Healthcare cannot achieve its goals for quality, equity, and value without breaking down the persistent barriers that keep critical information siloed across sectors. The post The Next Frontier of Interoperability: Additional Clinical Data Sources – Dentistry, Devices, Social Care, and More appeared first on MedCity News.
As summer ushers in peak mosquito season, health and vector control officials are bracing for the possibility of another year of historic rates of dengue. And with climate change, the lack of an effective vaccine, and federal research cuts, they worry the disease will become endemic to a larger swath of North America. About 3,700…
This brief summarizes recent and proposed actions by states related to access to state-funded health coverage and other services for immigrants and immigration enforcement activity during the 2025 and 2026 state legislative sessions.
Healthcare workers are already navigating issues with lack of interoperability between systems, staff and providers, and concerns about patient data privacy and security. IT teams and healthcare systems can alleviate some anxiety by giving workers the best performing digital user experience, including physicians and other staff that share responsibility for patient care. The post Healthcare…
Suicide deaths fell slightly from their peak of 49,476 deaths in 2022 to 48,824 deaths in 2024, but trends by suicide method diverged: suicides by other means declined while firearm suicides reached their highest level and accounted for 57% of all suicides (up from 50% in 2014).
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Value-based care contracting is especially difficult for behavioral health providers, Taft Parsons III, chief psychiatric officer at CVS Health/Aetna, pointed out during a conference this week. The post Aetna Exec: Payers Need to Stop Making Behavioral Health Providers Jump Through Hoops In Order to Participate in Value-Based Care appeared first on MedCity News.
Speaking at WEDI spring conference, new HL7 leader talks about alignment with CMS goals
Authored by KFF’s Alina Salganicoff, Ivette Gomez, and Usha Ranji, this article for The Milbank Quarterly examines how state policies create varying levels of access to reproductive healthcare services.
From AI to value-based care, three VCs shared their controversial takes on healthcare during a recent panel discussion at the MedCity INVEST conference. The post 3 Health Investors Share Their Most Controversial Industry Takes appeared first on MedCity News.