Six months after a West Virginia man died following a protracted battle with his health insurer over doctor-recommended cancer care, the state’s Republican governor signed a bill intended to curb the harm of insurance denials. West Virginia’s Public Employees Insurance Agency enrolls nearly 215,000 people — state workers, as well as their spouses and dependents….
A cyberattack on Stryker forced Boston Children’s Hospital to abandon a deeply embedded communications platform and rebuild secure messaging and voice capabilities in real time.
CareQuest Innovation Partners, Kno2 announce partnership to create a scalable pathway for dental organizations to participate in secure, bidirectional data exchange
Legacy payers have had decades to readjust their approach. Costs continue to climb, patients still face denials, and physicians remain mired in bureaucracy. It’s time to replace a system built on restrictions with one built on trust — trust in clinicians to practice medicine and in patients to make informed choices. The post Fixing Healthcare…
The future of surgery will be shaped less by what our tools can do than by how well our systems help humans think when it matters most. The question is no longer whether the OR will evolve. It’s who will lead the transition The post The Digital Imperative: Why the Future of Surgery Will Be…
Amid reports of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at hospitals and President Trump’s reversal of policy protecting “sensitive locations” like hospitals, KFF’s Health Tracking Poll finds that a majority of the public say they are concerned about the Trump administration’s actions in health care settings.
Bluestem Health, a clinic that serves low-income and uninsured patients in Lincoln, Nebraska, has lost money for the last two years. And CEO Brad Meyer fears times will soon get worse for the clinic and its 21,000 patients. That’s because Nebraska is set to become the first state to require certain Medicaid enrollees to work…
Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names. ‘The Federal Government’s Loss Is the County’s Gain’ I wanted to thank Rachana Pradhan and Katheryn Houghton for their coverage of the loss of staff at the National Institutes of Health…
Suki is one of the original Ambient scribing, now Ambient intelligence, companies. They’re selling both to providers and to other partners using their tech in their tools and services (think telehealth, other EHR providers like Athena, and more). Kevin Wang is the Chief Medical Officer, and he told me about the evolution of ambient documentation,…
It is not bringing down US prices, but delaying launches in Europe. Reuters reports: Drug launches in EU markets fell by some 35% in the 10 months since Trump’s executive order, compared with the previous 10 months…Delaying launches at lower EU prices could help secure higher U.S. prices for longer. You can read the full…