Even by rural hospital standards, Keokuk County Hospital and Clinics in southeastern Iowa is small. The 14-bed hospital, in Sigourney, doesn’t do surgeries or deliver babies. The small 24-hour emergency room is overseen by two full-time doctors. CEO Matt Ives wants to hire a third doctor, but he said finding physicians for a rural area…
The core challenge for leadership is no longer merely managing direct vendors; it’s the cascading risk of the “nth-party” supplier. The post Compliance: Why Your Vendor’s Vendor is a Growth Risk appeared first on MedCity News.
Harrowing scenes are unfolding at health facilities at the epicenter of an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A 25-year-old midwife and a doctor in his early 30s are sick with Ebola symptoms, including fevers and severe joint pain, said their colleague Elisabeth Furaha, the medical director at SOFEPADI’s Karibuni Wa Mama Medical…
Caris Life Sciences applies AI and machine learning to patient samples to detect cancer and as a companion diagnostic guiding the use of targeted cancer therapies. As a commercial-stage company, Caris’s upsized public markets debut is an outlier amid the continuing IPO freeze for clinical-stage biotechs developing new drugs. The post Precision Medicine Firm Caris…
By MICHAEL MILLENSON “Dr. Google,” the nickname for the search engine that answers hundreds of millions of health questions every day, has begun including advice from the general public in some of its answers. The “What People Suggest” feature, presented as a response to user demand, comes at a pivotal point for traditional web search…
Those that fail to adapt their workforce strategies will remain stuck in crisis mode, scrambling to fill shifts and struggling to retain nurses in the face of a nursing shortage. But for those willing to welcome change, the opportunity is immense. The post Healthcare’s Workforce Blueprint is Out Of Date. It’s Time For A Change…
Abarca Health and LucyRx plan to combine to build a larger independent PBM serving more than 9 million members. The post Abarca Health and LucyRx to Combine to Scale Independent PBM Model appeared first on MedCity News.
In the dim basement of a Salt Lake City pharmacy, hundreds of amber-colored plastic pill bottles sit stacked in rows, one man’s defensive wall in a tariff war. Independent pharmacist Benjamin Jolley and his colleagues worry that the tariffs, aimed at bringing drug production to the United States, could instead drive companies out of business…
Across all industries, the total number of companies on track to go public could make this week the most active for IPOs since 2021. Despite the partial government shutdown, there are paths biotechs can pursue to the public markets. The post The 4 Biotech Companies on Track to IPO this Week Despite the Government Shutdown…
La música triunfal suena mientras pacientes con cáncer van de campamento, hacen jardinería y ven fuegos artificiales en anuncios de Opdivo+Yervoy, una combinación de inmunoterapias para tratar el melanoma metastásico y el cáncer de pulmón. Los comerciales de Skyrizi, un medicamento para tratar la psoriasis en placas y otras enfermedades, muestran a los pacientes buceando…