​Summary A recent survey by the Commonwealth Fund debunks the commonly-held belief that Medicaid offers an inferior level of care. According to the survey, Medicaid enrollees report better care experiences than the uninsured and similar experiences as the privately insured; receive preventive services at higher rates than the uninsured; and ha...

Brianna Barker Caza, PhD Associate Professor, Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada M. Teresa Cardador, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor, School of Labor and Employment Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL It is becoming all too common for physicians to report feeling overwhelmed by...

SUMMARY A new five-star quality rating system for clinicians and group practices will become part of the Physician Compare website in late 2017. The purpose of the system is to help patients and others make more informed choices. The ratings will be based on data from the Physician Quality Reporting System in the first year, and, in later years, dr...

Healthcare has been the talking point for generations, but its presence has been even more pronounced since President Obama's election in 2008. Such discussions have revolved around passing comprehensive healthcare reform, passing the Affordable Care Act (ACA or "Obamacare"), repealing the ACA and replacing it with the American Health Care Act of 2...

​Summary The growth of big data, advances in software and hardware, and the development of cloud-based business models are fueling an explosion in the use of machine learning (artificial intelligence), particularly in healthcare. All clinicians, including anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists, are likely to find themselves incorporating ML ...