This is the initial article in an ongoing, periodic Health Affairs Forefront symposium on the ethical implications of developments in the business of health care. Articles will consider the ethical ...

Isa Montes is a double major in Ethnic Studies and Political Science, and is a 2023-24 health care ethics intern with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her ...

Orlando Caballero ‘22 is a public health major with a biology minor and a 2021-22 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. During the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Over my four decades as a physician, I have learned that the ethics of care can completely transform a health system. It means recognizing that every act of care—whether directed toward a patient, a ...

Author discusses the ethics of disclosing the cost of treatments to patients before prescribing them and weighing financial risk vs medical care. The practice of medicine requires high moral standards ...

Stephen Speicher, MD, Flatiron Health, highlights the organization's frameworks for ensuring ethical artificial intelligence (AI) usage, emphasizing the importance of providers and health systems ...

Whether by insurance or preference, Catholic health care’s presence in the United States is hard to ignore. In a recent report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, the authors noted that 16 percent of ...

Researchers at Brown University found that AI chatbots routinely violate core mental health ethics standards, underscoring ...

I am concerned about the marketing strategies some retail-based health clinics use. Clinicians are encouraged to stroll through the aisles wearing lab coats and asking shoppers about their health-care ...

UnitedHealthcare, the largest health insurance provider in the US, is currently embroiled in a class-action lawsuit alleging the wrongful denial of extended care claims for elderly patients through ...