International patients can bring a hospital as much as $2 million for a transplant. In recent years, they have typically gotten organs faster than U.S. patients. Credit...Alyssa Schukar for The New ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. John Samuels is the Founder/CEO of Wellworth healthcare advisory firm. America’s healthcare system was never designed for patients ...

Objective Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) in Jordan has been previously evaluated using disease-specific HRQoL tools. Meanwhile, data on HRQoL utility ...

Objective Patient engagement (PE), or a patient’s participation in their healthcare, is an important component of comprehensive healthcare delivery, yet there is not an existing, publicly available, ...

Yet, communication around PROMs remains underexplored. Importantly, patients differ in their skills, knowledge, preferences, and motivations for completing PROMs, as well as in their ability and ...

HIDRADENITIS suppurativa (HS) is a chronic, relapsing inflammatory skin disease marked by painful lesions, drainage, odour and fatigue that can profoundly disrupt daily life and psychosocial wellbeing ...

Structural racism, poverty, and inequities in housing, education, and employment have created significant gaps in health outcomes. 1 Unequal rates of disease, treatment, and mortality ...

A key Senate committee has adopted an amendment to a defense spending bill that would allow U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) doctors to recommend medical marijuana to military veterans living ...

Cybersecurity in healthcare has entered a new era. Threats have become more frequent, more sophisticated and more intertwined with patient care than ever before. When a successful cyberattack happens, ...