Building a Future of Connected Health, Together
First project launched under the Connected Health Collaborative Community will focus on advancing a sustainable hospital-at-home ecosystem at scale
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4 Large Health Systems Form Initiative to Enhance Core Operations
Baylor Scott & White Health, Memorial Hermann Health System, Novant Health and Providence form Longitude Health to scale the next generation of capabilities
Harris Proposes Medicare at Home Benefit
VP Harris appeared on ABC’s “The View” to outline the campaign’s new proposal for home healthcare
Look Who’s Talking at HLTH
HLTH, scheduled for October 20-23 in Las Vegas, spotlights individuals across the healthcare ecosystem from high-powered executives such as the head of health technology at tech and social media giant Meta to Lenny Kravitz, who will talk about health equity. Here’s a preview of who will be speaking at HLTH, what they’ll be talking about,…
Pete Hudson, Alta Partners & Transcarent Investor (Part 1)
Pete Hudson is one of the OGs of digital health. As an emergency room doc he was fed up with his friends bothering him with their medical problems and he created a tool called iTriage, which helped patients figure out what condition they had, and where to go to deal with it. This was fifteen…
Housekeeper Amari Alston’s Quick Action Shows Safety is Our Priority
On a Sunday morning in late July, Crothall housekeeper Amari Alston couldn’t open the door to a patient’s room at Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C. She has visited the patient the previous day and made it a point to make an early visit to this patient. But when the door handle wouldn’t…
Scholar Rock Scores $300M for Regulatory Filings & Launch Plans for Neuromuscular Disease Drug
On the heels of Phase 3 data showing muscle improvement in the rare neuromuscular disease spinal muscular atrophy, Scholar Rock raised $300 million in a stock offering. U.S. and European regulatory submissions for the drug are now planned for early 2025. The post Scholar Rock Scores $300M for Regulatory Filings & Launch Plans for Neuromuscular…
A Current Snapshot of the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Benefit
This brief provides an overview of the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit, including current data on plan availability, enrollment, and spending and financing, and highlights recent changes under the Inflation Reduction Act.
Video: Besides, Pharma and PBMs, Who Drives Up Drug Costs?
If you thought that Big Pharma and the PBMs were the only bad guys in the saga of unreasonably high prescription drug prices in the United States, you would be wrong. Hear who else is to blame from the CEO of Blue Shield of California. The post Video: Besides, Pharma and PBMs, Who Drives Up…
How does the quality of the U.S. health care system compare to other countries?
This chart collection compare health outcomes, quality of care, and access to services between the U.S. and peer countries. While inconsistent and imperfect metrics make it difficult to firmly assess system-wide health quality in the U.S., a review of the available data prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic suggests that in most of…