Our goal should be to make lymphedema a preventable aspect of cancer survivorship or at a minimum, manageable, rather than a debilitating aftereffect that diminishes patients’ quality of life. The post Revolutionizing Breast Cancer Survivorship Care: Early Detection and Prevention of Lymphedema appeared first on MedCity News.
Boston-based startup Cascala Health raised an $8.6 million seed round to expand its AI platform for risk-bearing providers. The platform is designed to make patient care transitions safer and more efficient, as well as to help care teams spot risks earlier. The post AI Meets Care Transitions: How One Startup Is Seeking to Reduce Readmissions…
Guideline directed care pathways are a way to shift from transactional PA, where each service requires separate approval, to an episode-of-care model. The post It’s Time to Rethink Prior Authorization for Chronic and Serious Conditions appeared first on MedCity News.
As Congress debates whether to extend the temporary federal subsidies that have helped millions of Americans buy health coverage, a crucial underlying reality is sometimes overlooked: Those subsidies are merely a band-aid covering the often unaffordable cost of health care. California, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and five other states have set caps on health care spending in…
Delayed remediation and patch latency are no longer just IT and security metrics; they serve as direct reflections of leadership priorities. The post The Hidden Cost of Slow Cyber Remediation in Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
This brief describes the Managed Care Program Annual Report (MCPAR), a relatively new, comprehensive report on state Medicaid managed care programs that includes plan-level data. It is used with other managed care reports to improve state and federal managed care program monitoring, oversight, and transparency.
The latest KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust finds roughly three in ten adults report turning to social media (31%) or AI chatbots (29%) at least monthly for health information and advice. The top reasons people report turning to social media for health advice are wanting to hear from those with similar experiences…
This policy watch examines 988 on its third anniversary, drawing from the latest Lifeline data available through May 2025 and suicide death data from CDC WONDER for the period 2013 to 2023. 988 received 16.5 million contacts since its launch in July 2022, including 11.2 million calls, 2.9 million texts, and 2.4 million chats.
Benjamin Han, geriatra y especialista en adicciones de la Universidad de California-San Diego, cuenta a sus estudiantes la historia de una paciente de 76 años que, como muchas personas mayores, sufría de insomnio. “Tenía problemas para conciliar el sueño y se despertaba en mitad de la noche”, dijo. “Así que su hija le trajo unas…
Headed into a lame-duck session, the AHA requested Congress to act on key priorities for health systems before the end of 2024