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[Sponsored] In an interview, Jamie Benton, vice president of HR at Rollins, talked about how he led a shift in the company’s health benefits strategy, producing $29 million in savings over a five-year period. The post Health Plan Transformation: HR Exec Shares How and Why an Employer Changed Its Approach to Healthcare appeared first on…

Novo Nordisk’s GLP-1 drug Wegovy expanded its label to include the metabolic disorder known as MASH. Analysts say there’s room for many MASH drugs with the treatment landscape expected to shape up to include combinations of therapies bringing different approaches to this fatty liver disease. The post FDA Approval Expands Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy to the…

State, federal, and academic initiatives have poured time and resources into understanding and addressing these gaps. So why haven’t we made real, lasting progress? The post The Broken Approach to Health Disparities appeared first on MedCity News.

When you combine clean data with longitudinal patient records and transparent access — that’s when you start seeing real transformation in care delivery. The post Set the Data Free: Break the Chains of Information Silos appeared first on MedCity News.

Highmark Health recently announced a partnership with AI technology company Abridge to deploy its ambient clinical documentation platform across Allegheny Health Network and co-develop a new prior authorization solution. The post Highmark Health, Abridge Partner to Scale AI for Payers/Providers appeared first on MedCity News.

Antares Therapeutics spun off of Scorpion Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotech that Eli Lilly acquired earlier this year. Like Scorpion, Antares is developing small molecules that go after undruggable targets in cancer. The post Cancer Drug Startup Antares Unveils $177M to Pick Up Where Scorpion Therapeutics Left Off appeared first on MedCity News.

For community hospitals, it’s a sign of the need for a different approach to patient financial communication and payment — one that meets patients where they are and protects their dignity while avoiding undue stress on the organization’s bottom line.  The post Plummeting Patient Collection Rates Call for a New Approach to Hospital Payment appeared…

Quest Diagnostics teamed up with Google Cloud. The collaboration seeks to deliver new AI capabilities — including predictive population health analytics, customized physician results reporting and individualized patient engagement. The post Quest Diagnostics Strikes Generative AI Partnership with Google Cloud appeared first on MedCity News.