Virtual care has great potential to improve rural health and health equity. Virtual care can either serve to stretch the capabilities of understaffed rural clinics – for example, by pre-screening or ...

Digital inclusion offers pathways to health equity by expanding access to the formal health care sector and supporting independent health management. Yet poverty- and education-related disparities ...

This article is part of “Ethics & Health Systems Change,” an ongoing, periodic Health Affairs Forefront symposium on the ethical implications of developments in the business of health care. Articles ...

Washington, D.C. — The rapid rise of private equity ownership of hospitals, nursing homes, and physician practices is threatening patient safety, driving up costs, and undermining competition and ...

We know that only 20% of health outcomes are determined by clinical care, while the other 80% are shaped by social and environmental factors. To advance human-centered health, we must invest in the ...

Pharmacies are more than just stores—they're vital links between people and their health care. One of us, Patrick, witnessed this firsthand in 2003 while working as a pharmacy technician at Walgreens ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Patients, laid-off employees, community leaders and legislators in Delaware County ...

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Linden Capital Partners’ first fund. Over those 20 years, our mission has been remarkably stable: Partner with great management teams to build and support ...

President Donald Trump’s administration has dramatically reshaped health and medical research by rolling back federal funding from institutions that have diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives ...

Asia is getting wealthier, older—and potentially sicker, as rates of non-communicable disease rise across Southeast Asia. Yet governments aren’t investing enough in public health care, threatening to ...