food insecurity, social isolation, lack of tran...

July 16, 2020

But the COVID-19 pandemic has done what no president or social movement or venture capitalist could have dreamed of: It forced sudden major changes to the nation’s health care system that are unlikely to be reversed.

July 14, 2020

Bringing Leadership to Life in Health (2nd Ed) draws on the need to enhance the art of leadership in healthcare, centred around three core functions: i.e., to integrate care across organizational silos; facilitate the creation of psychologically heal...

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