Doctors aren’t going away, but as technology empowers nurses and other providers, they will certainly do less primary care. This is good news for everyone.

Telemedicine could give Americans in doctor-poor areas better access to care, but outdated laws are getting in the way.

The holy grail of medical 3-D printing is the ability to produce a functioning human organ. But even though that goal is far away, there is still a lot 3-D printing can already do to disrupt health care.

American medicine needs innovations in medical technology if it is to become affordable and efficient. But a Washington Post profile of a new diagnostic tool shows just how resistant to those innovations the political and legal culture around American health care is.

The Medicaid expansion is producing newly insured Americans that doctors can’t or won’t treat. Giving nurse practitioners more authority to care for patients independently could help.

First Wal-Mart put licensed agents into its stores to help customers navigate a complex health care system; now a division of the company is launching its own private insurance exchanges that aim to be simpler to use than the public ones launched with the ACA. Wal-Mart might become a lead pioneer in making our health insurance system more efficient.

U.S. companies are finding ways to lower the cost of eldercare with new technologies. The future of U.S. health care depends on these efforts—not on Washington’s technocratic tinkering.

Wal-Mart has just unveiled its new plan to impoverish the American people: providing licensed agents to help individuals navigate the confusing health care marketplace. Absolutely shameless.

UCLA’s health system is normalizing telemedicine by giving patients 24/7 access to online consultations. Reforms like this are desparately needed, because they save the health care system money as well as saving patients time

Two new studies show that under the ACA more people are using emergency rooms for primary care or other services that could be delivered more efficiently and cheaply at another venue.