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New chartbook identifies disparities in health care quality

Posted on Thursday, January 14, 2021 10:00 amJanuary 7, 2021 Posted in Health, Top Stories by VAntage Point Contributor 676 views

New chartbook identifies disparities in health care quality related to age, sex, race and ethnicity while …

Dr. Kath Bogie's research lab at the VA Advanced Platform Technology Center in Cleveland. Pictured from left to right, Dhruv Seshadri, Katie Schwartz, Kath Bogie, Bryan Hausman, and Jason Collins.

VA researcher develops ‘smart bandage’ technology for chronic wounds

Posted on Wednesday, September 16, 2020 9:00 amSeptember 14, 2020 Posted in Research by Erica Sprey 1k views

It is a problem that Dr. Kath Bogie has been working on intermittently for nearly 15 years. Bogie and a team …

Internal medicine physician Dr. Howard Gordon sees a patient.

‘I’m battling an encyclopedia’

Posted on Friday, May 29, 2020 9:00 amMay 22, 2020 Posted in Research by Erica Sprey 688 views

Patients should feel comfortable asking their physicians questions, making requests, or expressing an …