An interesting finding from Liu, Wang, Jin and Lu (2025): While the labor market effects of industrial robots have been extensively studied, their broader health implications, particularly on chronic diseases, remain unexplored. This study fills this gap by linking China’s national-industry robot adoption data to individual health records from the China Health and Nutrition Survey…
Providence and Humana launched a new initiative to standardize and streamline data exchange between payers and providers. The program leverages FHIR-based APIs to create a scalable, real-time system that can be replicated across other healthcare organizations nationwide. The post Providence, Humana Launch Initiative to Standardize Payer-Provider Data Sharing appeared first on MedCity News.
Knownwell’s $25 million in funding was led by CVS Health Ventures and included participation from MassMutual Catalyst Fund, Intermountain Ventures, a16z Bio + Health and Flare Capital Partners. The post Knownwell Secures $25M to Expand Obesity Medicine appeared first on MedCity News.
Kernesha Weatherly, D.H.A., vice president of imaging services and provider practice, explains impact of widespread implementation
Roche’s Gazyva, which first reached the market as a blood cancer drug, has expanded its FDA approval to include treatment of the autoimmune disorder lupus nephritis. The CD20-targeting antibody can now compete against a blockbuster GSK drug that is the standard biologic therapy for the debilitating kidney condition. The post FDA Approval for Roche Cancer…
Payer and provider organization anticipate their framework will be easily replicable, serving as a scalable model for the industry
By MATTHEW HOLT A few weeks back I wrote an article on what’s wrong with primary care and how we should fix it. The tl:dr version was to give every American a concierge primary care physician paid for by the government. We would give everyone a $2k voucher (on average, dependent on age, medical status,…
The way forward isn’t bigger models. It’s smaller, smarter ones. Small Language Models (SLMs) are designed to do what LLMs can’t: learn from enterprise data and focus on specific problems. The post LLMs Have Eaten the Internet — Now They’re Starving on Themselves appeared first on MedCity News.
Guideline directed care pathways are a way to shift from transactional PA, where each service requires separate approval, to an episode-of-care model. The post It’s Time to Rethink Prior Authorization for Chronic and Serious Conditions appeared first on MedCity News.
Companies running private Medicare and Medicaid insurance plans inaccurately list many mental health professionals as being available to treat the plans’ members, a new federal watchdog report says. The investigators allege that some insurers effectively set up “ghost networks” of psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals who purportedly have agreed to treat patients covered…