[Sponsored] In interviews with MedCity News Reporter Marissa Plescia and Editor-in-Chief Arundhati Parmar, healthcare executives offered updates on their companies and their outlook. The post Heard at HLTH: Streamlining Administrative Tasks and Improving Workflows with AI (Video) appeared first on MedCity News.
Medical educators and health professionals warn that new federal student loan caps in President Donald Trump’s tax cut law could make it more expensive for many people to become doctors and could exacerbate physician shortages nationwide. And, they warn, the economic burden will steer many medical students to lucrative specialties in more affluent, urban areas…
In April, Thomas Sanford, a medical student who regularly listens to “An Arm and a Leg,” set out to create a resource he could easily share with patients to help them deal with unaffordable medical bills. In this mini-episode, host Dan Weissmann talks with Sanford about how handing out charity care information on tiny cards…
One family in Virginia Beach, Virginia, just found out their health plan’s deductible will jump from $800 to $20,000 next year. About 200 miles north, in Maryland, another household learned they’ll pay $500 more monthly to insure their brood in 2026. And thousands of people in Idaho were greeted with insurance rates that’ll cost, on…
Generalized risk-adjusted cost effectiveness analysis (GRACE) abandons the assumption of risk neutrality held by traditional cost effectiveness analysis (TCEA). While this sounds like a very technical issue, by allowing for risk aversion over quality of life, GRACE places a relatively higher value on treatments that improve health for more severe diseases and relatively lower value…
Avidity Biosciences brings to Novartis three RNA therapies in pivotal testing for rare neuromuscular diseases along with the technology that produced them. This platform develops drugs in a new class of targeted medicines offering potential to expand the delivery of RNA treatments beyond the liver. The post Novartis Continues RNA & Neuroscience Growth Strategy With…
At MedCity News’ Tête-à-tête Health event, executives from Sutter Health and Tampa General Hospital discussed how they are deploying AI, as well as how they are keeping governance and the human touch at the forefront. The post How Hospitals Are Keeping Up with the Rapid Rise of AI appeared first on MedCity News.
Health tech company Visana is urging the women’s health industry to expand its focus beyond reproductive care to address broader issues like cardiometabolic health, obesity and hormonal conditions that affect the majority of women outside the family-building years. The post Why the Women’s Health Space Needs to Expand Beyond Reproductive Health appeared first on MedCity…
Para quienes tienen en su agenda de otoño vacunarse contra enfermedades respiratorias —covid, gripe y, para algunas personas, virus respiratorio sincitial (VRS) — este año puede resultar sorprendentemente normal. Después de un verano confuso, cuando las autoridades federales anunciaron cambios en las recomendaciones sobre la vacuna contra covid, que luego anularon, los Centros para el…
No es fácil promover la moderación y la disciplina financiera desde las entrañas de un casino. Pero eso es lo que los empleados estatales de Massachusetts intentan hacer a diario, entre los sonidos y las luces intermitentes de las máquinas tragamonedas. En el MGM Springfield, al oeste del estado, empleados con remeras verdes se encuentran…