To join the CNBC Technology Executive Council, go to cnbccouncils.com/tec Overworked and burned out doctors and medical practitioners are becoming a big issue for an ...

An extra set of eyes on radiology scans, double-checking for signs of prostate cancer. A green light telling surgeons when it’s safe to operate on trauma patients. A reminder system that finds and ...

When her doctor died suddenly in August, Tammy MacDonald found herself among the roughly 17% of adults in America without a primary care physician. MacDonald wanted to find a new doctor right away.

Medicine may be a combination of art and science, but Microsoft just showed that much of both can be learned—by a bot. The company reports in a study published on the preprint site arXiv that its ...

A growing number of primary care doctors are going into concierge medicine, meaning they charge patients a flat fee of often a couple thousand dollars a year, or more, to be part of their practice.

Subscribers to the From the Editor texts about stories in the works in our newsroom painted a vivid picture of the medical profession in flux in response to a text about a unionization effort by ...

We’ve all been there: You wait 45 minutes in the exam room when the doctor finally walks in. They seem rushed. A few questions, a quick exam, a glance at the clock and then a rapid-fire plan with ...

Doctors say insurers are automatically downgrading their claims and paying less. Insurers say it’s their duty to prevent overbilling. In the beginning of the year, Dr. Terry Wagner’s office manager ...

Immigrants make up about a quarter of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S. Immigrants comprise about ...

ANALYSIS — At a time when most voters are skeptical of politicians, both parties are looking to doctors and nurses to secure control of Congress. With nearly two dozen doctors and nurses currently ...