This is the initial article in an ongoing, periodic Health Affairs Forefront symposium on the ethical implications of developments in the business of health care. Articles will consider the ethical ...

Mass General Brigham has implemented a system-wide code of conduct for patients, in response to a rise in violent and hostile behavior toward healthcare providers around the country, a spokesperson ...

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In the past decade, significant advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have created transformational opportunities for health, health care, and biomedical science, offering new tools to ...

EHNAC and CARIN have collaborated on a guide for healthcare providers, insurers, developers, and app developers. Two influential developers of healthcare data standards have created a common code of ...

PITTSFIELD — Based on a rising level of violent interactions at hospitals, Berkshire Health Systems is adopting a community code of conduct that might result in a patient or visitor being asked to ...

I would like to encourage local health leaders to follow the national initiative in doing more to prevent violence against hospital staff. Recently the Mass General Brigham health care network created ...

Isa Montes is a double major in Ethnic Studies and Political Science, and is a 2023-24 health care ethics intern with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her ...

Author discusses the ethics of disclosing the cost of treatments to patients before prescribing them and weighing financial risk vs medical care. The practice of medicine requires high moral standards ...

Sydney Shelby ’25 is pursuing a double major in biology and public health with a minor in philosophy, and was a 2023-24 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are ...

You learn that a health care worker was fired for inappropriate conduct toward disabled adults and want to know what happened and what it means for care standards and legal obligations. You should ...