Health Technology Archives

The Push to End Cancer Screening Purgatory

Initial screenings for breast, lung and cervical cancer are free, but expensive secondary tests can leave patients in screening purgatory.

Ishani Ganguli shares new research that explores the history of scheduling doctors visits.

We explore cascades of care — how a clinician’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.

Ishani Ganguli shares new research about a care intervention that didn’t work and why it still matters.

Ateev Mehrotra explains why a trio of studies on overprescribing antiobiotics has him excited about telemedicine data.

Michael Barnett shares research on why female physicians spend more time working in the electronic health record than their male counterparts.

We explore cascades of care — how a clinician’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.

Ishani Ganguli on new research showing Black patients have much higher odds of having clinicians write negative descriptors about them.

A spike in ransomware attacks is pushing the health care industry to beef up its digital defenses.

Kosali Simon on research showing how digital tools shrunk the number of unnecessary amputations among Black diabetics.