The growing popularity of third-party health apps is justified: they allow patients to take charge of everything from chronic disease management to menstrual cycles.
“These apps hold a lot of...
Abortion opponents, led by The Alliance for Defending Freedom, which also worked to overturn Roe v. Wade, are now targeting the medications used for ending pregnancies. The lawsuit filed in Texas seeks...
Jails can provide opportunities to diagnose and treat individuals for HIV. However, supporting care coordination for formerly incarcerated individuals upon reentry into the community can be difficult...
Last week, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) warned organizations to watch for a new ransomware variant that emerged in August and has already affected one healthcare...
Specialty pharmacy team members such as pharmacists and nurses can extend their patient care role by providing additional support to patients with chronic diseases and advocating for better...
The FDA is being pressured to force a recall of popular dry shampoos from the market after it was found that many contain benzene, a carcinogenic chemical. Meanwhile, CMS released its physician fee...
Specialty pharmacy team members such as pharmacists and nurses have the opportunity to extend their patient care role by providing additional support to patients with chronic diseases and...
The Department of Defense and FDA announced new grants that will be used to create treatments and therapies for several debilitating diseases. The grants, worth over $40 million, will address dementia...
Partnership in the healthcare industry can be fraught due to competing interests and competition within segments of the industry, but when a healthcare organization creates internal industry...
Funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is headed to Intravacc and Mount Sinai to help those organizations improve healthcare in the United States. Using nearly $15 million in grant money,...
Delivering high-quality, value-based care is a strategic goal for most US healthcare organizations, though the means to the end varies. For one senior-focused primary care provider, in-home care...
US District Judge Rudolph Contreras has ordered the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to restore full payments to hospitals and reverse its cuts to the 340B Drug Pricing Program. HHS,...
There are four major challenges that organizations face when they try to implement global capitation model, Michael Weiss, MD, vice president of population health for Children’s Hospital of...
Last week, President Joe Biden announced that he was pardoning all people convicted of federal marijuana possession and seeking to reclassify marijuana with the Department of Health and Human Services...
Privia Quality Network is one of the top earners of the Medicare Shared Savings Program, the federal government’s largest running accountable care organization (ACO) program. Across its four...
*This article has been updated to clarify the FDA's decision on Relyvrio*
This week, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) continues to struggle with its EHR implementation as the Oracle-Cerner...
In 2019, a group of payers, providers, and other healthcare stakeholders converged to reimagine advanced primary care in the state of California through value-based care collaboration.
The California...
Digital health vendor, Eko, received $2.7 million from the National Institutes for Health (NIH) to build its machine learning smart stethoscope device. The machine learning algorithm that will make the...
When MetNetOne Health Solutions established roaming physician teams that would go from practice to practice to help address chronic disease management needs around two decades ago, it became apparent...
An FBI warning letter shared with healthcare providers encouraged them to take an active interest in their legacy systems after the agency noticed increasing security holes across a range of medical...
