Families filed nearly 23,000 federal civil rights complaints against schools in fiscal 2024, the highest number ever. That includes about 8,400 cases involving allegations of discrimination against students with disabilities, who have struggled to recover academically from the pandemic. Under federal law, public schools must provide children with disabilities a “free appropriate public education,” to…
With so much hinging on technology that is the subject of so much hype, it is important to understand where AI actually helps at present — and where it most definitely does not. The post The Truth About AI and Healthcare Payer Modernization appeared first on MedCity News.
Chikao Tsubaki had been having a terrible time. In his mid-80s, he had a stroke. Then lymphoma. Then prostate cancer. He was fatigued, isolated, not all that steady on his feet. Then Tsubaki took part in an innovative care initiative that, over four months, sent an occupational therapist, a nurse, and a handy worker to…
Amit Kapoor, M.D., M.B.A., chief nephrology officer at Strive Health, discusses recent JAMA Health Forum study that shows little impact on home dialysis or transplant rates
Employers are prioritizing mental wellbeing programs, but employees say they need financial wellbeing support, according to a survey from WTW. The post WTW: There’s A Disconnect Between Employers and Employees on Wellbeing Programs appeared first on MedCity News.
That is the question that a paper by Wong et al. (2024) aims to answer. FDA use the accelerated approval (AA) pathway to expedite the availability of drugs for serious or life-threatening conditions when a drug demonstrates an effect on a surrogate endpoint that is reasonably likely to predict clinical benefit, or on a clinical…
KFF Health News senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health Céline Gounder discussed the incoming Trump administration — notably, the possibility of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary— on the “On With Kara Swisher” podcast on Dec. 19. She also discussed the health stories that shaped 2024 on CBS on Dec….
The current wave of generative AI has captured public imagination, but we must temper our expectations. While these models demonstrate impressive capabilities in processing vast amounts of medical literature and generating coherent text, they’re far from perfect. The post Fluency Isn’t Intelligence in Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
ST. LOUIS — Voters in Missouri, Nebraska, and Alaska will soon decide whether workers in those states should be entitled to paid sick leave. If approved, the ballot measures would allow many workers to accrue paid time off, a benefit supporters say means workers — especially those with low-paying jobs — would no longer have…
By SETH JOSEPH This is part 3 of Seth’s series about Epic that has generated much interest and a little controversy and we are happy to host it on THCB. Part 1 and Part 2 were published on Forbes earlier this year. According to people in the room, Judy Faulkner’s vision on stage at Epic’s…