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How health care quietly powers the U.S. economy
There is enormous job growth happening in the health care sector. It added 346,000 new jobs in 2018, outpacing every other sector.Hospitals economically sustain large communities not only through...
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Technology is revolutionizing health care — for better and for worse
Health care is at the forefront of technology and innovation. Telehealth, bioelectronic medicine, and big data improve the quality of patient care while reducing the cost.As wearable devices and...
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The unexpected cost of living for a very long time
Medical advances have increased our longevity by decades, says Michael Dowling, president and CEO of Northwell Health. That benefit comes with an unintended disadvantage – high costs. Bringing the...
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Why health care should start long before you reach the hospital
The average American spends about 24 hours a year at the doctor's office. What you do the other 364 days a year mostly determines your health.Michael Dowling discusses Northwell's focus on...
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Apple, Amazon, and Uber are moving in on health care. Will it help?
Companies like Apple, Amazon, and Google have been busy investing in health care companies, developing new apps, and hiring health professionals for new business ventures. Their current focus appears...
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Health care: Information tech must catch up to medical marvels
The United States health care system has much room for improvement, and big tech may be laying the foundation for those improvements. Technological progress in medicine is coming from two fronts:...
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A value-based payment system could revolutionize health care as we know it
Value-based health care focuses on tangible improvements in patient care outcomes. The goal is to reduce the per capita cost while improving treatment. Current fee-for-service payment models focus too...
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'Upstreamism': Your zip code affects your health as much as genetics
Upstreamism tasks health care professionals to combat unhealthy social and cultural influences that exist outside — or upstream — of medical facilities. Patients from low-income neighborhoods are most...
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Getting mental health care makes the body healthier — especially for the elderly
Studies have shown that depression can worsen in our old age.Other mental health concerns, too, are not only debilitating on their own but they can often make it more difficult to treat other health...
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3D printing might save your life one day. It's transforming medicine and...
Medical professionals are currently using 3D printers to create prosthetics and patient-specific organ models that doctors can use to prepare for surgery. Eventually, scientists hope to print...
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Telemedicine: The future of health care is already here
Digital technologies that disrupted industries like communication and transportation are steadily changing health care, too.Virtual health care will save consumers money while growing the industry by...
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Deep empathy: How AI can strengthen doctor-patient connections
Today's rate of innovation and change has made it difficult for patients and physicians to effectively integrate technology into medical best practices.Experts agree that physicians need more time in...
View ArticleWhat does kindness look like? It wears a mask.
Michael Dowling is president and CEO of Northwell Health, the largest health care system in New York state. In this PSA, speaking as someone whose company has seen more COVID-19 patients than any...
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COVID-19 amplified America’s devastating health gap. Can we bridge it?
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated America's health disparities, widening the divide between the haves and have nots.Studies show disparities in wealth, race, and online access have...
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Can hospitals prevent gun violence? This ‘universal screening’ study will...
New York's Northwell Health system recently received a $1.4 million grant for a new study on gun violence prevention.The study tasks doctors with asking all patients about their access and exposure to...
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Telehealth will save lives—for as long as it has funding
When telehealth visits began skyrocketing after the pandemic began, hospitals had to increase their number of virtual appointments by magnitudes. Most did it seamlessly.Big Think spoke to Dr. Martin...
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The social determinants of health, explained
Social determinants of health, such as income and access to healthy food, affect well-being long before people may enter medical facilities. They're one reason neighborhoods in the same city can...
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How New York's largest hospital system is predicting COVID-19 spikes
The machine-learning algorithm works by analyzing the online behavior of visitors to the Northwell Health website and comparing that data to future COVID-19 hospitalizations.The tool, which uses...
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4 lessons the US learned from the COVID-19 pandemic
As the US commences its early stages of COVID-19 vaccinations, Michael Dowling, president and CEO of Northwell Health, argues that now is not the time to relax. "There are lessons to be learned by...
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Can better data defeat the next pandemic?
This coronavirus pandemic is very much still ongoing, but now is the time to discern its lessons so that we are more prepared for the next one. Michael Dowling, president and CEO of Northwell Health,...
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Can scientists find the ‘holy grail’ of Alzheimer’s research?
Alzheimer's is a neurodegenerative disease that is estimated to affect twice as many Americans by 2050, making it a troubling eventuality for many young adults.There's currently no cure for...
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How your social media data can become a ‘mental health X-ray’
About one in five people suffer from a psychiatric disorder, and many go years without treatment, if they receive it at all.In a new study, researchers developed machine-learning algorithms that...
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How one NY hospital system treated 128,000+ COVID cases
Preparing for a pandemic like COVID-19 was virtually impossible. Northwell Health president and CEO Michael Dowling explains how, as the largest healthcare provider in New York, his team had to...
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How leaders influence people to believe
What does it take to be a leader? For Northwell Health president and CEO Michael Dowling, having an Ivy League degree and a large office is not what makes a leader. Leadership requires something much...
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How tiny bioelectronic implants may someday replace pharmaceutical drugs
Bioelectronic medicine is an emerging field that focuses on manipulating the nervous system to treat diseases.Clinical studies show that using electronic devices to stimulate the vagus nerve is...
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