Enclothed Cognition

In a single hospital, hundreds of thousands of instrument sets are processed monthly which means there is ample room for human error.

The following list includes quite serious issues that health organizations will have to face in 2017.

The ‘weekend effect’ closely resembles another effect that has left medical community scrambling for answers as to how can mortality rates be improved during the summer, known as the ‘July effect’.

For people suffering from chronic symptoms that have gone undiagnosed, CrowdMed crowdsources a diagnosis from medical experts working together from around the world. 

Only 13 studies on its use have been published in medical literature, with less than 200 participants altogether, most of whom were adult men.

The key insight from the survey that should be taken with most concern is the large number of physicians that feel their practice or hospital is not helping to address and provide solutions to burnout. 

Hala Sabry, DO, MBA is the founder of PMG and creator of National Women Physicians Day, which was celebrated for the first time in 2016. As we honor the upcoming NWPD 2017, read her inspiring words to females in medicine. 

In the weeks leading up to NWPD we will be accepting submissions from anyone with a story to tell about your experience as a woman physician.

An analysis at Atlanta's Emory University found that wayfinding was costing the institution more than $200,000 every year.

Experts at the Cleveland Clinic's Miller Family Heart and Vascular Institute have outlined a dozen key developments and advancements that could change the practice of cardiovascular medicine in 2017 and beyond.