When a city shuts down roads for major events like a marathon, roads are closed, traffic jams are common, and access to services like hospitals are hampered.
Medicaid provides health insurance coverage to many pregnant women at the time of childbirth, but gaps in coverage after delivery are common, according to a recent study published in Health Affairs.
Frank Levy, HCP visiting faculty, was asked to comment on the advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential to take over entire industries—in this case, legal work.
In October 2016, Nancy Keating and Haiden Huskamp were two of eleven participants invited to participate in the HMS Female Leaders in Science Workshop.
Ateev Mehrotra and coauthors from RAND and CalPERS published a Health Affairs article on direct-to-consumer telehealth, in which a patient directly accesses a medical professional through phone or video.
Each year, the Association of American Physicians recognizes physician scientists who have attained excellence in the pursuit of medical knowledge and the advancement of basic and clinical sciences and their application to clinical medicine through experimentation and discovery.
In a paper published in JAMA Internal Medicine, Anupam Jena, Joseph Newhouse, Alan Zaslavsky and coauthors from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that Medicare patients treated by doctors that ordered more tests and procedures had no better mortality and readmission rates than lower-spending doctors.
Harvard health policy student along with nine other Harvard and MIT economics students have put together a website featuring an interactive map with information on where in the U.S. doctors with training from the seven affected countries from President Trump’s travel ban practice medicine.
