Health data privacy with AI depends on where information goes and whether HIPAA protection applies. Use 5 questions to map the data path before sharing.

For many physicians, the first truly useful encounter with generative AI has been remarkably mundane. It takes notes. Ambient AI listens to the encounter, organizes the conversation, drafts the ...

Read together, the 198 KevinMD posts on diabetes and obesity say one thing consistently: telling patients to eat less and move more did not work, and the doctors writing have spent fifteen years ...

Read together, the 59 KevinMD posts on violence against health care workers say one thing consistently: it is treated as part of the job, and the people it happens to say it is not. The record holds a ...

An eye surgeon who used to see forty patients a day now sees one to three in a morning, and he has no staff. Oren Fass, a board-certified ophthalmologist and cataract surgeon, has been an employed ...

Droughts may be creating the perfect conditions for antibiotic-resistant bacteria to thrive. As the frequency and severity of droughts intensify in regions like California, scientists worry about the ...

Read together, the 479 KevinMD posts on women’s health say one thing consistently: the conditions women describe were dismissed, and the doctors writing agree with them. Endometriosis diagnosed after ...

Every night on mainstream streaming platforms, I see the same rotation of charity commercials: protect dogs, save Syrian children, shelter American runaways, support childhood cancer care, preserve ...

Read together, the 95 KevinMD posts on board certification say one thing consistently: physicians value passing the boards once and have spent a dozen years arguing that the cycle of recertification ...

Most of us have a well-rehearsed speech for patients with elevated blood sugar. We talk about the heart. The kidneys. The eyes. The feet. We walk through the whole organ-by-organ checklist a glucose ...

Ask an independent practice owner who handles the revenue cycle and the answer is usually the name of a billing company. Ask what that company actually does each month and the answer gets shorter.

As a young person living with chronic pain, I entered a health care system that was built to find explanations to clinical problems. That is, of course, what medicine is supposed to do. Physicians are ...