Caregivers are a backbone of serious illness care, but they cannot carry the system alone. We have reached a point where failing to support them is indistinguishable from failing patients. The post Serious Illness Care Runs on Caregivers — It’s Time to Act Like It appeared first on MedCity News.
We have to cover medical nutrition therapy for those who need it most, including Medicare beneficiaries. Almost all commercial payers are already doing this – the government needs to catch up. The post Medicare Is Covering GLP-1s – It’s Time to Cover the Care That Makes Them Sustainable appeared first on MedCity News.
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…
[Sponsored] Temperature-sensitive medications represent one of the most critical operational and regulatory challenges in modern pharmacy management. The post Best Automated Systems for Cold Chain Pharmacy Management appeared first on MedCity News.
For many organizations, the workload has become too large for manual review alone. AI and automation are stepping in, not to replace the human element, but to restore focus to it. The post The Future of Pharmacovigilance Technology: How AI and Automation Are Redefining Drug Safety appeared first on MedCity News.
As individual enrollment grows, agents must evolve to meet a more complex, consumer-driven market. The post Individual Coverage Is Reshaping Health Insurance. Agents Are the Key to Making It Work appeared first on MedCity News.