SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As smoke from Canadian wildfires drifted across North America, and western U.S. states girded for their annual fire siege, Neeta Thakur was well into her search for ways to offset the damage of such fumes on people’s health, especially among minority and low-income communities. For more than a decade, the University of…
Cuando el presidente Donald Trump firmó una ley que agrega requisitos laborales para algunos beneficiarios de Medicaid, es posible que haya perjudicado a legisladores de al menos 14 estados que estaban diseñando sus propios planes, según observadores del sector de salud. Georgia es el único estado con un requisito laboral para Medicaid, pero varios estados…
By MICHAEL MILLENSON Shared decision-making between doctors and patients may be “the pinnacle of patient-centered care,” but three new medical journal articles suggest it’s encountering more problems than peaks. Yet counterintuitively, it may be artificial intelligence that rescues this intimately human interaction. “Shared decision-making is at a crossroads,” declares a Perspective in the Journal of General…
Rural People’s Voice organized a press conference last month to alert the public
Healthcare AI progress could soon stall due to fragmented, inaccessible data systems, warned OMNY Health CEO Mitesh Rao. He said that scalable AI requires a more interoperable data infrastructure — and without it, even it will be difficult for advanced AI solutions to succeed. The post Healthcare’s Poor Data Infrastructure Is Hindering AI Innovation in…
With HealthTap’s new direct virtual primary care program, members get ongoing access to a primary care doctor of their choosing through video visits and messaging. The post HealthTap Introduces Direct Virtual Primary Care Program appeared first on MedCity News.
Hansa Biopharma has encouraging early clinical results showing its drug imlifidase, used as a pretreatment, enabled Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients to receive the gene therapy Elevidys. Sarepta is searching for ways to mitigate excessive immune responses to Elevidys that can lead to serious and potentially fatal liver injury. The post Sarepta’s Future in Gene Therapy…
Today’s AI is not truly agentic because it’s not truly independent of you. The current crop of agents can’t set complex goals, or properly verify outputs. You have to spend a lot of effort on prompting, verifying, and system integrating. That just means the smarter you are, the smarter the AI is. It’s really amplified…
The HHS Secretary contends that federal policy financially rewarded hospitals for reporting staff vaccination rates
Premiums will rise in 2026 for most of the 22 million people who receive premium tax credits, experts say