A change of focus in medical school curricula is a hopeful sign for the future.

If you give up choice, you can save money. But do Americans want to give up choice?

A new price transparency tool for cancer medications may save patients a lot of money and improve their health.

Apple is aiming to make clinical trials better by collecting data from iPhone users who volunteer to take part. The company could become an important health care resource.

Some technologies make health care better but raises costs. Others lower costs without sacrificing quality. We need much more of the latter.

More middle-income Americans are experimenting with concierge medicine, but that means provider shortages could get even worse.

Employers are increasingly penalizing employees who refuse to enroll in programs to lose weight or quit smoking.

The AMA’s new guidelines for telemedicine are needlessly prohibitive. We need to rethink how we regulate health care in the age of smartphones, instead of importing old regulatory structures.

The Commonwealth Fund has put the U.S. last in its 2014 survey of first world health care systems. It’s yet another reminder that the ACA is no cure for the persistent flaws in our health care system.

Big Data applications are all the rage in health care right now, but centralized databases have limitations. We need to empower consumers, not give medi-wonks more excuses to exercise even more centralized control of the national health care bureaucracy.