Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell is a senior project manager working in the Center for Health Incentives & Behavioral Economics (CHIBE). Prior to joining CHIBE, he worked in Penn Medicine's...
"Will robots replace doctors?" Bob Kocher and Zeke Emanuel
A 2017 study out of the Massachusetts General Hospital and MIT showed that an artificial intelligence (AI) system was equal or better than radiologists at reading mammograms...
Will Walmart’s Health Care Gamble Pay Off?
Pushing deeper into the high-risk business of health services, Walmart has opened its first standalone primary care clinic in suburban Atlanta. Walmart Health, which has a...
With time running out, an ALS patient fights with Biogen over expanded access to its drug
From STAT (subscription required to read the full article) When Biogen declined to allow an ALS patient to participate in a clinical trial under compassionate use,...
Without oversight, electronic prescribing can harm patients
By Liisa Laine and Jason Doctor "The use of electronic health record systems in doctors’ offices and hospitals has hit a major speed bump, and rightly so, with the federal...
Women fare well in this year’s crop of NIH high-risk awards
Last March, Anna Wexler was nearly 9 months pregnant with her first baby - and the timing could no have been worst. The postdoctoral research in medical ethics at the...