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…
In the opening session of this year's World Health Care Congress in Washington, DC, on May 1, 2017, Robert Pearl, MD, CEO of The Permanente Medical Group and president and CEO of the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group, participated in a…
One of the biggest myths about staying healthy is that more care is better care, Robert Pearl, MD, writes in an April 24 post on the University of Southern California Annenberg Center for Health Journalism website. Dr. Pearl, CEO of…