Richard Payerchin

If your patients say they have a difficult time getting their prescriptions filled, there’s a reason why: The United States is having a record drug shortage right now. The American Society of Hospital Pharmacists has the data and The Hill political news website has this report.

Culture, data, clinical change and patients all are essential to operating accountable care organizations, experts say.

Senators hear possibilities about nation’s single largest health care payer.

Economist discusses medical equivalent to system already used in banking to transfer money.

A surgeon made history by performing the first augmented reality abdominal surgery to remove a patient’s gallbladder in March. The operation, performed in Santiago, Chile, “opens a new world” for surgeons and offers better care for the patient, the physician said. The patient fully recovered within two weeks. Fox News has more details.

The new Impact Wellbeing Guide has six actions that hospital and health system leaders can use to make meaningful changes to work conditions that contribute to burnout in physicians and other clinicians.

House subcommittee members relate constituent experiences, hear suggestions, question consolidation in health care.

Economist discusses potential cost savings and fewer administrative burdens if U.S. health care had an automated clearinghouse.

President Joe Biden announced a new Global Health Security Strategy with actions the nation will take over the next five years to prevent, detect and respond to biological threats wherever they emerge.

Federal regulators announce public meeting next week on issue that is divisive in health care.