With recent federal actions to curtail vaccine access, many states have announced actions intended to maintain broader access. This issue brief provides a snapshot of this rapidly changing landscape, tracking which states have instituted changes in response to or in anticipation of administration policy changes.
Customers are no longer willing to accept vague assurances about security. Instead, they expect evidence of secure design, documented vulnerability management processes, and transparency about software components. The post Healthcare’s Security Awakening Testing Patience of Medical Device Buyers appeared first on MedCity News.
This analysis of preliminary rate filings from 318 insurers across all 50 states and DC finds that small businesses with Affordable Care Act (ACA)-compliant plans could face a median premium increase of 11% for 2026.
The proliferation and rapid adoption of AVT in clinical settings has not gone unnoticed, and NHS England has made it clear that the use of these tools must now meet stringent compliance standards. The post Rush To Regulation: What New NHS Compliance Requirements For Ambient Voice Technology Mean For US Providers appeared first on MedCity…
The State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) offers free counseling to help millions of Medicare beneficiaries make decisions about coverage. However, federal funding has been modest over the last decade, and federal administration of the program appears to be in transition.
As soon as she fell, Deborah Buttgereit knew she couldn’t avoid going to the hospital. “I could hear the bones moving around in my elbow,” said Buttgereit, who was 60 when she slipped on a patch of ice in December outside her apartment in Bozeman, Montana. Emergency room scans showed she had fractured her left…
“There’s no downside” to avoiding Tylenol or acetaminophen use while pregnant. President Donald Trump on Sept. 22, 2025, in a press conference Obstetricians have long advised their pregnant patients that Tylenol is the safest option to reduce fever or pain. President Donald Trump stood before a national audience on Sept. 22 and contradicted that. “Don’t…
When the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices met last week, confusion filled the room. Members admitted they didn’t know what they were voting on, first rejecting a combined measles-mumps-rubella-chickenpox vaccine for young toddlers, then voting to keep it funded minutes later. The next day, they reversed themselves on the funding. Now Jim O’Neill, the…
By KIM BELLARD Science buffs will recognize the title as the (possibly apocryphal) quote Galileo muttered after he was forced by the Catholic Church to recant his assertion that the earth moved around the sun, contrary to church dogma. We’re in an era where it is the Trump Administration, not the church, forcing people and…
Should health technology assessment (HTA) processes consider using distributional cost effectiveness analysis (DCEA) to incorporate technology impacts on inequality? Some say ‘yes’ and some say ‘no’. Let’s take a look at both sides. No In a Letter to the Editor in Value in Health, Sreeram Ramagopalan noted that NICE currently has a number of concerns…