patients

These patients aren’t real. Why are they giving birth?

Fake people, known as human patient simulators, populate a suite of labs on Northeastern’s Boston campus to help students prepare to take care of real…

Aria Bracci October 9, 2018

Doctoral student gets hands-on research experience in population health

Through Northeastern’s population health doctoral program, Cassidy Griffin combines her doctoral studies with research at MEDITECH, a Massachusetts-based health information company. In so doing, she…

Greg St. Martin January 26, 2016

Does your healthcare provider know you?

Northeastern University sociologist Timothy Hoff has found that the healthcare system’s emphasis on efficiency and technology has made it much more transactional and impersonal.

Greg St. Martin February 26, 2014

3Qs: Patients’ access to doctors’ notes

Law professor Michael Meltsner discusses the impact of a recent study that sought to determine the effect of allowing patients to review their doctors’ notes…

Lauren Dibble November 19, 2012

3Qs: High time for an AIDS ‘wake-up call’

Law professor Brook Baker, a featured speaker at the upcoming 2012 International AIDS Conference, evaluates how the global community is faring in the battle against…

Casey Bayer July 20, 2012

These patients aren’t real. Why are they giving birth?

Doctoral student gets hands-on research experience in population health

Does your healthcare provider know you?

3Qs: Patients’ access to doctors’ notes

3Qs: High time for an AIDS ‘wake-up call’

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