Articles Tagged: IowaIdeas: Healthcare

People are a lot like cars. Some are brand-new. Some have been around awhile. Some are showing their age. Both …

D.J. Spilker and Jeri Thomas couldn’t be more different. Sixty-nine-year-old Spilker is a type A personality, an active person who …

Health care constantly evolves and shifts, in policy and practice. Iowa providers need to innovate to provide the best care. …

As Ann Aschoff thumbs through the photos on her computer, she thinks aloud how she will never forget what her …

If current obesity trends continue, one in eight Iowans will be diabetic by 2030. One in four will have heart …

The Affordable Care Act extended health care coverage to about 200,000 Iowans, but gaps still persist. The cost of pharmaceutical …

Iowa’s insurance commissioner said Friday he has lost faith in Congress’ ability to fix the nation’s health care system. Moreover, …

CEDAR RAPIDS — Iowa’s human services chief took a tough negotiating stance Thursday, saying he will not ease the state’s …

Population health management. It’s the term du jour in the health care industry. But what is it? And more important, …

Jean Robillard, vice president for medical affairs and dean of the Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa, …

It may be early on a Monday morning, but the sounds of cardio machines can be heard from down the …

Iowa has a large and intricate safety net in place to provide care for the nearly 36 percent of the …

There are an estimated 350,000 family caregivers in Iowa, caring for spouses, parents, siblings or children with chronic or terminal …

Michele Vinz likes to joke that she’s a psychiatric nurse with no training, no education — and no pay. Four …

When Dot Hinman went to the pharmacy this past December to pick up her husband’s prescription blood thinners, she was …