MEDISCENE Fall/Winter 2024

by Ronald N. Riner, MD, FACC

Inside this Issue:

• A Time to Reflect

• Focus on Heart Disease

• Collective Trauma/Commemoration –An Appropriate Moment of Silence

• What’s Covered and By Whom?

• Health System’s New Evolving Growth Metrics

• The Challenged Rural Hospital: ?Academic Medical Centers to the Rescue?

• Where You Were Born or Where You Live May Have Bearing on How Long You Live

• The Worldwide Obesity Challenge

• The Aging Highlight the Flip Side of the Argument

• Artificial Intelligence Use in Healthcare: A Few Tidbits

• Something to Be Watched

• Within Your Control: Modifiable Risk Factors

• Data: Issues at a Glance

• AND MUCH MORE...