South Carolina’s Lexington Health is adapting to rapid tech change, including AI that helps record patient visits and prepare ...

(Reuters Health) - A growing number of nurse practitioners are providing primary care in rural and low-income U.S. communities where the physician workforce is shrinking, a new study suggests.

Primary care is in high demand, but the ongoing physician shortage leaves plenty of access gaps. One solution? Harnessing the skills of nurse practitioners in underserved areas, according to a new ...

The pandemic has taught us about an economic and logistic concept that most people take for granted, if they’ve even thought about it at all: the global supply chain. Beginning early in the Covid-19 ...

You made it through NP school, passed your boards, started seeing patients in primary care, and now… you’re wondering what ...

Because of workforce needs and demographic and chronic disease trends, nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) are taking a larger role in the primary care of medically complex ...

Personnel costs ($90,514) of a primary care–embedded adolescent behavioral health nurse practitioner over 2 years were 63% of the potential revenue generated ($144,449). Objectives: To determine the ...

For many patients, seeing a nurse practitioner has become a routine part of primary care, in which these “NPs” often perform the same tasks that patients have relied on doctors for. But NPs in ...

One of the few things that just about all sides agree upon in this health care debate is that we need more primary care providers — lots more. And an already serious shortage will only get worse if we ...