Medicine

Despite the widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHR) over the last couple of decades, essential patient information often gets trapped within the walls of individual hospital systems. Here’s a potential solution. The post Designing a National-Scale FHIR API Ecosystem Using Apigee: Architecture Patterns for Secure Healthcare Interoperability appeared first on MedCity News.

Disagreements between providers and payers have been moving into the courtroom over the past few weeks. The California Hospital Association sued Anthem over one of its out-of-network policies, Broward Health sued Florida Blue over alleged underpayment, and Jefferson Health sued Aetna over a Medicare Advantage hospital stay rule. The post Provider-Payer Tensions Brew in Courtrooms:…

Parsley Health is now in-network with major insurers nationwide, including UnitedHealthcare, Aetna and Cigna. The post Parsley Health Wins Greater Insurance Coverage for its Functional Medicine appeared first on MedCity News.

Madrigal Pharmaceuticals has licensed rights to an Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals small-interfering RNA therapy designed to address a particular genetic mutation associated with the fatty liver disease MASH. It’s Madrigal’s fourth business development deal of the past year and the company’s second one involving siRNA therapies. The post Madrigal Pharma Adds Another Genetic Medicine to Its Drug…

If AI is going to be used in MSK care — or any area of healthcare — it needs clear, non-negotiable rules around it. The post How I Learned To Trust AI as a Physical Therapist appeared first on MedCity News.

For years, the central question was whether value-based care could work at all. Today, evidence from kidney care moves us beyond that debate. The more urgent questions are who can scale these models effectively and whether the system will sustain what’s working long enough for it to endure.  The post Kidney Care Is Value‑Based Care’s…

The path to scalable AI in healthcare will not be defined by a single breakthrough or technology. It will be shaped by the industry’s ability to address the foundational challenges that have existed for decades. The post Healthcare Doesn’t Have an AI Problem — It Has a Readiness Problem appeared first on MedCity News.

A proposed merger between Atrium Health and WakeMed Health is facing an early delay, with county commissioners having postponed a key vote over transparency concerns. State officials are warning the deal could hurt competition and drive up healthcare costs in the Raleigh area. The post Is the Atrium-WakeMed Merger Already Hitting a Wall? appeared first…

Candid Therapeutics brings to UCB two clinical-stage T cell engagers in development for autoimmune disorders. To accept UCB’s offer, Candid terminated its reverse merger with Rallybio. The post UCB Joins the Chase for Immune System Reset With $2B Acquisition appeared first on MedCity News.

EHRs not only document care but can also act as a financial engine to bridge the gap between patient care and prompt reimbursement. Here’s how to bring the two sides together to alleviate tedious administrative burdens. The post Why EHRs Are Critical to Effective Revenue Cycle Management appeared first on MedCity News.