An online U.S. News and World Report story published yesterday focused on the transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, procedure as a growing alternative to open-heart surgery. The story quotes a few expert physicians from around the country, including Edward…
U.S. News & World Report published a story today that looked at whether music can be a therapeutic benefit to people with multiple sclerosis and quoted several research studies and two physician experts, including Jacqueline Marcus, MD, a physician with…
Richard Isaacs, MD, FACS, co-CEO of The Permanente Federation, is featured in a July 1, 2017 Business Insider article: “There's a condition that affects one in 5 Americans, and the way it's treated sums up how quickly healthcare costs can…
Are this country’s medical schools teaching physicians compassion and how to interact with patients? That’s the focus of a recent Modern Healthcare article, “Medical schools aim to make curricula mirror the real world,” which quotes Edward Ellison, MD, executive medical…
In a recent San Francisco Chronicle article about the pros and cons of electronic health records (EHRs), Patricia Conolly, MD, chief information officer and executive vice president of Information Technology at The Permanente Federation, gave an example of how Kaiser…
With the rise of life expectancy for HIV patients comes complications of aging-related diseases, such as cardiovascular conditions. Michael Horberg, MD, Kaiser Permanente’s national director for HIV/AIDS, was quoted in a recent Baltimore Sun article about his hopes for a…
Following the recent release of his book, Mistreated: Why We Think We're Getting Good Health Care — and Why We're Usually Wrong, Robert Pearl, MD, has been on a media tour expressing concern for key issues in American health care,…
David C. Grossman, MD, MPH, a senior investigator at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, has been appointed as chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Dr. Grossman also is a pediatrician at Kaiser Permanente Washington and a senior medical director…
Echocardiographers are among the specialists considering how care pathways can help provide increased quality and efficiency in the evolution toward value-based care, according to an April 28 Cardiovascular Business Magazine article, “Pathways for Quality Care: Echocardiographers Ponder a Playbook for…