After Susannah Reed-McCullough’s husband died in 2018, she and their young daughters continued to receive health insurance through his job as a firefighter in Maryland. Then, in 2024, she got an unexpected medical bill: $377 for a checkup for one of her children the previous fall. Reed-McCullough said she called the doctor’s billing department and…
PHTI released a playbook guiding purchasers on how to implement performance-based contracts for digital health solutions, focusing on payment models, outcomes and accountability. The post PHTI: How Purchasers Can Implement Performance-Based Contracting with Digital Health Solutions appeared first on MedCity News.
Endeavor Health is studying Exact Sciences’ Cancerguard blood test to help see if multi-cancer detection should be deployed widely across hospitals. The five-year study aims to fill gaps in real-world evidence on how these tests perform and how they fit into routine healthcare. The post Can Hospitals Use Blood Tests to Catch Cancer Earlier? Endeavor…
Sterile processing work happens out of sight, yet its influence is felt in every operating room, procedural suite, and patient outcome. While often viewed as a technical function, sterile processing sits upstream from nearly every clinical decision surgeons and care teams make. Reliability in this environment does not simply support the surgical schedule—it protects patients, stabilizes operations, and preserves trust. Today’s…
Fortitude Biomedicines is developing antibody drug conjugates that use targeted protein degraders as their therapeutic payloads. The startup joins a group of degrader ADC (or DAC) developers that includes Bristol Myers Squibb and Pfizer. The post Startup Fortitude Bio Launches to Beat Drug Resistance in Cancer, Expand ADCs to Autoimmune Disease appeared first on MedCity…
Crothall Healthcare has recognized O’Connor Hospital with a Legacy Award, celebrating its nationwide top-ranking performance in environmental services (EVS). EVS professionals are the team members responsible for keeping hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, operating rooms, and all other patient care areas clean and safe by adhering to infection control procedures. In 2025, O’Connor Hospital’s year-to-year patient experience…
Cedar Gate Technologies’ Tobin Lassen describes what hospitals chosen for the mandatory model should be focusing on before facing downside risk
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By MIKE MAGEE “Hoosiers receive heroes’ welcome in return to Bloomington” screamed last week’s ESPN headline, as IU claimed top spot in college football nationwide. It’s been awhile since sports elevated that state’s mood. In his classic review of the famous movie, “The Hoosiers,” Roger Ebert writes, “This is a movie about a tiny Indiana…