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Dr. Jacqui O’Kane took a job with a hospital in southern Georgia in 2020, as the lone doctor in a primary care clinic in a small town that’s a medically underserved area. She soon attracted nearly 3,000 patients. But she said the hospital pressed her to take more new patients, so she had to work

Given a rapidly ageing population and an overwhelmed health system, hospitals like Samsung Medical Center had to deal with rising demands for health screening and other diagnostic needs. To meet these demands, SMC combined 5G connectivity and digital pathology, enhancing the speed of clinical decision-making across its facilities. THE PROBLEM Each day at SMC, its

Quizzes > Weekly News Quiz — You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz by MedPage Today Staff March 25, 2023 The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage Today, new information is posted daily, but keeping up

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The largest blood vessel in the body, the abdominal aorta, sends freshly oxygenated blood to the rest of the body. Each year, about 200,000 adults in the United States are diagnosed with an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), a swelling and/or potentially fatal rupture of this crucial blood vessel that occurs when

Skip to main content Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Just one in eight medical students today enters family medicine each year — a ratio that needs to double to one in four “in order to help stop the primary care doctor workforce shortage,” said Dr. Jean Wong, director of the University of Michigan’s family residency program. The group

Physician burnout has been a huge focus for healthcare provider organizations since before the pandemic – but the pandemic intensified the problem. Dr. Brian Patel knows this all too well. Patel is senior vice president for medical affairs, medical director and chief quality officer at Sturdy Memorial Hospital in Attleboro, Massachusetts. And he's been working

Cleveland Clinic and IBM on Monday announced the initial deployment of what they say is a potentially transformative quantum computing initiative that could turbocharge healthcare research. WHY IT MATTERS The new IBM Quantum System One now deployed at Cleveland Clinic is being touted as the first on-site private sector IBM-managed quantum computer in the United

The All India Institute Of Medical Science in New Delhi has announced its plan to put up 5G mobile connection across the campus.  A news report noted from an office memorandum that the campus targets to get 5G-enabled by 30 June. A special committee dedicated to this implementation will send out an official expression of