MEDISCENE: Trends Impacting Health & Healthcare Delivery
Summer 2024

by Ronald N. Riner, MD, FACC

Inside this Issue:

• Nurse Shortages: Among Healthcare Systems’ Top Concerns

• COVID – Still in the Rear View Mirror?

• Increasing Exposure of Young Children to Illicit Fentanyl

• Private Equity Continues to Advance in Healthcare

• Happiness Scores

• Is Bigger Better? Perhaps That is in the Eyes of The Beholder!

• What Business Are You In?

• Effects of Medicaid Expansion

• Medicare Advantage 2024 Enrollment: Who Won & Who Lost?

• The Increasing Number of American Centenarians: We Must Be Doing Something Right!

• New Clinician Experience – A Concern in 2024

• Rare Diseases Abound

• Cancer Rates Increase in Younger Adults – The Trends

• The State of Ambulatory Surgical Centers