Hospitals have had success applying remote patient monitoring to chronic conditions to help track signs of a patient’s improving or worsening condition between medical appointments. Patients with ...

In many institutions, when a patient is scheduled for surgery, the patient is contacted before the procedure and given instructions as to how to prepare for the surgery. This may be done by staff from ...

Some patients pay out of pocket for colonoscopy prep, according to a recent study, and many leaders are concerned about how that could affect screening volumes. Gastroenterologist Eric Shah, MD, at ...

The term for a patient who lists their questions was likely coined in the late 19th century in the clinic of Jean-Martin Charcot at the Salpêtrière. Known as la maladie du petit papier, or the illness ...

Open bottle of prescription PrEP Pills for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis to help protect people from HIV. Intervention links at-risk patients from sexually transmitted infection screening to HIV PrEP ...

Mauston, Wisconsin-based Mile Bluff Medical Center clinicians faced numerous challenges due to the overwhelming amount of data they encountered daily. This data, found in various formats, including ...

Taking HIV prevention medication (pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP for short) is an intensely personal decision, and it might feel difficult to talk to your healthcare provider about it. You may feel ...

A recent survey finds that health systems see patient self-scheduling tools as vital, but they aren't using them because clinicians aren't buying into the strategy. The transition to consumer-centered ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For some time now, we have been discussing COVID-19 as two epidemics. One is the tragic and unnecessary epidemic ...

William Short, MD, MPH, AAHIVS: So for PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, I think what we’re really looking at is anyone that considers himself to be at risk for HIV acquisition. You know the CDC ...