Clinical Research Has a Workforce Problem
Workforce shortages and manual processes are slowing trial enrollment, but technology can help health systems work smarter while keeping people at the center.
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The Code Gets You Paid — The Variant Gets You Treated
The between a code that satisfies a payer and the information a physician needs to treat a person, is what nearly every healthcare AI tool is racing past. As we push these systems toward precision medicine and genomics, that gap stops being an annoyance and becomes a patient safety issue. The post The Code Gets…
Report: Legacy Systems a Top Threat to Business Resilience
In 40 percent of attacks, threat actors threatened to physically harm executives at organizations that declined to pay a ransom demand, study states
AI-Driven Precision Care is the Fix for Our Health System’s Failures
To give patients the care they deserve and improve healthcare’s return on investment, PCPs can harness intelligent, clinically fluent AI – not to replace or override physicians or give them what tech companies think they need, but to support them in pragmatic ways. The post AI-Driven Precision Care is the Fix for Our Health System’s…
Patient Access Curator delivers $100 million boost to bottom line for Exact Sciences
“You know when the Patient Access Curator went live because you can see it in our stock price. It helped us drive a $100 million bottom-line improvement within two quarters.” —Ken Kubisty, Vice President of Revenue Cycle at Exact Sciences Challenge Exact Sciences is a prominent cancer diagnostics laboratory with an annual net revenue of…
Digital Care is Saving Patients from Costly, Unnecessary Surgeries
Digital MSK solutions are proving effective for upstream care because that’s where they start to intervene; engaging people with exercise therapy, education and nonaddictive pain relief right at the onset of their pain. The post Digital Care is Saving Patients from Costly, Unnecessary Surgeries appeared first on MedCity News.
KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: The Public’s Views on Measles Outbreaks and Misinformation
This poll looks at awareness and concern over the outbreak of measles in the U.S. and finds that a growing share of adults is encountering false claims about the measles vaccines, but many are uncertain whether these claims are true or false. Parents who lean toward believing the false claims are less likely to say…
The benefits of patient access software for healthcare providers
Improving patient access is often a heavy lift for healthcare providers thanks to staffing shortages, lack of thorough staff training, inefficient processes and more. Experian Health’s State of Patient Access 2024 survey found that curating accurate patient information also continues to be a challenge, which is the primary cause of denied claims for almost half (49%)…
Draig Therapeutics Emerges With $140M for Clinical Tests of Novel Neuropsychiatric Drugs
Draig Therapeutics’ lead drug is designed to safely target the AMPA receptor as a way of mediating the interplay between two neurotransmitters whose imbalance is associated with mood disorders. The startup is one of several that have recently raised mega rounds of financing to support programs in the clinic or entering clinical testing. The post…
Uninsured but Undaunted, a Surgical Patient Searched the Globe for a Deal
Around the end of last year, Ronmel Rangel, 63, began to feel a familiar discomfort in his lower abdomen. Twenty-five years earlier, while living in his native Venezuela, he had undergone surgery to repair a hernia on the right side of his groin. Now, the same pain had returned — on the left. This time,…