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Healthcare Doesn’t Just Have a Radiologist Shortage. It Has an Expertise Allocation Problem Consider a scenario frequently reported across physician communities: an MSK radiologist encounters patients imaged at outside facilities whose reports face multi-day delays. When clinicians requested immediate follow-ups, the local specialist could interpret the study, but rigid site boundaries and isolated worklists rendered their presence unusable. While expanding the talent pipeline takes years, healthcare systems can relieve capacity constraints immediately by routing existing...

HER2-positive gastric cancer is a form of stomach cancer. Cancer cells in people with HER2-positive gastric cancer have higher levels of a protein called human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2). This protein is involved in the normal growth and development of cells but in cancer cells, it can help them to grow and divide more quickly. In some cases, there is also an increase in the number of HER2 genes in cancer cells, meaning...

Medical aesthetics expert, Dr Hala, explains why consultations, screenings and personalised treatment plans matter Over recent years, and amid the rapid growth in demand for cosmetic interventions and aesthetic treatments, patient safety concerns have been regularly raised. This also follows proposals to tighten regulation across the non-surgical aesthetic sector, with the government introducing new measures to try to ‘crack down on cowboy cosmetic procedures.’ Dr Hala, founder of Dr Hala Medical Aesthetics, a family-run medical...

Harley Street London Lip Clinic creates free resource to help patients understand treatment suitability, contraindications and potential risks London Lip Clinic, a medical aesthetics clinic based on London’s Harley Street specialising in non-surgical cosmetic treatments, including anti-wrinkle injections and Botox facial treatments for skin rejuvenation, has shared a new Treatment Suitability Tracker designed to help people researching aesthetic procedures understand which treatments may be appropriate for different concerns, when they may not be advisable, and...

Depending on the size of your facility, you may employ a healthcare compliance officer or may even have a compliance department. You may have a healthcare compliance program in place with scheduled audits. Furthermore, you are likely monitoring billing accuracy, privacy incidents, and accreditation readiness. And yet, many healthcare compliance risks slip through the cracks in internal audits, only to be discovered by a surveyor down the line. The nursing license, the BLS certification, and...

The Numbers Behind Mochi Health’s Weight Loss Results Every telehealth company selling weight loss care eventually gets asked the same question. Does it actually work for the people using it? Mochi Health has answered that question with specific, reported numbers rather than a general claim of success. According to the company, more than half of its patients lose at least 10 percent of their body weight within six months of starting treatment. Patients achieve an...

Compounding pharmacies have become one of the key players in today’s shift toward personalized medicine. The services they offer the healthcare industry allow healthcare providers to move past a one-size-fits-all model and deliver patient care that meets unique needs. But as demand for the services that compounding pharmacies provide has grown, supply chain issues have surfaced. Drug shortages, cost challenges, and concerns over quality have all impacted the ability of compounding pharmacies to play a...

A patient visits a cardiology practice website at 9:40 p.m. She completes a form, selects Tuesday morning, and receives an automatic message that says, “Your request has been received.” She reads that message as confirmation. The practice reads it differently. To staff, the form is simply an item waiting in a shared inbox until someone verifies the visit type, referral, insurance information, provider availability, and final time. No one owns the item the next morning....

Istanbul-based medical tourism company brings specialist care and travel support together for international patients RovithoMed, an Istanbul-based medical tourism company, is expanding its coordinated approach to healthcare travel, bringing access to multiple medical disciplines and patient support services together for people considering treatment in Turkey. The company’s network covers dental care, hair restoration, dermatology, facial aesthetics, oculoplastic procedures and plastic aesthetic treatments. RovithoMed also coordinates practical elements of international healthcare travel, including initial consultations, treatment...