It’s not low effort or underinvestment. It’s the steady-state output of an organization succeeding at the wrong thing. The post The Hidden Cost of “Good Enough” in Healthcare Experiences appeared first on MedCity News.
They are vast, deep, and nearly impossible to navigate without the right clinical lens applied on top. The real challenge facing health data platform companies and health system data teams is what to do with all of it. The post Have Healthcare Data Lakes Become “Data Swamps”? appeared first on MedCity News.
Counting hospital closures only tells part of the story, noted Duane Fitch, partner at Plante Moran. Across the country, hundreds of hospitals remain technically open while steadily shedding services their communities depend on, such as emergency care, obstetrics and psychiatric care. The post Why ‘Still Open’ Is the Wrong Way to Measure the Hospital Crisis…
Ionis Pharmaceuticals’ Tryngolza is now the first approved therapy for treating severe hypertriglyceridemia, a prevalent chronic metabolic disorder that can lead to acute pancreatitis. This drug is a key piece of Ionis’s pivot away from partnering its assets, and instead developing and commercializing them on its own. The post A Metabolic Disease Posing Severe Pancreatic…
Upside’s $20 million raise was led by Aquiline and Flare Capital Partners, with support from existing investors including 645 Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Triple Impact Capital and Techstars. The post Upside Seeks to Solve the Housing Crisis Armed with $20M Raise appeared first on MedCity News.
UnitedHealthcare CEO Tim Noel, Optum CEO Dr. Patrick Conway, and other top executives and employees gave unprecedented access to journalists and others in order to show how the company is trying to reduce friction in healthcare. The goal was to change hearts and minds. Did the insurance behemoth succeed? The post UnitedHealthcare Threw Open Its…
AI isn’t failing because it lacks capability. It’s failing because it isn’t consistently reaching the moments where decisions are made. The post Why Most Healthcare AI Fails After the Pilot Phase appeared first on MedCity News.
For years the healthcare system has relied on the slow machinery of research — and that system is failing the people it was built for. It was designed for a world that operated with an abundance of caution and lacked the modern tools of today. That world no longer exists. The post Real-Time Trials Are…
When education is incomplete, patients don’t just feel uninformed; they feel dismissed. The post Where Patient Education Breaks Down in Breast Cancer Care appeared first on MedCity News.
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