Hospitals and many insurance carriers care about patient satisfaction. It especially matters to hospitals because insurance payments can be influenced by how patients rate the care they receive, as well as by the health of the patient,...

On Thursday, China’s number of confirmed novel coronavirus infections grew to 28,000 cases or a 15 percent increase over the previous day. <br/>

On Tuesday news spread about a huge explosion in Beirut (Lebanon). At the time it was unclear where the blast came from and what impact it would have. Just over a day later we now want to run through what we currently believe happened,...

Being sick enough to go to the hospital is not a great experience. You know what's worse? Staying overnight in the hospital. There's a very good chance you're going to get your sleep interrupted frequently, and that's not going to speed...

Health and the NHS has been shown to be the most important issue for our viewers in this election. So to make things easier we've made a video which compares all of the major parties plans for the NHS.

Satellite imagery of vehicle traffic around hospitals in Wuhan suggests the coronavirus may have struck the city months before the outbreak was acknowledged.

Rural hospitals in the United States are having an increasingly hard time staying in business. Which is not great for the health of people who live in areas that no longer have a hospital.

More and more tech companies are stepping up to the plate to assist frontline workers and healthcare organizations as the coronavirus continues to take its toll around the world. Computerworld’s Ken Mingis joins Juliet to discuss how...

This video explores five fun facts about Florence Nightingale.

Every once in a while, we like to take a moment and focus on health systems around the world. Today, we're looking at Taiwan, which made the transition to a single payer system kind of suddenly, and pretty recently.

As work in the UK gets more precarious and the gig economy booms, trade unionism is being reimagined and people from a wide range of backgrounds are joining new kinds of unions, often for the first time. Before coronavirus hit the UK and...

When it comes to giving birth, the first image that comes to mind is a woman lying down on her back, but this wasn't always the case. In fact the origin of the position we now most associate with women giving birth started as a procedure...

This video highlights the growing concern over dengue fever in Jakarta, a disease that is blamed on climate change. The Indonesian government has set up an emergency system to halt its spread, and the community is responding by...

This lesson provides an overview of the blockchain technology, its characteristics, and how it differs from cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. It also explores the potential use cases of blockchain technology in creating open marketplaces...

When I was a resident, I always marvelled at how on nights and weekends, remarkably fewer people were "required" to take care of patients than on weekdays during work hours. Logic dictated that either people must be receiving substandard...

This haunting film provides a brilliant summary of one of the most infamous experiments ever conducted in psychology, looking at its origins, methods, quite extraordinary findings and its lasting impact on psychiatry.

Host Joshua gives a brief overview of the Black Death and influenza pandemics. He focuses on the toll they each took on the population and the ways these pandemics changed the structure of society from hospitals to...

Studies report that hundreds of thousands of people die from preventable medical errors in the US each year. But is that right? This week we talk about times when smart people come to different conclusions from the same facts. It makes...

You've all experienced it: There's a problem with your health care bill, or you have difficulty getting coverage for the care you need. Your doctor or hospital tells you to talk to your insurer. Your insurer tells you to talk to your...

We've been getting a lot of requests to talk about the health care systems of different countries. It's really hard to compress the complexities of each into an episode, but we're going to try. First up is the United States. Others will...

We ring fence NHS spending and western countries spend ever more on medicine. But a third of all deaths are due to medical intervention and some argue poverty not pathogens makes the biggest difference. Is it a fantasy to believe that...

In this episode of Healthcare Triage, Dr. Aaron Carroll gets some surprised questions from "friend of Obama" John Green who is still waiting for his big government giveaway . Unfortunately, insurance still costs money, and it's still...