On New Year’s Eve, journalist Nadav Eyal tweeted out a scene from a neighborhood in Tel Aviv: Health clinic workers giving COVID-19 vaccinations found themselves left with a few extra doses when a pizza delivery guy went by. “Guy with the pizza, come here,” one of the workers yelled out. He got a vaccine. “That,”… Read More »
Marilyn Bartlett might be the closest thing health policy has to a folk hero. A certified public accountant who barely tops 5 feet, Bartlett bears zero resemblance to Paul Bunyan. But she did take an ax to Montana’s hospital prices in 2016, stopping the state’s employee health plan from bleeding money. “Marilyn is not a… Read More »
Prioritizing teachers in Covid vaccine distribution will continue to be a challenge until more doses are readily available, Andy Slavitt, senior advisor to the White House Covid-19 Response Team, said Wednesday. President Joe Biden has made reopening the nation’s schools for in-person instruction one of his top priorities. On Friday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention… Read More »
Artificial intelligence has the ability to make physicians’ lives easier, according to experts and former clinicians. For example, AI has the ability to make medicine keyboard-free, a futuristic goal which would be welcomed by physicians who spend most of their time with a patient in front of a computer. The technology would require a visual… Read More »