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Portland, Oregon-based Bright.md raised $1 million in a round led by Seven Peaks Ventures with participation from Portland Seed Fund and Oregon Angel Fund. This brings the company's total funding to ...

DUBLIN — Researchers in Spain have reported a complex picture of primary care patient safety across the country, with survey results highlighting a critical need for improved communication systems ...

Communication professor Charee Thompson, right, and graduate student Junhyung Han led a study that found that shared decision-making and the quality of the health care provider’s history-taking and ...

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As a health policy professional who has spent nearly two decades working in health care quality measurement—much of it at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and private payers—I (Ma) ...