United Healthcare’s shocking quarterly earnings miss, a new regular feature on the Trump administration’s healthcare moves, and the future of value-based care. That’s the focus of the latest episode of the Debunked podcast with MedCity News Editor-in-Chief Arundhati Parmar and Samir Batra, managing partner of Health Innovation Pitch. The post Debunked Episode 15: How Did…
Startup Dimer Health offers proactive follow-ups and monitoring of patients at home to reduce the chances of patients returning to the hospital
Yuanyin “Sue” Shu is the fastest and most efficient housekeeper working at Children’s Hospital of Colorado in Colorado Springs. In an eight-hour shift, she cleans 26 occupied patient rooms, two rooms where patients have been discharged, as well as sleep rooms and other areas. But her most valued trait is her passion for children. When…
Click Therapeutics’ migraine mobile app may now be used alongside standard drug therapies as a way to prevent episodic migraine in adults. In clinical trials, daily use of the app led to a statistically significant reduction in monthly migraine days. The post Software-as-Treatment Startup Click Therapeutics Gets FDA Authorization for Migraine Mobile App appeared first…
By MATTHEW HOLT It was not so long ago that you could create one of those maps of health care IT or digital health and be roughly right. I did it myself back in the Health 2.0 days, including the old sub categories of the “Rebel Alliance of New Provider Technologies” and the “Frontier of…
Health economics and outcomes research has already started to use AI tools such as large language models (LLM) across a diverse set of study types, including systematic literature reviews (SLR), health economic modelling (HEM) and real-world evidence (RWE). In SLRs, LLMs can assist with abstract and full-text screening, bias assessment, data extraction, and automating meta-analysis…
Focusing on comprehensive strategies and embracing flexible technology solutions arms pharmacy leaders to stay ahead of industry changes, connect teams, and integrate information efficiently. The post 10 Imperatives of a Medication Intelligence System to Streamline the Pharmacy Lifecycle appeared first on MedCity News.
Tanay Tandon is CEO of Commure, which is essentially a startup conglomerate which includes the original Commure, Tanay’s company Athelas, ambient scribe Augmedix, the Strongline staff safety product, Memora Health’s workflows and more. HCA, the big for-profit chain, is one of the biggest customers and an investor in Commure. I grabbed Tanay at HIMSS earlier…
Tufts University, Kaiser Permanente and several other healthcare organizations recently launched the Food is Medicine National Network of Excellence. The network aims to develop, assess and share the best practices in the food-is-medicine space. The post What Tufts, Kaiser Permanente and Others Hope to Achieve with the Food is Medicine National Network of Excellence appeared…
ORANGEBURG, S.C. — Amari Marsh had just finished her junior year at South Carolina State University in May 2023 when she received a text message from a law enforcement officer. “Sorry it has taken this long for paperwork to come back,” the officer wrote. “But I finally have the final report, and wanted to see…