Leading in healthcare when the odds are stacked against you is not about eliminating the challenges. It is about meeting them without losing sight of the reason we chose this profession in the first place. The post Leading Quality Care When The Odds Are Stacked Against You appeared first on MedCity News.
This week, the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention posted online its first large tranche of advanced genetic data from measles viruses spreading last year. Scientists with knowledge of the operation expect the agency to post heaps more in weeks to come, revealing whether the U.S. has lost its hard-won measles elimination status. The CDC…
New moms all over social media are breaking down their incredibly expensive hospital bills after giving birth. So why is giving birth so pricey in the U.S.? And given the Trump administration’s anti-abortion, pro-natalist policies, is anything on the table to make having a child more affordable? KFF Health News video producer Hannah Norman spoke…
The truth is there are ways to understand our cancer risk more precisely than we do today, and there are tools to manage it. What’s missing is awareness, access, and a system built to help us use these tools before something goes wrong. The post Why We’re Still Finding Cancer Too Late appeared first on…
A new KFF analysis finds that a congressional proposal to significantly cut federal spending on the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion could reduce total Medicaid spending by up to nearly one-fifth, or $1.9 trillion, over a 10-year period, and end Medicaid coverage for as many as 20 million people. The impacts would be felt in…More
AI solutions baked into the EHR experience could radically transform the clinical effectiveness of physicians by leveraging the richness of the longitudinal patient record, while also creating efficiencies that give them back more time to care and create more revenue. The post From Paper Charts to AI Scribes: The EHR Revolution appeared first on MedCity…
Farzad Mostashari discusses the success of the Aledade-facilitated ACOs in the MSSP
We explain the role of Medicaid for hospitals, including how much spending on hospital care comes from Medicaid, the share of births covered by the program, and how Medicaid expansion has impacted hospital finances.
With President-elect Trump returning to the White House and Republicans controlling Congress, significant changes to the Medicaid expansion are expected. This data note provides key facts on the Medicaid expansion, highlighting the financial and coverage impacts of any changes across states that voted for President-elect Trump and those that voted for Vice President Harris.
Personalized and highly-targeted therapeutics are becoming more common, making local or regional production increasingly valuable for faster patient access. This underscores how a hybrid network combining large, centralized plants coupled with flexible regional sites will define the next era of resilient biomanufacturing. The post Moving Beyond the Mega-Factory: Why the Future of Biomanufacturing is Agile,…