By Patrick Connole Bill Frist, M.D., the former Senate Majority Leader and Republican senator from Tennessee, tells Health Plan Week in an exclusive interview that his close connection to the practice of telehealth began 50 years ago when he witnessed…
By Holly Fletcher An explosion of new drugs, medical apps and an ever-expanding array of ways to get treatment are reinventing how people consume health care. Yet those who would most benefit from the latest technology simply can’t afford it. And, across Tennessee and the…
By Bill Frist, M.D. NOTES FROM THE ROAD | Scotland—Survival of men and women in Scotland is the worst in Western Europe. So is their general health. Why is that? What is being done? How successful are the new, bold initiatives…
Local Ideas Upstreamed to Washington Nearly 150 Nashville health and business leaders gathered last month for the Public Health 3.0 Summit to discuss collaborations in community health and to provide on-the-ground feedback to key federal officials on what’s working and…
June 21, 2016 | ODPHP By Sharon Ricks There is a place in America, that I call the Land of the Belts. It is the home of the diabetes, stroke, and obesity belts. There are high rates of infant mortality…
